| Recovering The Satellites From "Recovering The Satellites" Gonna get back to basics Guess I'll start it up again I'm falling from the ceiling You're falling from the sky now and then Maybe you were shot down in pieces Maybe I slipped in between But we were gonna be the wildest- The wildest- the wildest people They ever hoped to see Yeah you and me So why'd you come home To this faithless town? It's a lifetime committment To recovering the satellites All anybody really wants to know is: When are you gonna come down? When you gonna come down? Your mother recognizes All your desperate displays And she watches as her babies Drift violently away To see themselves in telescopes Hey listen, do you see yourself in me? We're such crazy babies, little monkey Yeah we're so fucked up, you and me So why'd you come home To this faithless town Where we make a lifetime committment To recovering the satellites And all anyone really wants to know is: When are you gonna come down, down, Down, down, down, down When you gonna come down? She sees shooting stars and comet tails She's got heaven in her eyes She says, "I don't, I don't, I don't need to be an angel but I'm nothing-I'm nothing If I'm not this high We only stay in orbit For a moment of time You're everybody's satellite I wish that you were mine And I wish that you were mine So why'd you come home To this angel's town? It's a lifetime's decision- Recovering the satellites And all anybody really knows for sure Is that you're gonna come down |
| This song to me is about this guy and girl. She's come back from her latest attempt at finding herself and failing miserably. I think they have a past, although it's unclear to me in the song. But he wants her to stay- desperately. He wants her need to get out of that place and find another life to disappear. And he wants her to set her sights on him. However they both know that's not going to happen. So he wants to know: "Why'd you come home?" Was it just to torture me? Was the only reason you came home to parade yourself around me and remind me of what I can't have? What happened to the plans we had- yeah you and me? So she leaves and he knows it's only a matter of time before she comes back again to find out where she went wrong- to recover. I identify with this song in that I've put myself in positions to be tortured by what I can't have in the past. Wanting what I know I can't have, putting my soul through the wringer. Whether it was the love I lamented for four years or one of my best friends who I knew would never leave her dysfunctional relationship, I have believed when I shouldn't have and held on when the smart thing was to let go. And in doing that have brought more hurt upon myself than anyone could ever lay on me. But the character in the song keeps believing- "all anyone really knows is that you're gonna come down"- meaning that she'll come back again, and he'll be there to pick up the pieces, put her back together, and watch her disappear into the air again. |