"Words are blunt instruments, Words are a sawed-off shotgun" -Radiohead
Someone asked me what this song meant one time, and I really couldn't answer at first. I thought up something really interesting though, and I really liked it I guess. Sooooo, just to elaborate on it a little more, I believe the song is about love. It's about the moments before everything gets sloppy, and when things are just perfect in anticipation of events to come with a new potential lover. A night someone has never experienced yet can sometimes be the night they never forget. Where it says "before" this and "before" that. To me, it plays on how we appreciate the game so much, and how the catch is a lot more fun than actually maintaining what you've received. For example, the discrepancy between hooking up and getting married.
Also, i would like to amend some of the lyrics. it's not "you've got a cheshire cat grin" it's "WE'VE got a cheshire cat grin" hence the "all blurring into one" line afterwards. I used a piece of software called "roni slow-me-down" for winamp to listen to the song at a slower pace and it is DEFINITELY "we've" and not "you've". To me, this dramatically changes the emphasis of the situation present. Somebody please listen to the new studio version and try to figure out if it's We've or You've because it's been driving me nuts. Also, the line "Before you start unravelling" is not in the studio version either, it is replaced with "Before you're lost between the notes" and the next line is "just as you take the mic". The rest of the song is ok. but i feel like i've listened to it enough times now as it is my favorite song, but everyone seems to get that one lyric backwards about the cheshire cat grin.
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