You're In Your Hands

Posted about 3 years ago

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Vertical Horizon

I might have already posted on this, because I spend a great deal of time thinking about the 90's classic Everything You Want by Vertical Horizon . I'd never really listened to the lyrics though . All these years I only paid attention to the chorus which appears to be coming from the P.O.V. of the girl's homely, helpful male friend giving some advice, which is really the only value of homely people when you think about it:

He's everything you want
He's everything you need
He's everything inside of you
That you wish you could be
He says all the right things
At exactly the right time
But he means nothing to you
And you don't know why

Listen a little closer and there's poetic magic in there, Hello..:

You howl and listen
Listen and wait for the
Echoes of angels who won't return

And some less magical, angelic parts. This is the real stuff. Relationships have their gross moments

But under skinned knees and the skid marks

Adviceboy returns, though, and he's sincere:

You're waiting for someone
To put you together
You're waiting for someone to push you away
There's always another wound to discover
There's always something more you wish he'd say

As do the angels, who are no longer echoing, but also angry. The drama!:

Out of the island (Maybe the dude in question is Dennis Haysbert ?)
Into the highway
Past the places where you might have turned
You never did notice
But you still hide away
The anger of angels who won't return

But all that superior poetry is just smoke and mirrors for the mind-blowing, Sixth Sense ending:

I am everything you want
I am everything you need
I am everything inside of you
That you wish you could be
I say all the right things
At exactly the right time
But I mean nothing to you and I don't know why
And I don't know
why
Why
I don't know

BOOM! He was talking about himself all along . Poor Dennis Haysbert. I had no idea.

Vertical Horizon: Everything You Want.mp3

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