Hide And Seek lyrics

i dnt believe in analysing music... cant u just say its beautiful if u think its beautiful? lol well ttyl im in skewl

I believe this song written to a lover who is already married. She refers to the oily marks left from hanging pictures of the happy family of pleasure moments. The dust is settleing from the affair. He says they were here first refering to his wife and family and she asks him, what did she say... his wife when she found out. They have to play hide and seek about their affair. just my take on it :)

I really think it's about the holocaust too, i didn't think so before but just recently i read elie wiesels Night (about the experience of a young boy in a concentration camp) and i just happened to be listening to Imogens album at around the same time...and click..it made perfect sense, and is now so haunting. Or if it is not it fits so perfectly

Where are we?
What the hell is going on?
The dust has only just begun to form crop circles in the carpet,
Sinking... Feeling...
Spin me 'round again and rub my eyes;
This can't be happening.
When busy streets a mess with people
Would stop to hold their heads heavy

*This part to me seems like they have had to leave their homes in a hurry, they dont know where they are being taken and what the hell is happening, also there is disbelief that the streets are still full of people who see what is going on and are allowing this to happen

Hide and Seek (hunting down Jews)
Trains and sewing machines ( being transported by trains , sent to work camps)
All those years;
They were here first. (could mean many things, the people that were there first the machines that were there first)The people that were there before in the camps that are now dead etc)

Oily marks appear on walls
Where pleasure moments hung before the takeover,
The sweeping insensitivity of this still life
* the takeover of the jewish people, the sweeping insensitivity what could be more insensitive you know

Hide and Seek
Trains and sewing machines (Oh, you won't catch me around here)
Blood and tears (huh) they were here first.

Mm what you say
Oh that you only meant well, well of course you did (they were telling them it was for their own good that it would be better off for the jews)
Mm what you say
Mm that it's all for the best, of course it is
Mm what you say
Hmm that IT'S JUST-a-what we need, you decided this (we, you)
Mm what you say
Hmm what did she say?

Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut outs (paper word cut outs)
Speak no feeling no I don't believe you (I don't buy it)
You don't care a bit, you don't care a bit

Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth (Hide and Seek)
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut outs
Speak no feeling no I don't believe you (Hide and Seek)
You don't care a bit, you don't care a bit

You don't care a bit (Hide and Seek)
You don't care a bit, no
You don't care a bit
Mm, no, you don't care a bit
You don't care a bit
You don't care a bit
*i think this is just saying you know basicly they kiddnapped them, they had no choice, they are telling them false lies and promises but obviously it was all lies

the first time i heard this song i thought of the hard situation of workers in the 18th century (the first time of industrialization in the history).
but I'm sure that this song is about the holocaust. it's a really good song

I am on a dance troupe and we are doing this song. The choreographer dedicated this to 9/11 and the victims of that day. I think that really fits, but I can also see the Holocaust connection in it.