You were a child
Crawling on your knees toward it
Making momma so proud,
But your voice is too loud
We like to watch you laughing,
You pick the insects off plants
No time to think of consequences [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/m/mgmt/kids.html ]
[Chorus:]
Control yourself
Take only what you need from it
A family of trees wanted
To be haunted
[Repeat chorus]
The water is warm
But its sending me shivers
A baby is born
Crying out for attention
The memories fade
Like looking through a fogged mirror
Decision to decisions are made
And not bought,
But I thought this wouldnt hurt a lot.
I guess not
"like looking through a fogged mirror" --because you are old trying to remember
"decision to decisions are made" --its easy to decide things when you are younger
"and not bought," --self explanatory
"but i thought this wouldnt hurt a lot. " --everyone thinks growing up would be easy when you are a kid
"i guess not" --but it definitly is not easy growing up
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by Unregistered on Feb 2nd 2012 3:57 pm
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When you were a child you didn't think of the consequences. Learn from you'r mistakes and memories might come back so just be careful.
by Unregistered on Jan 29th 2012 8:27 pm
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What i took into consideration of these lyrics is that when the world is falling apart, and mom and dad are wanting the best for you, they’re focusing on your happiness rather than scaring you with what’s happening all over the world. This child is content due to the presence of both of his parents making him laugh, so that when he grows up and looks back to this very moment; he’ll see how happy he use to be, how the world was perfectly at ease referring to the fact that his parents gave him no sign or note that the world is being destroyed by the generation of kids and the decisions and choices that were previously being made. When we make wrong decisions thinking they’re right decisions, we don’t tend to notice how they’re affecting those around us; like family or friends for example. The choices we make affect not only those around us, but also the population of people and the destruction of the next generation that will eventually set foot in this earth like we have. The more destruction we make, and the wrong decisions we make for ourselves are killing the earth and possessing people to do such inadequate things . Eventually, if everyone keeps doing harm, the world’s going to end with more tragic and unfortunate events that have already took place.
by Unregistered on Jan 9th 2012 6:09 pm
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You will never understand it unless you visit lucy.
by Unregistered on Jan 8th 2012 4:49 pm
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Think ths song its about life and death , "u were a child , making ur momma so proud ! Then u start to growing up "we like to watch you laughing,
you pick the insects off plants
no time to think of consequences = u don't think about what's going to happen u just enjoying ur days as a child... Take only what you need from it = i think he means take only what life gaves u .. A family of trees wanted to be haunted = we going to die anyway and at the end of the day we only going to haunted our own family tree (like our great-grandparents... The memories fade
like looking through a fogged mirror = life's is nothing , we all going to be forgotten and our memories will disa
by Unregistered on Dec 21st 2011 2:59 pm
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The giving tree. Google it. Tree that gives the kid everything it can, including its own life because it loves the tree. Kid's needs seem petty, but the kid's happiness means everything to the tree, more that its own self. Control yourself, take only what you need from it. Our parent are the giving tree.
by Unregistered on Dec 10th 2011 2:32 pm
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I think its about letting go of feelings and sharing close memories and stories with the ones you love the most.
by Unregistered on Dec 7th 2011 9:26 am
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I think he was watching a kid,maybe his kid or someone else's,and it made him nostalgic for his childhood when everything was simpler
by Unregistered on Dec 5th 2011 5:42 pm
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I know it because i lived it. This song tells the story of life. You are born. U are quite innocent but predestined to get polluted to become a monster.
I have relived some of my experiences from childhood and felt strange needles on my body.
When i went deeper into the song i felt that again. I started crying and realised that it tells about what happened to all of us.
This world frightened us to death. And we started to defending. We lost innocence. The perspective of the child is the perspective of a tortured person, of a victim. We all have that part in our psyche. That is why we cry, that is the root of many negative feelings - running away from that fear. And its horrible fear, i felt it and i couldnt do anything about it. The most sad part is that u are unable to deal with it, and most people dont know that they run from bad feelings from the past.
The band is in the role of an observer, someone who tells the story, thats why they dont look like monsters. Mother is the only support for a child, and she becomes a better person when her child is around so she isn't a monster neither.
Also, the song is a horror. Terrible horror.
I fell it may not be all, help me discover more.
by Unregistered on Dec 2nd 2011 1:04 am
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It's about watching your children grow up. How they are young and when they age you want them to haunt your life. You think that you can let them go but its harder to watch them forget about you as they enter adulthood.
I think these lyrics are deeper than most of what you folks are saying. These are about how we start out innocent and fearless when we're young. As we get older, we learn about and reap consequences. We make decisions easily, not knowing of the consequences, not realizing how much the long-term consequences and effects will eventually hurt us in life. As we suffer the effects of our choices, we should learn to control ourselves -- our anger, our hurt -- to learn from our poor choices and mistakes, and to "take only what we need from it. " everything seems "warm" and innocent (baby) in the beginning, but that warm water gets colder as we get older. All we can do is learn as we get older because everything is "haunted" and grows more haunted. A baby born is destined to be haunted in this life.