I'll see what you want me to see
Through rose-colored glasses
I can't see the blood in my hand
Now you're over, you're so over
All over my head
I pray to God I find my way
Back to something familiar
Please tear me from this contraband
Now it's over, it's so over
It's under my bed

The painting's worn bare
Your eyes have started fading
Were they ever even really there
Nothing to give with everything you take
The cracks in your smile make it impossible
To decipher something legible
Your porcelain face and a heart of glass

No time for dependency
We're going over at light speed
No scenery to stimulate
Something older, we grow older
But nothing ever seems to change
I pray to God you lose your way
You're something peculiar
On one leg only I'll still take a stand
I fall over, a tall order
These *** I need to rearrange

The painting's worn bare
Your eyes have started fading
Were they ever even really there
Nothing to give with everything you take
The cracks in your smile make it impossible
To decipher something legible
Your porcelain face and a heart of glass

The painting's worn bare
Your eyes have started fading
Were they ever even really there
Nothing to give with everything you take
The cracks in your smile make it impossible
To decipher something legible
Your porcelain face and a heart of glass
A heart of glass
A heart of glass

*** There are a wide variety of words that different lyrics websites have here: times, terms, dolls, drawers... Some don't even try to decipher that word just have (???) there, lol.

"The cracks in your smile make it impossible
To decipher something legible"

"On one leg only I'll still take a stand
I fall over, a tall order"


I mean, really David? Could you be any more amazing with your use of words?

^ I know! I don't even know how he manages to get through singing this song without getting tongue-tied! It would be interesting to see it on the solo tour. By interesting, I mean I would love to watch him sing the dictionary like that, so I can run and jump him.
Is this man for real?

Ahhh he writes amazing lyrics! I wish i could expressed the sadness, the angst, the pain, as good as he does on his lyrics...

Your eyes have started fading
Were they ever even really there
Nothing to give with everything you take

Ok, I just had someone burn me a copy of Analog Heart, the real one from Amazon, and I think I've been listening to low quality versions of the songs this whole time. Cause this song especially sounded different and much clearer to me.

Sooooo...... you're telling me that this album is even MORE amazing than I thought it was, for like a year now?




Um, the same goes for Stitches. Holy crap. And The Truth. *runs over to The Truth thread*

Okay I know what you mean now. When I downloaded AH back in the day (ha), the quality of some of the songs were not very good. Especially Porcelain. But then I downloaded a different version, and it was like hearing them all for the first time. The Truth, Silver, they all sounded better, IMO. Also, the old Porcelain was a bit longer, because it had some added music in the beginning. Did you notice that?

Yay for non shitty sound!

I think I noticed that some of them had some added music at the beginning and end, yeah. Holy shit. This is kind of hilarious... Yeah they definitely sound better.

Wow, I was listening to ghetto Analog Heart this whole time Is there anywhere where the good versions are available to download? Like on a forum or something? I still don't have "good" FBIM. It was left off by accident I think.

I remember listening to KCradio.com once and he played "good" The Truth, and I was like "Ummmm...... did that sound different/better to anybody else?" And they were all like

Oh god... This is so funny...

Isn't it weird that it could be better than you already thought it was? LOL.

Here's where I got them:

4shared.com 4shared.com/dir/10457188/45ba8ddd/David_Cook_-_Analog_Heart_REUPLOADED.html

As my first foray into the Music & Lyrics section... let me just say that THIS is tied with "Let Go" as my favorite Analog Heart song. Seriously, the man's ability to pen lyrics is astounding.

"The painting's worn pale
Your eyes have started fading
Were they ever even really there
Nothing to give with everything you take
The cracks in your smile make it impossible
To decipher something legible
Your porcelain face and a heart of glass"

I never knew there was such a poetic way to call someone a fake, phoney bitch.

This is my all-time favorite Analog song. Thats it.

The thing I love about this song is that even through a recording, you can tell by the gruffness and harshness in his voice that he's singing about some lying bitch that he is so bitter towards.

Okay, so I heard an interesting interpretation of this song on another board a long time ago and I thought I'd share it with you all.

The key words that prompted this interpretation are "contraband" and "under my bed." What sort of "contraband" does a young man keep beneath his mattress? That leads to the idea that the chorus is describing a worn photograph of someone he's um... looked at... every night, and the photo also represents his memories of the real her he used to know but now she's just a fantasy.

^That makes a lot of sense, Stacy, but... Ewwww.

Hahaha yeah! The "fuck you bitch" song! Love it!

Just listened to Porcelain on the drive home. And I realized I never gave props to how incredible the music is in it. I'm in love with the guitar solo before the last chorus. Holy shit Neal!!

i always thought he said :

these drums i need to rearrange.


the lyric made sense to me because he mentioned his song writing or musicality in a lot of songs ei:

from stitches:

I try holding on to the same old song
Just because of a brand new verse

Then keep holding on to the same tired song
'cause from here it will only get worse

silver:

This song is so out of key
I'm trying harder just to even
These memories of you
A warning sign of regression
The kind you never learn from
This song is the melody
Meant to show you a little more than
A better history, an open sky
Of redemption
The kind you always burn from

those are the two i think of off the top of my head. so that is why i thought the lyric was him needing to rearrage the drums.

edit: im convinced now this is correct. just lisnted to it in the car on the way home from work and after he says 'these drums i need to rearrange' u hear a little mini drum solo to accompany the lyric!

Okay, I fucking love this song. His voice is so gruff, and throaty, and angry at the beginning. It's hot.

I think the *** is drums. I've always heard drums, and even when I try to hear something else, it's always drums.

"These drums I need to rearrange."

I always see this line as David pulling himself out of the song for a second and saying "Crap, I need to fix the drums here."

I also hear "The paint has worn pale" instead of "The painting's worn pale" but it's hard to differentiate.

yeah glad u hear drums too. thought i was the only one as i was trying to explain it a few posts up.

FU song???? hahaha good one. so, maybe if I ever get into a bad fight I just sing that to whoever I'm nad at. lol Sound a lot more polite.