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I can't believe you if I can't hear you Editors – Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
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Here, Smith takes one parting shot at God. He confesses to being an empiricist – he can’t believe in something unless he has evidence for it.
God doesn’t seem to have “heard” Smith’s prayer in the chorus. This makes it harder again for Smith.
Our broken hearts left smashed on the floor Editors – Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
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'Cause you stopped us from singing? Editors – Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
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The singer is pleading for “someone” to turn him around, to put him back on track. But he knows deep down that no other person is capable of doing this for him. We have to change ourselves, find the courage to change what we cannot accept. This is far easier said than done. Like the “smokers outside the hospital doors” we are faced with the logical consequences of our actions, habits, and behaviours time and time again. Tragically we all too often fail to see the light, hence why the “smokers outside the hospital doors” are the saddest thing he’d ever seen. Our persistent failure to enact change in ourselves is one of the great tragedies of human experience. Destined to play out over and over again.
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen were smokers outside the hospital doors Editors – Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
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You are not gonna see them ever again Editors – Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
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Death beckons, so he gathers family/friends to bid his last farewell.
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The video of this song goes hand in hand with the overall theme which according to its directors, Siggi Kinski and Stefán Árni was based the video on a bad childhood experience of a hospital.
The irony prevalent in the title also follows through in the first few lines. These lines paint a picture of someone whose sight is gone thanks to some sort of illness (possibly on his/her death bed too). This illness also would most likely have been ignorantly self inflicted hence why the said person has to pull a “blindfold” down.
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