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- Hummingbird Lyrics / with translationsHis goal in life was to be an echo
Riding alone, town after town, toll after toll
A fixed bayonet through the great southwest to forget her
She appears in his dreams
But in his car and in his arms
A dream can mean anything
A cheap sunset on a television set can upset her
But he never could
Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird
His goal in life was to be an echo
The type of sound that floats around and then back down
Like a feather
But in the deep chrome canyons of the loudest Manhattans
No one could hear him
Or anything
So he slept on a mountain
In a sleeping bag underneath the stars
He would lie awake and count them
And the gray fountain spray of the great Milky Way
Would never let him
Die alone
Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird
Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird
A hummingbird
A hummingbird
Riding alone, town after town, toll after toll
A fixed bayonet through the great southwest to forget her
She appears in his dreams
But in his car and in his arms
A dream can mean anything
A cheap sunset on a television set can upset her
But he never could
Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird
His goal in life was to be an echo
The type of sound that floats around and then back down
Like a feather
But in the deep chrome canyons of the loudest Manhattans
Or anything
So he slept on a mountain
In a sleeping bag underneath the stars
He would lie awake and count them
And the gray fountain spray of the great Milky Way
Would never let him
Die alone
Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird
Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird
A hummingbird
A hummingbird
Facts about Hummingbird
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Hummingbird is written by Jeffrey Scot Tweedy.
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It is first released on June 21, 2004 as part of Wilco's album "A Ghost Is Born" which includes 12 tracks in total. This song is the 4th track on this album.
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When we focus on what the lyrics are trying to say, the Sweetheart's 'Hummingbird' is a musical dive into the worlds of yearning and reminiscing; just the metaphor 'his life goal was to be an echo' captures perfectly the notion of connecting people and of being remembered. The painterly depiction of a hummingbird stands for momentary events and the craving to shine out in the tumults of existence. The themes of the song are mainly reflection, solitude, angst, heartache and nostalgia. Simultaneously, it is about the significance of the one-sided love, memory and yearning, isolation and solitude and the quest for meaning. The lyrics bear some abstract and poetic imagery that might be difficult for very young kids without parents' help to grasp and enjoy fully. The themes and the vocabulary are not explicitly adult or inappropriate, but the intricacy and the abstractness of the matter point to a PG rating.
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Hummingbird falls under the genre Rock.
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Hummingbird song length is 3 minutes and 07 seconds.
Who wrote Hummingbird lyrics?
Hummingbird is written by Jeffrey Scot Tweedy.
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When was Hummingbird released?
It is first released on June 21, 2004 as part of Wilco's album "A Ghost Is Born" which includes 12 tracks in total. This song is the 4th track on this album.
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What is the meaning behind Hummingbird lyrics?
When we focus on what the lyrics are trying to say, the Sweetheart's 'Hummingbird' is a musical dive into the worlds of yearning and reminiscing; just the metaphor 'his life goal was to be an echo' captures perfectly the notion of connecting people and of being remembered. The painterly depiction of a hummingbird stands for momentary events and the craving to shine out in the tumults of existence. The themes of the song are mainly reflection, solitude, angst, heartache and nostalgia. Simultaneously, it is about the significance of the one-sided love, memory and yearning, isolation and solitude and the quest for meaning. The lyrics bear some abstract and poetic imagery that might be difficult for very young kids without parents' help to grasp and enjoy fully. The themes and the vocabulary are not explicitly adult or inappropriate, but the intricacy and the abstractness of the matter point to a PG rating.
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Which genre is Hummingbird?
Hummingbird falls under the genre Rock.
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How long is the song Hummingbird?
Hummingbird song length is 3 minutes and 07 seconds.
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Songwriter(s): Jeffrey Scot TweedyRecord Label(s): 2004 Nonesuch Records
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