Soon Lyrics
Don't fear
I want to
Love you
Yeah don't go there
I let you get to me
Yeah yeah
Don't be
Afraid of me
Soon
That (I'll harm you)
Your eyes are blue
Blue jewels
Yeah yeah
Come back
Have faith
Someone like you
Can find the reason
Of what I did to you
Yeah yeah
Don't fear
I want to
Love you
Yeah don't go there
I let you get to me
Yeah yeah
What an amazing, amazing song. I think this song has to do with one person being wary and uncertain about love, while the other is surrendering themself completely to the other with no fear. The euphoric sound of this song has a very rushing, "rollercoaster" feel to it, so I picture this relationship in the song being just that...an emotional rollercoaster. In that context, notice how sparse the happier, lilting parts are from each other in between those wide, disorienting squalls of noise. Just magnificent.
whoaaaaa...
the backwards drum track, the clean guitar, the wicked little synthy-bit (which reminds me of spyro the dragon for some reason, heh)..
& then, the collision with that wave of white noise..
whoa.
I disagree with bocmaxima, I think this song fits perfectly and is a great album ender. It feels so geometrical and ethereal, and the way it fades out at the end is perfect. This is my favorite song on Loveless.
Greatest ending soon ever.......its just fits so perfectly....like it is suppose to be there....ya know
It is curious that no comments address the rather dark lyrics to this song - or even comment on the lyrics at all. Perhaps that's because they are rather hard to hear and that the lyrics available online are not entirely accurate. For example, in Soon, I don't hear 'have faith' or 'doll of pain'.
The pace of delivery of the song's vocals sound like someone making a confession, or perhaps composing a letter, one hesitant word at a time. Imagine someone telling you:
'Someone like you Can find the reason Of what I did to you'
I hope your response would be to stay away! It sounds from the hearable lyrics that this has already happened, with the 'you' being summoned back. It's up to the listener to decide what 'did to you' means but the 'to you' suggests it wasn't 'with you'... an ugly situation, but the narrator is not issuing a 'please forgive me' message.
I hear Soon it as the lyrical follow up to When You Sleep on the same album, eg
'And I'll sleep tomorrow And it won't be long'
…from When You Sleep pairs with Soon's
'Wake Up'
and
'Afraid of me, soon'
…from Soon.
Also:
'Your eyes are blue' / 'Your long blonde hair'
…also seem to pair up.
A key question is what the narrator means by 'Wake up'. Does he mean 'please see sense' or literally to stop sleeping? If the two songs are paired, it might feel like the second interpretation is more likely, simply she is sleeping. But why then say 'come back'? She is either there or she isn't. The dark interpretation I made (back in 1992!) was that she has been killed and that 'wake up, come back' means 'come back to life'… the narrator can't accept she is dead.
'When you sleep tomorrow And it won't be long'
…hence the title 'Soon'. Long term fans of the band know what MBV mean by 'soon'. When you say it's going to happen soon, when exactly do you mean?
It was interesting (for me, anyway) to see that the first song on the album MBV, 20 years later was called 'She Found Now' and this song lyrically seems to follow up questions raised by Soon:
'You come home You come back and see I woke up
I wonder how that you find out You wonder how that you found out
You could You could You could'
i totally hear spyro in there!! shit that brings back old memories
This album and this music reminds me of my home city Melbourne, Australia. I also reminds of my best friends. Loveless is truly a great album with such a unique sound. Why did My Bloody Valentine have to break up? They were such a good band.
My favorite "Loveless" track seems to endlessly shift, though it now lies here on "Soon". As far as the song lyrics, I'm pretty uncertain, but the music, or rather noise, is terribly hypnotic. And you're right, nirado, it does fit perfectly as the end. I'm reminded of something every time I hear this song, too, but I can't be sure it's Spyro.
dunno about anything else but this song makes me want to fucking dance
I've heard better lyrics, but I've never heard a more perfect sounding song.