Name: Me-shaped Box
Duration: 8 min 32 s
Channel: Harrigan/Gold
Description: "Me-shaped Box" is a song by The Strang Quartet.

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The Strang Quartet

Eclectic, intelligent rock-driven tunes with big guitars and more than a hint of electronica give us a sound unlike any other band.

The Strang Quartet formed (officially) in Cambridge UK in 2003, consisting of long-time friends Martin (guitars and vocals) and Julian (drums, keyboards, guitars and production). Our mission statement: to make deep, meaningful, noisy sounds for the delectation of ourselves and others.

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Progressive Rock

Charts

Peak #346

Peak in subgenre #35

Author

Harrigan/Gold

Rights

Strang Quartet

Uploaded

October 20, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 7.8 MB • 128 kbps • 8:32

Story behind the song

A song about being misunderstood and unable to communicate the "real" "me" inside. Which is most of us, right?

Lyrics

there's a beautiful guy trapped in a me-shaped box
he wants warm sunlight on his skin
but the walls just hold the poor man in
there's a happy guy living in a me-shaped box
he smiles but it comes out diluted
he laughs but it's all convoluted

and inside the war does rage
and though he'd like to turn the page
there's no way out there's no way through
I shout and shout I can't reach you

there's a friendly guy living in a me-shaped box
the force field keeping you at bay
the space between won't go away
there's a decent guy living in a me-shaped box
that obscures the love and good intent
that twists the sense of what I meant

and outside the world doth pass decree
and inside I swear it wasn't me
there's no way out there's no way through
I shout and shout I can't reach you

there's a young go getter in a me shaped box
but it looks so old and battered and worn
the palest shadow of when I was born
I open my mouth - it's like someone else talks
can't say the things I want to say
can't seize the moment, it slips away

and somewhere the truth is hiding
but somehow the lies are overriding
there's no way out there's no way through
I shout and shout I can't reach you

life it moulds you
life it shapes you
maybe it makes you
maybe it rapes you
down on your knees
but head - held - high

this shell... is disintegrating
it's taking me with it on its way down
undergoing implosion in slow motion
this shell... is gonna drown
it's not me
it was never me
it was my brilliant disguise
the one I came to despise