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Incubus - Under My Umbrella

Incubus - Under My Umbrella Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Morning View
Released: 2001

Under My Umbrella Lyrics

When I close my eyes
I can see for miles
There's comfort in my dark seat
And chaos in the aisles

These eyes are not your eyes
And these eyes are not the color that
Your arid eyes might be
No, I was not around
When those eyes of yours decided so
I refuse to kneel before the
Sights you choose to see

When I close my eyes
I remember why I smile
Under My Umbrella
I'm an accomplished exile

These eyes are not your eyes
And these eyes are not the color that
Your arid eyes might be
No, I was not around
When those eyes of yours decided so
I refuse to kneel before the sights you choose to see!

If this is right, I'd rather be wrong
If this is sight, I'd rather be blind

These eyes are not your eyes
And these eyes are not the color that
Your arid eyes might be
No, I was not around
When those eyes of yours decided so
I refuse to kneel before the sights you choose to see!

If this is right, I'd rather be wrong
If this is sight, I'd rather be blind

Writer/s: Boyd, Brandon Charles / Einziger, Michael Aaron / Katunich, Alex / Kilmore, Christopher E / Pasillas Ii, Jose Anthony
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Under My Umbrella

This song tells you to be your own person. You decide what you believe, what you see, who you are, etc. People who force their beliefs on you are nothing more than rain coming down on your umbrella. If what someone else believes is considered right (and you disagree), then you would rather be wrong. If what they see is considered sight, you would rather be blind.

There is a lick from Björk's "Possibly Maybe" in the song at a slower tempo.

Incubus - Nice To Know You

Incubus - Nice To Know You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Morning View
Released: 2001

Nice To Know You Lyrics

Better than watching Gellar
Bending silver spoons
Better than witnessing
Newborn nebulas in bloom
She who sees from up

High smiles and surely sings
Perspective pries her once
Weighty eyes and
It gives you wings
I haven't felt the way
I feel today

In so long its hard
For me to specify
I'm beginning to notice
How much this feels like
A waking limb
Pins and needles
Nice To Know You
Goodbye
Nice to know you

Deeper than the deepest
Coustou would ever go
Higher than the heights of what
We often think we know
Blessed she who clearly
Sees the wood for the trees
To obtain a bird's eye is to
Turn a blizzard to a breeze

I haven't felt the way
I feel today
In so long its hard
For me to specify
I'm beginning to notice
How much this feels like
A waking limb
Pins and needles
Nice to know you
Goodbye
Nice to know you
To know, you

Could it be that it had
Been there all along

I haven't felt the way
I feel today
In so long its hard
For me to specify
I'm beginning to notice
How much this feels like
A waking limb
Pins and needles
Nice to know you
Goodbye
Nice to know you
To know
You

Writer/s: BOYD, BRANDON CHARLES/EINZIGER, MICHAEL AARON / KATUNICH, ALEX/PASILLAS, JOSE ANTHONY II
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Nice To Know You

Lead singer Brandon Boyd: "I had a moment in my life about a year ago where I was way too close to everything that was going on and I was blind, I felt like I was asleep. And the clouds parted for kind of a strange reason and I gained perspective. What happened was my hand had fallen asleep on the airplane on the way to Europe and it remained asleep for about 10 days, which was kind of scary. I must have pinched a nerve or something. But as my hand started waking up, the clouds started breaking away from that emotional state as well. The two happened simultaneously, so I created a simple metaphor for it. So it's basically a song about gaining perspective on a situation."

The line, "Better than watching Gellar bending silver spoons" is a reference to Uri Gellar, who is famous for using psychic powers to bend spoons.

Incubus - Wish You Were Here

Incubus - Wish You Were Here Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Morning View
Released: 2001

Wish You Were Here Lyrics

I dig my toes into the sand
The Ocean looks like a thousand diamonds
Strewn across a blue blanket
I lean against the wind
Pretend that I am weightless
And in this moment I am happy happy)

I Wish You Were Here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here

I lay my head onto the sand
The sky resembles a backlit canopy
With holes punched in it
I'm counting UFOs
I signal them with my lighter
And in this moment I am happy happy)

I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
Wish you were here

The worlds a roller coaster
And I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care
But my hands are busy in the air saying)

I wish you were here
I wish you were.

I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
Wish you were here.

Writer/s: PASILLAS II, JOSE / KATUNICH, ALEX / EINZIGER, MICHAEL / KILMORE, CHRISTOPHER / BOYD, BRANDON
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Wish You Were Here

Lead singer Brandon Boyd: "A simple and straightforward ditty about the beauty of a moment in paradise. And the desire to share that moment with someone of like mind."

Before Morning View was recorded, Incubus took weeks to set up their equipment, pictures, and stuff. Chris Kilmore had plastic turntables that he put all over the house and Mike Einziger played a record called Tahitian Island Music pretty much non-stop. (thanks, Tim - Pittsburgh, PA, for above 2)

Incubus - Circles

Incubus - Circles Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Morning View
Released: 2001

Circles Lyrics

You saw me lost in treading water
I looked pathetic and as helpless as a stinger without a bee
But underneath my presentation. Yeah
I knew the walls were coming down
And the stones that fell were aiming away from me

Hey what would it mean to you?
To know that it'll come back around again
Hey whatever it means to you
Know that everything moves in Circles

I saw you standing in my headlights Blink blink blink
I thought Id run you down for the weight you left on me
But then I pressed rewind, reversed and drove away
And see you, disappear in my rear view
Brought to me the word reciprocity

Hey what would it mean to you?
To know that it'll come back around again
Hey whatever it means to you
Know that everything moves in circles

Round and round we go
We could know when it ends so well
We fall on and we fall off
Existential carousel

Hey what would it mean to you?
To know that it'll come back around again
Hey whatever it means to you
Know that everything moves in circles
Everything moves in circles

Writer/s: PASILLAS II, JOSE / KATUNICH, ALEX / EINZIGER, MICHAEL / KILMORE, CHRISTOPHER / BOYD, BRANDON
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Circles

This is about the choices we make, and how they can come back and bite us. What goes around comes around is the premise here. (thanks, Dak - Golden City, MO)

Incubus - Aqueous Transmission

Incubus - Aqueous Transmission Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Morning View
Released: 2001

Aqueous Transmission Lyrics

I'm floating down a river
Oars freed from their homes long ago
Lying face up on the floor
Of my vessel
I marvel at the stars
And feel my heart overflow

Further down the river

Two weeks without my lover
I'm in this boat alone
Floating down a river named emotion
Will I make it back to shore?
Or drift into the unknown

Further down the river

I'm building an antenna
Transmissions will be sent
When I am through
Maybe we can meet again
Further down the river
And share what we both discovered
Then revel in the view

Further down the river

I'm floating down a river

Writer/s: Boyd, Brandon Charles / Einziger, Michael Aaron / Katunich, Alex / Pasillas Ii, Jose Anthony / Kilmore, Christopher E
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Aqueous Transmission

Lead singer Brandon Boyd: "Perhaps our most ambitious work to date, was first conceived with an instrument quite alien to Incubus and all of rock music to be precise. A 'Ko-kyu' is what was used here and it was donated by a very generous and talented man by the name of Steve Vai . One late evening we began conjuring and experimenting with this track and it quickly brought to mind the image and analogy of floating freely down a river; hence the content of the song. Our friend Suzi Katayama, who has in the past worked string arrangements with the likes of Björk, Madonna and even Yours Truly for an acoustic performance in LA, lent her classical finesse to this story. And in doing so helped it become exactly what we envisioned; a song so atmospheric and vibratory, it would make those who listened to it doze off into a land of rivers, kung fu and unicorns, eventually making the listener pee in her/his pants. (Attainable goals I think, but please don't operate any heavy machinery while listening to this one.)" (thanks, Landon - Effingham, IL)

The noises at the end are thousands of frogs that were recorded outside the Malibu mansion where Incubus recorded Morning View. It wasn't easy to get the sound - every time they'd come out to record, the frogs would shut up. (thanks, Tim - Pittsburgh, PA)