(This alludes to the fact that Imogen Heap is writing here and above, as it would seem, about a family that had only just been torn from their homes. THE DUST HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN TO FORM CROP CIRCLES IN THE CARPET. WHERE ARE WE? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? (This is a reminder that Jewish people were taken from their homes by the Nazis and forced to live, and often die - in complete confusion as to where they may be, why, or what may happen in the coming day - in concentration camps, which is incredibly difficult to experience and process) I think the tragedy repeats itself in history. Sara from Washington DcThis song seems to be much bigger than just one person’s event, which this does touch on individual suffering, but a mass casualty and the individual effect on each victim, the Holocaust.Interesting that the entire song takes the most organic acoustic auditory instrument, the voice, and puts it through a machine, the vocoder, which convolutes and alters it.perhaps as a metaphor for the entire of society due to the Industrial Revolution. AnonymousIs it possible this song is referring to the Industrial Revolution and the unpreventable transition into the Technological Revolution? "Trains and sewing machines" were the mark of the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Imogen heap hide and seek series#It now reminds me of that series and that part of the series. It is a critical song in the newish BBC series, Normal People. Davo Z from Calgary, CanadaBeautiful and haunting."Why'd you say, Why'd you say, Why'd you say, What did SHE say". The imbalance between the right and the left, the imbalance between the divine masculine and the divine feminine. It's loss, tragedy and longing on a micro and macro level, from personal tragedy, to large-scale atrocities, to the 'takeover', industrialization, power, changing (or destroying) the planet and humanity as we know it. it's all of the things each of you have described below. the composition, the words, the recording style. Tiffany from Vancouver, CanadaThis song is brilliant.There's something bigger than what I am experiencing. I listened to it every single morning on my commute to my student teaching placement, while dropping my dad off at the bus stop so he could go to work. I don't know how I came to it, but something about it struck me. Elyse Marie from Rochester, NyAll I know is my experience with this song.I guess it related so close to my situation at a point in my life, I just went with it. Maybe it is farfetched, that's why it hasn't survived the google search. I'm just throwing this out there as something I read about the song a long time ago. It was said that the lyrics, "Trains and Sewing Machines" was referring to a wedding dress being made for the wedding. In this interpretation, the song was about a couple engaged and soon to be married when one of them changed their mind and left suddenly as in calling it off and the other coming home to an empty house after the person unknowingly move out. Unfortunately, I don't remember the source. In 2008, I was looking for the meaning of this song. As information gets added to the world wide web, old information falls back in the abyss. I just wanted to throw out one thing that I did not see interpreted clearly (I didn't read every comment) and kind of danced around (except for the Holocaust interpretation that was very good). Jim from Baltimore, MdThese are some absolutely amazing interpretations.
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