Album: Morning View (2001)

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• You saw me lost and treading water
  I looked pathetic
  I looked 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
  Ah
  
  Hey, what would it mean to you (what would it mean to you)
  To know that it'll come back around again?
  Hey, whatever it means to you (whatever it means to you)
  Know that everything moves in circles, yeah
  
  I saw you standing in my headlights (blink, blink, blink)
  I thought I'd run you down
  For the weight you left on me
  Instead, I pushed rewind, reversed and drove away
  And seeing you disappear in my rear view
  Brought to me the word "reciprocity"
  Ah
  
  Hey, what would it mean to you (what would it mean to you)
  To know that it'll come back around again?
  Hey, whatever it means to you (whatever it means to you)
  Know that everything moves in circles, yeah, hey
  
  Round and round we go
  Who could've known it'd end so well?
  We fall on and we fall off
  Existential carousel
  Spin!
  
  Hey, what would it mean to you (what would it mean to you)
  To know that it'll come back around again?
  Hey, whatever it means to you (whatever it means to you)
  Know that everything moves in circles, yeah
  
  Oh, everything moves in circles
  Round and round and round
  And round and round and round
  And round and round and round Writer/s: Alex Katunich, Brandon Boyd, Christopher Kilmore, Jose Pasillas II, Michael Einziger
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

• Seinbeans from Anchorage AlaskaEvery song from incubus is about karma
• Brian from Winchester, Mai'd say Karma and the circle of life, everything moves in Circles.
• Pat from East Hanover, NjThis song is also about patience. It shows how everyone will eventually get their chance. (It will come back around again). You always have another chance, because everything goes in circles. My favorite incubus song...
  -Thanks
• Jeff from Macomb, Mithis song is about there former bass player dirk (alix), what made me form this conclusion is if you watch the morning view sessions dvd and you will see how right befor they play this song brandon sprays dirk in the face with breath spray and walks away with a pissed off look on his face and dirk does a "mean" slide on the bass, you can sence the tencion betewwn them at that moment and how brandon introduces the song.
• Rob from Houston, TxThis song is about the Hindu and Buddhist concept of karma. The spiritual equivelant of Newton's Third Law of Motion which states, "every action has an equal and opposite reaction." The song is talking about taking the higher ground and chosing not to react negatively to an action that had done him some sort of physical or emotional harm. And he is content knowing that everything comes around and the other person will get whatever is due them as they get on the "exestential carousel" again.
• Tessa from Dayton, Or'like a stinger without a bee' my god that is brillant!
• Mel from Sydney, AustraliaEverything mooves in circles round and round
• Kate from Wellington, New Zealandthis song is about how some of the choices we make soon come back and bite us on the bum.

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