Hope (Our Lady Peace song)

"Hope" is a song by Canadian music group Our Lady Peace. It was the third single released from their debut 1994 album, Naveed. It was included on the compilation album 10 of Modern Rock's Best...

"Hope"
Single by Our Lady Peace
from the album
Naveed
ReleasedOctober 10, 1994[1]
Recorded1994
GenrePost-grunge, alternative rock
Length5:15 album version
LabelSony Music, Epic, Relativity (US)
Songwriter(s)Raine Maida
Producer(s)Arnold Lanni
Our Lady Peace singles chronology
"Starseed"
(1994)		 "Hope"
(1994)		 "Supersatellite"
(1995)

Origin

When first being recorded, the song was titled "Sunflower" and had a psychedelic style similar to The Doors and according to Jeremy Taggart, a Police vibe out of the bridge.[2]

Meaning

Hope, the main character of the song, descends into insanity. She thinks she's a sunflower. She climbs on top of the piano and reaches towards the sun. Most of the lyrics remain ambiguous.

Hope climbs atop of the piano
Reaching out towards the warmth of the sun
Some man tries to ask her down
But now maybe that's where she belongs

Music video

The music video for the song shows the band playing in a smoky bar. It switches back and forth to a woman in a sunflower field who seems lost. It shows her and another man doing various unusual things.

gollark: ++delete βees
gollark: It is a shame we don't have spare islands anarchocommunists can go to if they want to anarchocommune.
gollark: It is, at least, kind of funny.
gollark: Also they're entirely reliant on the city for electricity and water and stuff.
gollark: Context: you can't really grow food on tiny bits of soil on cardboard. You can't really grow much food on the tiny plots. You can't grow food fast enough for it to be useful in your "commune" in the middle of a city. You probably can't grow enough food *at all* in that area to feed the sort of population density cities typically have. You definitely can't really do it without much farming equipment and by just making a few tiny soil bits with plants in them.

References
  1. OLP Bandology at OurLadyPeace.cc
  2. Unknown "Up and coming: Jeremy Taggart from OLP" - Modern Drummer Feb. 1998. Retrieved December 5, 2009


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.