Incubus wish you were here lyrics meaning

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

I, oh

The world's a rollercoaster
And I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care
While 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

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"Wish You Were Here" by Incubus is a lyric poem. The poem is basically about a person who is lying on a beach and wishing he could share the experience with someone else. The speaker most likely wants to share it with a lover that they have lost in the past, weather by death or breaking up. He (the speaker) wants to be back with that person but has to move on to be truly happy.

In this poem the rhyme scheme is inconsistent. "Maybe I should hold with care/But my hands are the air saying" (lines 21 and 22), the rhyme in those two lines would be with care and air. The rhyme functions in the poem because it adds more rhythm and it makes it flow better; also the poem is in middle diction.

In the first verse there is a lot of imagery because as you read it, it creates a scene in your mind.

"I lay my head onto the sand" (line 10) also creates the image of the person lying on the beach. The reader is able to create the picture of someone sitting on a beach watching the wave's crash and looking at the stars.

"The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket" (line 2) is another literary device. It is a simile because the author is comparing the ocean to a thousand diamonds scattered across a blanket. In line 11 there is a metaphor comparing the sky to a canopy with holes in it without using the words "like" or "as". "And in this moment I am happy/Happy" (lines 4 and 5) have emphasis on the word happy. Maybe when the person does the things previously described in the poem he is truly happy...

I know the song was meant to just appreciate the "now". The beauty in this moment right here. That's something I've always loved about this song, but now there's a different meaning for me. I lost my best friend on May 12, 2017 to a motorcycle accident. I miss him SO much. It's been over a month and there's times when I kinda don't think about him being gone every second of the day so "in this moment I am happy" resounds heavily with me. The last memory I have with him is in Half Moon Bay, CA at the beach and the whole song is about being by the ocean. "I wish you were here" has meaning to me for obvious reasons, I ALWAYS wish he was here.

Another reflection from a famous artist who in all his success, can only have it two ways because there is the complete absensce of privacy anywhere else but for which he can take a plane to get to...but when he gets there and is finally alone and thinks that he has accomplished that to which he has so been longing for, he realizes that his time away from the masses of asses would actually be more fulfilling if he were with someone he could love, and even more so, someone who would love him for who he really is. In light of realizing the double edged sword and that eutopia does not exist, he writes this song...and B writes this song very well.
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"Wish You Were Here" is a song by American rock band Incubus and the lead single from their fourth studio album, Morning View. Released on August 14, 2001, it peaked at number two on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and number four on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart that year. "Wish You Were Here" would become one of the band's most well known songs and be included on the 2009 greatest hits compilation Monuments and Melodies.

The song is featured in the video game Donkey Konga 2. The song was also used on then ABC affiliate KAQY's station IDs in the early 2000s (the station is now known today as MeTV affiliate KMLU in Monroe, Louisiana).

Background, music, and lyrics[edit]

Prior to release, the track was played during Moby's Area:One summer festival in 2001.[2] It was announced as Morning View's lead single in June that year. Guitarist Mike Einziger noted that "Wish You Were Here" was one of the last songs written for Morning View and that "the content is about being happy living for the moment and not looking forward to the future as some event."[2] Vocalist Brandon Boyd also elaborated on its meaning:[3]

"The song wasn't specifically about a person. It was about me acknowledging a very brief moment in my life and in my experience with all of these guys in making this record. In that moment, I wish that I had somebody to go, 'I love you, man.' I was wishing that there was someone there to share that moment with."

Music videos[edit]

A music video for "Wish You Were Here" was scheduled for an August 2001 shooting with director Phil Harder. Einziger anticipated finishing everything within a single day like previous Incubus videos had been made.[2] Although it could be streamed from the band's website, in light of the recent September 11 attacks where victims leapt from the Twin Towers, the original "Wish You Were Here" video would be rejected. Boyd remarked on the video's controversy:

We spent a lot of money, a lot of days, blood, sweat, tears, and then it was deemed inappropriate by our people and MTV. . . In the original video, we were emulating a scene from the movie Head by The Monkees. [In the movie] there were thousands of screaming women and Army people, cops, clowns and photographers chasing the Monkees off this bridge. The only [thing they can do] is jump. We [shot a scene where we're] running away from these people. That part was [deemed] inappropriate — screaming girls, screaming people. Then, our only place to go is to leap off this bridge, and it shows us descending and smacking into the water. Which, before the whole thing happened, we had a great laugh with.

The second version, which found substantial airplay upon its late September premiere, has the band performing in front of a white backdrop, a light breeze blowing toward them. The quickly composed substitute mixed the Phil Harder white-backdrop footage with various "home video"-styled footage shot and edited by Brett Spivey of the band members during album production at their Morning View house, including in their control room, at their swimming pool, playing ocean-view lawn golf, and enjoying other summer activities.[4] By December 2001, it reached number eight on MTV's TRL.

In May 2002, the original "bridge jump" version as well as behind the scenes footage would be included on the Morning View Sessions DVD. The video would also air years later on Fuse TV.

Live performances[edit]

"Wish You Were Here" was performed on the Late Show with David Letterman on November 1, 2001. Upon winning Billboard's Modern Rock Single of the Year for "Drive," Incubus performed "Wish You Were Here" at the award show.[citation needed]

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