Echo & the Bunnymen is a British Post-punk band formed in Liverpool in 1978… Read Full Bio ↴Echo & the Bunnymen is a British Post-punk band formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up consisted of Ian McCulloch (of The Crucial Three), Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson. There are many stories, probably apocryphal, that the quartet was completed by a drum machine known as "Echo".

By the time of their debut album, 1980's Crocodiles - a moderate UK hit - the drum machine had been replaced by Pete de Freitas. Their next, the critically-acclaimed Heaven Up Here, reached the Top Ten in 1981, as did 1983's Porcupine and '84's Ocean Rain. Singles like "The Killing Moon" (later used in the soundtrack to Donnie Darko, a film whose imagery owed much to the artwork of the band's early records.), "Silver," "Bring on the Dancing Horses," and "The Cutter" helped keep the group in the public eye as they took a brief hiatus in the late 1980s. Their 1987 self-titled LP was a small American hit, their only LP to have significant sales there.

McCulloch quit the band in 1988. De Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident one year later. The others decided to continue, recruiting Noel Burke to replace McCulloch on vocals in Reverberation (1990), which did not generate much excitement among fans or critics. Burke, Sargeant and Pattinson split after that, but the surviving three fourths of the original band reformed in 1997 and released Evergreen (1997), What are You Going to Do with Your Life? (1999), Flowers (2001) , Siberia (2005), and the latest addition, The Fountain (2009). The group's old audience liked the return to their classic sound, and they also managed to gain a number of new, younger listeners.

Echo and the Bunnymen were managed early on by Bill Drummond, who went on to be a founder member of The KLF.

All Because Of You Days
Echo & the Bunnymen Lyrics

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I don't want to run
I don't want to hide
I just want to kiss goodnight
Say goodnight one more time

Nothing gets you up
Nothing gets you high
Everything just comes to this

Final mistaken lives

And it's goodbye
Goodbye all my new days
Goodbye, all because of you days
Goodbye

You just can't get out
You just can't get in
Everything just has strung you up
Hung you up
To watch you swing

One of us is you
And one of us is me
Broken frozen equal parts
Broken hearts breaking free

And it's goodbye
Goodbye all my new days
Goodbye, all those chosen few days
Goodbye

Baby maybe someday
Maybe one day
We'll say hi

I don't want to run
I don't want to hide
I just want to kiss goodnight
Say goodnight one last time

Nothing gets you up
Nothing gets me high
Everything just comes to this
Final mis-taken lives
One last time

It's goodbye
Goodbye all my new days
Goodbye, all because of you days
Goodbye

And it's goodbye
Goodbye all my new days
Goodbye, all those chosen few days
New days

Baby maybe someday
Maybe one day
We'll say hi
Baby maybe sometime
Maybe next time
We'll say hi
Baby maybe someday
Maybe one day
We'll say hi
Baby maybe sometime
Maybe next time
We'll say hi

Baby maybe sometime
Maybe next time
We'll say hi
We'll say hi
We'll say hi

Baby maybe someday

Maybe one day
We'll say hi

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Echo & the Bunnymen's song "All Because Of You Days" tell the story of a failed relationship. The singer is saying goodbye to their "new days," or the time in their life when they were in love and happy with their partner. The singer doesn't want to run or hide from the situation, but he just wants to say goodnight one more time before it's all over. The relationship has come to a point where nothing can bring them up or make them happy. Everything has been summarized into what the singer refers to as "final mistaken lives." The singer is acknowledging that the relationship is over, and he's saying goodbye to the time they shared together.

The lyrics of the second verse further explain the toxicity of the relationship. The line "You just can't get out, you just can't get in" talks about how the relationship has isolated them from the world around them. Everything has strung them up and hung them up, which has caused the relationship to fail. Even though both of them are equally broken, they can't seem to fix it. The line "Broken hearts breaking free" refers to how the ending of the relationship is the only thing that will free them from the hurt that they've been experiencing. The final verse gives hope that they might one day be able to say hi again and reunite, but it's left up to interpretation whether that will happen or not.

Line by Line Meaning

I don't want to run
I don't want to avoid facing my problems

I don't want to hide
I don't want to conceal my true feelings

I just want to kiss goodnight
I just want to show affection before parting ways

Say goodnight one more time
Say farewell once more

Nothing gets you up
Nothing excites you

Nothing gets you high
Nothing lifts your spirits

Everything just comes to this
Everything leads to this point

Final mistaken lives
Our lives are ending with regrets

And it's goodbye
And we bid farewell to each other

Goodbye all my new days
Goodbye to all the days we could have had together

Goodbye, all because of you days
Goodbye to all the days that were influenced by you