| Mumford & Sons – I Gave You All Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This is very much my opinion and may be completely inaccurate, but I think the singer is mainly singing to himself in this song: Rip the earth in two with your mind Seal the urge which ensues with brass wires (referring to the singer's mind, the singer's urge) I never meant you any harm But your tears feel warm as they fall on my forearm (someone he hurt, perhaps, unintentionally) How can you say that your truth is better than ours? Shoulder to shoulder, now brother, we carry no arms The blind man sleeps in the doorway, his home If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could have won (the apathy is the key. The apathy about the blind man, the apathy about carrying no arms, the apathy about causing harm) But I gave you all (and the "you" here, I think, is the apathy. He gave everything he had to the apathy) But you rip it from my hands And you swear it's all gone And you rip out all I have Just to say that you've won Well now you've won (and all it did was rip everything from his hands - everything he'd ever done was surrendered to the enemy of his apathy, and it has won, rather than him.) |
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| Mumford & Sons – White Blank Page Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The way I understood it, the singer is in a sexual relationship with his girlfriend, going against what he believes to be right. The first verse, Can you lie next to her And give her your heart, your heart As well as your body And can you lie next to her And confess your love, your love As well as your folly And can you kneel before the king And say I'm clean, I'm clean is the singer singing to himself. He's wondering if he can lie next to this girl and give her his heart and his body, really loving her for more than just the sex, and still say before his king that he's clean. And then he's asking the girl (and the king) where his fault was, in having sex with her and loving her with all his heart: But tell me now, where was my fault In loving you with my whole heart Oh tell me now, where was my fault In loving you with my whole heart But the girl never really loved him the way he loved her - she fooled him into a relationship for the attention, but not for the love - he threw his whole heart and his body into it, but she didn't: A white blank page and a swelling rage, rage You did not think when you sent me to the brink, the brink You desired my attention but denied my affections, my affections Then here he is disillusioned and seeking real love, true love, possibly from the king instead of a person: Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life |
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| Switchfoot – Selling The News Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| actually, according to my lyrics booklet, it is "meaning and MEANS" and also "WHERE nothing is sacred" :) | |
| Switchfoot – Where I Belong Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| awesome song :) just in case anyone's wondering, the reference to 'Babylon' is comparing our lives on earth to the Israelites' exile in Babylon - one day we'll go home, but until then we'll sing from Babylon. | |
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