Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Walk 5 feet above the mountain,
The landscape remains the same.
Walk 5 feet below the ground,
The landscape is unchanged.
I know my home's eroding,
The mountain rise again.
I've seen the ocean rising,only the stones remain.
I've heard the Titan stirring,
I don't know who to blame.
This water tastes like wine.
This water tastes like turpentine.
I didn't travel all this way
Just to leave a trail of tears behind.
I didn't travel all this way
Just to leave my hands and nails behind.
I didn't travel all this way
Just to drag a tail behind.
Everybody prays that
The rain will shatter the dam.
The water will turn the mortar to sand.
The engineers have done
All they can
but we're damned.
Little lost lamb,
I've done all I can,
The barn door has blown shut,
And the brook is rising up.
To move,
To breath,
We must cherish these.
We have these things like feet.
The townies saw a monster
But the monster saw a man.
The coroner's report found a flower in his hand.
Before pitchforks and torches
Ferdinand made his last stand.
The farmer dropped his sword
And went back to his plow.
The children it had frightened
Were even more scared now.
The minister and mayor told the people to be proud.
And when they went to bed
They tossed and turned all night
But when the sun came up
They never saw the light.
And when the worms had finished them.
They knew that they were right.
This mountain has
A mind of it's own.
The landscape remains the same.
Walk 5 feet below the ground,
The landscape is unchanged.
I know my home's eroding,
The mountain rise again.
I've seen the ocean rising,only the stones remain.
I've heard the Titan stirring,
I don't know who to blame.
This water tastes like wine.
This water tastes like turpentine.
I didn't travel all this way
Just to leave a trail of tears behind.
I didn't travel all this way
Just to leave my hands and nails behind.
I didn't travel all this way
Just to drag a tail behind.
Everybody prays that
The rain will shatter the dam.
The water will turn the mortar to sand.
The engineers have done
All they can
but we're damned.
Little lost lamb,
I've done all I can,
The barn door has blown shut,
And the brook is rising up.
To move,
To breath,
We must cherish these.
We have these things like feet.
The townies saw a monster
But the monster saw a man.
The coroner's report found a flower in his hand.
Before pitchforks and torches
Ferdinand made his last stand.
The farmer dropped his sword
And went back to his plow.
The children it had frightened
Were even more scared now.
The minister and mayor told the people to be proud.
And when they went to bed
They tossed and turned all night
But when the sun came up
They never saw the light.
And when the worms had finished them.
They knew that they were right.
This mountain has
A mind of it's own.
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I take it as a fable with classical and medieval references. One of the most interesting of their songs, probably because of its narrative quality. And it has better rhymes than Reformat.