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”
Many nights dwindle by
Midnight moon's on the rise
My heavy head's going light
So I'll go home and sleep tonight
I'm walking tonight
About as far as I can go
I listen to that song
By the windows
Here's to you and the stars above
The half-moon in your pretty eyes
And here's to you and the setting sun
The bar band and their sorry songs
I'll be drunk before too long
And I'll keep up this sappy talk
This letter don't say it all
It's too much to enclose
These postcards from tiny islands
Mean more than you know
So here's to you and the ground below
The glass ball in the empty sky
I'm walking tonight
About as far as I can go
The marble was stolen
The midnight moon is up
This letter don't say it all
It's too much to enclose
Life is so easy now
Everything is working out
Oh, holidays are flying by
Midnight moon's on the rise
My heavy head's going light
So I'll go home and sleep tonight
I'm walking tonight
About as far as I can go
I listen to that song
By the windows
Here's to you and the stars above
The half-moon in your pretty eyes
And here's to you and the setting sun
The bar band and their sorry songs
I'll be drunk before too long
And I'll keep up this sappy talk
This letter don't say it all
It's too much to enclose
These postcards from tiny islands
Mean more than you know
So here's to you and the ground below
The glass ball in the empty sky
I'm walking tonight
About as far as I can go
The marble was stolen
The midnight moon is up
This letter don't say it all
It's too much to enclose
Life is so easy now
Everything is working out
Oh, holidays are flying by
Lyrics submitted by life_aint_chess
Postcards from Tiny Islands Lyrics as written by Peter M. Bauer Matthew Frederick Barrick
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group
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A few changes for this awesome song:
Many nights dwindle by,
This letter don't say it all, but it's too much to enclose in both choruses.
The marble, maybe: *the marble was stoning me"... although that disagrees with the tense, so maybe not. Your guess is as good as mine.
And finally, "oh how the days are flying by!"
**Can an admin delete the previous post. Marijuana affects the memory.
Postcards from Tiny Islands is about Suicide.
He's walking to another place far from his life the entire song. He's always walking and when he sees the moon he starts writing the letter.
He's a glass ball in the empty sky and when he drops "to the ground below" the tempo of the song increases almost to a free fall.
The tiny islands are bridges and the postcards are his suicide note.
"The marble (were stone in me?)" I feel like he's saying "there's marble and stone in me". I think it's a very gruesome way to depict his body when he hits the ground. And then he sees the moon pass by and saying the letter explains it all, "It's to much to enclose".
The Holidays flying by are the years since his death.
Postcards from Tiny Islands is about Suicide.
He's walking to another place far from his life the entire song. He's always walking and when he sees the moon he starts writing the letter.
He's a glass ball in the empty sky and when he drops "to the ground below" the tempo of the song increases almost to a free fall.
The tiny islands are bridges and the postcards are his suicide note.
I feel that "The marble (were stone in me?)" I feel like he's saying there's marble and stone in me. He's fucking dieing and he's watching the moon pass by and saying the letter I live in Williamsburg Brooklyn and I walked the bridge tonight because I'm broke. I felt like jumping, It reminded me of the song.
"The marble (were stone in me?)" I feel like he's saying there's marble and stone in me. He's fucking dieing and he's watching the moon pass by and saying the letter explains it all, "It's to much to enclose".
The Holidays flying by are the years, it's time.