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Out where the stones lay like bones by the ocean
Out where the waves crash contempt on the land
Someone was trembling for fear of the tempest
Somebody silently reached for their hand
Said, understand that if you're cold I'll keep you warm
And besides, there's so much beauty in a storm
So come down with me to the shore
And what's more, I adore you
So tell me, what is there to fear
You think some seraph up above is trying to rob us of our love
Because the sky's not clear
My dear, you know there's not
Now listen to the rain upon the rooftop
But the wind picked up
Out where the stones stand up like thrones beside the ocean
Out where the waves make a grave of the sea
The lovers struggled in the middle of the tempest
And water angrily crawled up onto the beach
Said, hold my hand and stay with me
We'll be released
But the tide clung like an anchor to her feet
And though he tried to make the water line recede
It pulled her out into the sea
He could not break apart the waves to bring her safely back in
He watched her hand break through the surface once
Then disappear again
Forever wait inside the sea for me, my dear
I hear you
You speak in every curling wave
And sing in every violent breeze
Someday not far away from here
My dear, I swear I'll see you
And we will hear the seraphs cry
For they will still envy you and I
How they envied you and I
How they envied you and I
How they envied you and I
Out where the waves crash contempt on the land
Someone was trembling for fear of the tempest
Somebody silently reached for their hand
Said, understand that if you're cold I'll keep you warm
And besides, there's so much beauty in a storm
So come down with me to the shore
And what's more, I adore you
So tell me, what is there to fear
You think some seraph up above is trying to rob us of our love
Because the sky's not clear
My dear, you know there's not
Now listen to the rain upon the rooftop
But the wind picked up
Out where the stones stand up like thrones beside the ocean
Out where the waves make a grave of the sea
The lovers struggled in the middle of the tempest
And water angrily crawled up onto the beach
Said, hold my hand and stay with me
We'll be released
But the tide clung like an anchor to her feet
And though he tried to make the water line recede
It pulled her out into the sea
He could not break apart the waves to bring her safely back in
He watched her hand break through the surface once
Then disappear again
Forever wait inside the sea for me, my dear
I hear you
You speak in every curling wave
And sing in every violent breeze
Someday not far away from here
My dear, I swear I'll see you
And we will hear the seraphs cry
For they will still envy you and I
How they envied you and I
How they envied you and I
How they envied you and I
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Out where the waves crash contempt on the land
Someone was trembling for fear of the tempest
Somebody silently reached for their hand
Said, understand that if you're cold I'll keep you warm" He still thinks she's perfect despite her mental illnesses: "And besides, there's so much beauty in a storm" he then tells her he loves her and to trust him and place all her confidence in him. But that makes her a bit unstable and she tells him that she doesn't think she can handle the heartbreak at the end. And he tells her that heartbreak isn't going to happen even with her mental handicaps. And he tells her to calm down because everything will work out in the end. But despite everything he said. She still got worse :"So come down with me to the shore
And what's more, I adore you
So tell me, what is there to fear
You think some seraph up above is trying to rob us of our love
Because the sky's not clear
My dear, you know there's not
Now listen to the rain upon the rooftop
But the wind picked up" her mental illnesses are now "picking up storm" and she's getting worse and worse and her and the boys love is struggling through that battle and her suicidal tendencies are creeping closer in fear that she may loose him:"Out where the stones stand up like thrones beside the ocean
Out where the waves make a grave of the sea
The lovers struggled in the middle of the tempest"
And water angrily crawled up onto the beach" He tried desperately to save her from herself. Trying to tell her he'd never leave her. But he didn't convince her enough. And she got worse and worse :"Said, hold my hand and stay with me
We'll be released
But the tide clung like an anchor to her feet" he tries to keep her depression at bay but he couldn't.: "And though he tried to make the water line recede" but he couldn't save her from herself and she soon became engulfed in her depression and he couldn't bring her back to mental health. "It pulled her out into the sea
He could not break apart the waves to bring her safely back in" he saw her start to get better for a brief time before she sank further into depression and ended her own life.: "He watched her hand break through the surface once, Then disappear again"
I hear you
You speak in every curling wave
And sing in every violent breeze"
He then becomes suicidal and hopes if he dies in the same manner as her he will be able to see her once again:" Someday not far away from here
My dear, I swear I'll see you". The seraphs ,to me , are the agents tied to the mental illnesses they shared. They have been hovering, waiting to take their lives. But the seraphs are sad, because in the end, even though they destroyed the lovers, the lovers still end up happy and freed from them: "And we will hear the seraphs cry
For they will still envy you and"
Hence the title: "Fall down, never get back up again"
once their depression hit, and once they "fell down" to rock bottom they couldn't recover and ended their own life's and "never got back up again"
From personal experience, this song fits trying to love a depressed person perfectly. It's heartbreaking.
My honest interpretation of the song is that in the beginning, the man is deeply pessimistic and lost. And a girl shows up and rids him of this sorrow, and begins to make him happy. Yet, alas, she is caught up within the constant current of the world, the everflowing change, and she leaves him. And he hopes she will take the same advice she once gave him, and return.
I think the storm is just a metaphor
One of my favorite albums of all time!!!
between Vega and Altair", actually) of his
wife, the love of his life, drowning in front of him. This album was dedicated to her;
he mentions her in "such small hands"... "in think i saw you in my sleep, darling."
he's mourning for her. :(
and in "last blues for bloody knuckles"?..."My precious WIFE, i am in shambles, i am crumbling, i am"
"Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again" was song written by 16 yr old, Michigan native, Kevin Wint. When he presented it to Dreyer, the bands lead singer, he loved the poem and quickly turned it to one of the most beloved songs by this band. The poem was written right after a bad breakup with Wint's beloved girlfriend.[citation needed]
I have two ideas about the meaning to this though:
I think she could have commited suicide. Either she went through something difficult and he didn't help her or she didn't tell him and she couldn't take it anymore. With all the references about the ocean, I would say she drowned.
Or
She died when they were most in love. Probably murdered. The storm could be when they found her but then:
'He watched her hand break through the surface once
Then disappear again'
There was a moment where they thought she might live but she didn't.
The whole way through the song he seems to love her and when she dies, he loves her even more.
He says:
'Someday not far away from here
My dear, I swear I'll see you'
He believes his love for her will bring them back together one day
'And we will hear the seraphs cry
For they will still envy you and I'
He believes even the angels will be jelous of the amount of love they have for eachother.
In my opinion, this song is beautiful, a great metaphoric story of love and death <3