Don't move
Don't do anything
What we captured got away,
slipped from us

Don't speak
don't say anything
They've been recording all we say
for years now

You won't see them right away
But you'll hear them singing
Hold me closely now but don't,
don't say anything
They've come to take me away
and won't leave until I'm gone

Don't feel, don't love anything
Love attracts all those who taint the cherished
Don't try to, to change anything
Nothing pure can ever stay

They'll say, relax, you'll be fine
All we love goes away

They'll take all you let them find
It was mine.


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    What I thought this song meant was more personal. I am in foster care and this always makes me think of when the police took me away. {"They've come to take me away and won't leave until I'm gone"}

    And some of it is feelings of when I was put into foster care. {"What we captured got away, slipped from us."} This would be my feelings about my childhood and how it was taken away from me.

    Also {"Don't speak, don't say anything. They've been recording all we say for years now."} This would mean that when my mother was drinking I wouldn't say anything because I wouldn't have wanted to leave my home. I was in foster care when I was 3 and got out when I was 4. Then I went back when I was 11. This would be DSS (DCF) having my case on file.

    Obviously, this is not what the song means, I just always think of foster care when I hear this song.

    sleepangelon March 19, 2010   Link

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