I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Oh, I have lived for ages I'm a thousand turns of tides
I'm a thousand wakes of springtime and thousand infant cries
Oh, a thousand infant cries
I got sixteen hundred tigers now tied to silver strings
When they plowed in the pastures, oh the mighty heart will sing
Oh, the mighty heart will sing
But I'll always be blamed for the sun going down with a sigh
But I'm the light in the middle of every man's fog
I bend my arrows now in circles and I shoot around the hill
If I don't get you in the morning, by the evening I sure will
By the evening I sure will
Because I'm the fire on the mountain you have lit up in your dream
But also water on the fountain you could send myself on me
You could send myself on me
Because I'll always be blamed for the sun going down with a sigh
But I'm the light in the middle of every man's fog
And no I never meant to say these words but yes you ought to know
That the dark in what I've always been, it will not ever go
No it will not ever go
And for so I lived a thousand years, a thousand turns of tides
Just a thousand leaves in autumn and a thousand ways to try
Oh, a thousand
It's just a thousand ways to try
Ways to try
I'm a thousand wakes of springtime and thousand infant cries
Oh, a thousand infant cries
I got sixteen hundred tigers now tied to silver strings
When they plowed in the pastures, oh the mighty heart will sing
Oh, the mighty heart will sing
But I'll always be blamed for the sun going down with a sigh
But I'm the light in the middle of every man's fog
I bend my arrows now in circles and I shoot around the hill
If I don't get you in the morning, by the evening I sure will
By the evening I sure will
Because I'm the fire on the mountain you have lit up in your dream
But also water on the fountain you could send myself on me
You could send myself on me
Because I'll always be blamed for the sun going down with a sigh
But I'm the light in the middle of every man's fog
And no I never meant to say these words but yes you ought to know
That the dark in what I've always been, it will not ever go
No it will not ever go
And for so I lived a thousand years, a thousand turns of tides
Just a thousand leaves in autumn and a thousand ways to try
Oh, a thousand
It's just a thousand ways to try
Ways to try
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Thousand Ways Lyrics as written by Kristian Matsson
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I think the song is about a Man telling his Ex that she will never forget him and that he will live "for ages I'm a thousand turns of tides" in his Ex's mind, where he will live forever and the memory of him will turn round and round in her mind.And although he will "always be blamed for the sun going down with a sigh" meaning he will always be blamed for the ending of their relationship ;he is still "the light in the middle of every man's fog" meaning that her future lovers don't matter because she will never forget him. He is light, her true love and every other future lover is just fog. It also means she will look for the love they had and him, "the light", in every relationship she has with other men, "the fog". The line "If I don't get you in the morning, by the evening I sure will" means that if she does not think of him in the morning she will think of him in the evening because he will always be in her thoughts.In the lines "And no I never meant to say these words but yes you ought to know/That the dark in what I've always been, it will not ever go/No it will not ever go" he is saying he didn't want to tell her this but he will always live in the dark recesses of her mind,the memory of him will never go. At the end he once again says he will live a thousand years in in the tide of her mind as he will turn round and round in her mind and she will try a thousand ways to forget him.
@vargasf2 this is so good I love your interpretation. Please do one on one of my favorite songs.