Some saw the sun
Some saw the smoke
Some heard the gun
Some bent the bow

Sometimes the wire
Must tense for the note
Caught in the fire, say oh
We're about to explode

Carry your world
I'll carry your world
Carry your world
I'll carry your world

Some far away
Some search for gold
Some dragon to slay
Heaven we hope
Is just up the road
Show me the way, Lord
'Cause I am about to explode

Carry your world
I'll carry your world
Carry your world
I'll carry your world
Carry your world (Carry your world)
And all your hurt

Carry your world
Carry your world


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Atlas Lyrics as written by Guy Rupert Berryman Christopher Anthony John Martin

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    Perhaps it's possible to interpret the lyrics here as alluding to the age of terrorism we're in right now. "I'm about to explode" immediately brings to mind the suicide bomber.

    If we look at the song through these lens, then the song becomes one that remind us that people fight for different reasons, but it's always one in which they the "I' carries the weight of the world upon himself/herself, so that the "we" doesn't have to explode.

    What the song is saying then, perhaps, is that there is little difference between whether these matyrs "heard the gun" or "bent the bow". "Sometimes, the wire MUST tense for the note", and the those who sacrifice themselves for others can only hope that heaven awaits them "just up the road". Maybe the age of terrorism facing us now is a symptom that tells us that something flawed the way our world is arranged right now.

    IamSootyon February 28, 2016   Link

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