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Editors – Lights Lyrics 19 years ago
I was watching a football match and upon the goalkeeper putting his body on the line to stop a goal and succeeding in doing so, the commentator says "fortune favours the brave".

I shouldn't have mixed up "rich" with "fortune". Ah well, hopefully this is a better explanation.

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Editors – Lights Lyrics 20 years ago
I'm going along with johnanthonycox here.

I think this song is about the fear of sleeping with someone and the ways in which it can be delayed/ prevented.

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Editors – Lights Lyrics 20 years ago
"Oh, if fortune favours the brave
I am as poor as they come"

I think the two lines suggest that people who are brave tend to be richer than those who aren't.

The person then uses this to imply that he/she is far from brave by suggesting that there is no poorer person.

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