| Mumford & Sons – Roll Away Your Stone Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Wow, I really could have used a proof-read or two. My favorite mistake is my use of "udder" instead of "utter" :-D. I promise you it mostly makes sense, despite the grammar and punctuation. | |
| Mumford & Sons – Roll Away Your Stone Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Just two thoughts about interpretations to give the best power and emotion to the song... First two main points, given tone it seems that the "you" from the beginning and from the end of the song are the same, not two different entities. The character at the beginning that the singer is speaking to saying they don't want to be alone, is the same one at the end that they feel liberated from. Secondly, it sounds like it may not be darkness that is surrounding the singer, but rather the word "darkness", the term. "Darkness is a harsh term don't you think? And yet it dominates the things I see... he is defending all that he sees and questioning whether it is darkness. Roll away your stone, I’ll roll away mine Together we can see what we will find Don’t leave me alone at this time, For I'm afraid of what I will discover inside So basically, at the beginning we start with someone who wants to put the singer under some sort of control (whether this be control from religion, relationships, alcohol, other drugs, etc. is really all up to the listener). At the beginning, the singer says open up to me and I will open up to you, they show a very clear desire to give a try to whatever it is the other person is offering (god, a meaningful relationship, sobriety, etc.), but they are also afraid (don't want to be left alone) either due to past trauma or of naivete relating to the subject at hand. Cause you told me that I would find a hole, Within the fragile substance of my soul And I have filled this void with things unreal, And all the while my character it steals But wait, it turns out that the other character has used some sort of degradation of the main character. In the effort of whatever they wished to attempt, they have been accusing the singer of having a hole in his soul. This could easily be sobriety, love life, jesus, anything in life that people are willing to declare that you absolutely must have, that you are not complete if you don't have it, etc. etc. So basically, the singer is having their current state of life attacked and told he needs to make a change (whether he needs to or not is again, up to the listener, I like to think he's fine as he is). Darkness is a harsh term don’t you think? And yet it dominates the things I see Here I feel the singer is more thinking aloud then talking to the other character... They are being bombarded with people (or the one person) telling them that their current existence is bathed in darkness, and the singer feels that this is a little extreme, they start to doubt the other character. It seems that all my bridges have been burned, But you say that’s exactly how this grace thing works It’s not the long walk home that will change this heart, But the welcome I receive with the restart The doubt continues, the singer realizes that links he used to have have been destroyed, things he once did cannot be done anymore, etc. But when confronted with this the other character assures the singer that this is how it should be. It's not going back to the old ways that will make them a "better person" but the complete and udder change of personality. The "you are not fine how you are, you must be this way" type of logic. Darkness is a harsh term don’t you think? And yet it dominates the things I see Darkness is a harsh term don’t you think? And yet it dominates the things I've seen Same as above except more and with stronger realization... The singer is coming to terms with the life he used to lead. Stars hide your fires, These here are my desires And I won't give them up to you this time around And so, I’ll be found with my steak stuck in this ground Marking the territory of this newly impassioned soul The singer sees that the other character should not have been trusted, they see that they themselves are the master of their own desires. They say now I will be my own person, and decide for myself what my true values are. My soul is mine, and I will take responsibility for it. But you, you’ve gone too far this time You have neither reason nor rhyme With which to take this soul that is so rightfully mine They repeat this conclusion, had the other character not given them so much harassment and bombardment of assurances that the way they used to live was evil or empty or equivalent, then this may not have occurred, but the other character went to far, and the singer has broken free of their attempts at control. The singer realizes that, in essence, the other character is full of it. So they declare that the other character cannot have control over them, for the singer now has control over himself/herself. It doesn't matter whether it's about religion or drugs or relationships or cookies for that matter. All that matters is that the singer found themselves, got over a preexisting trauma or ignorance, and took control of their life. Where they went from the end of the song is also not as important and fully left open to interpretation. What matters is that, wherever the singers life takes them, it will be because the singer wanted to do it, not because someone else is manipulating them into thinking they have to. |
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