| Fleet Foxes – Sun It Rises Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I believe this song is based on a poem called "The Sun Rising" written by the sixteenth/seventeenth century metaphysical poet John Donne. In the poem, the narrator speaks directly to the sun, expressing his anger towards its rising. He knows the sun will start the day anew and take him from his lover whom with he lie in bed. The narrator harasses the sun throughout the poem and wonders, "must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?". The narrator's internal conflict with the "motions" of the sun is resolved in the final stanza of the poem when he realizes "thy duties be to warm the world, that's done in warming us". He realizes he cannot reasonably be this enraged with the sun. Fleet Foxes takes this idea and uses a more optimistic approach. He says "hold me dear into the night", or enjoy the precious time they have together, because "the sun will rise soon enough" and tear them apart. | |
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