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Band of Horses – The Funeral Lyrics 14 years ago
This song is about a crumbling relationship. He is in a relationship where both people want to feel powerful: "I'm coming up only to hold you under
I'm coming up only to show you wrong"

When they started the relationship, they thought they knew each other, but they realized they were wrong:
"And to know you is hard and we wonder
To know you all wrong, we were"

They feel terrible about fighting. they want to call the other, but are too scared. So they wait until the next morning for everything to calm down:
"Really too late to call, so we wait for
Morning to wake you; it's all we got"

Their friends told them that they were good people. But it was only to make them feel better:
"To know me as hardly golden
Is to know me all wrong, they were"

And the guy wants the relationship to continue, but he's ready to let her go if she wants:
"At every occasion I'll be ready for a funeral
At every occasion once more is called a funeral
Every occasion I'm ready for the funeral
At every occasion one brilliant day funeral"

The tree stands for life itself and the relationship. When the tree is young, it is strong and green. It has leaves that represent dreams. But as it gets older, its leaves fall, and the tree begins to die. So the tree is going to die, but that doesnt mean a new tree can't be born.




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Strata – Stay Young Lyrics 16 years ago
This song is about living in modern society while still keeping your innermost values.

Nothing to lose is a path you can choose
and it feels just right at the time.
Then one day you awake with a fear you can't shake

this part talks about a young person living life to the fullest and being happy, until one day he finds himself in a bad job with nothing exciting happening. He's scared because he wonders what happened to the young happiness.

But can you still remember your very first kiss
or the future you hoped for when we were still kids?
Stay young, stay young.

this part talks about how sometimes young people have the biggest dreams ever but when they get older they dont believe in themselves as much and settle for something less.

There are constants like gravity, heartbreak and shame,
you can never out-run them,
they're part of your name
like lessons you learn from a past you can't change,
stay young, stay young

this basically says that you will experience hard times in your life but you gotta keep believing in your values that you had when you were younger.

for a lifetime of paying dues and ruthless reviews,
yeah it's hard not to end up a cynic when everyone's too scared to walk in your shoes
but can work up the nerve to be critics.

this part talks about how sometimes people can judge you when they themselves are just as bad. Also it talks about how if you truly stand up for what you believe in and keep your younger values that everyone will judge you but you still gotta keep living that way.

Don't lose your soul.
Don't give up control.
It's the business end of a loaded gun,
facing tomorrows of black, useless lungs
with nothing but lies left on tips of our tongues,
stay young, stay young!

This part means that you shouldnt give up control of your life. Its your life and you can do whatever you want with it. So dont think that you have to settle for being something less than you want. Business end of a loaded gun means that you should stand up for what you believe in rather than shooting everything you love just because "its business." Facing tomorrows black useless lungs and lies on tips of our tongues means simply that if you let others control your life and dont believe in urself and lose your innermost values, at the end of your life you will be proud of nothing. All the bad habits you got into and all the lies and falsehoods that you swore upon.


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