| Oh Land – Lean Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is my personal interpretation of this amazing song... The singer has had someone in her life who has always been supporting her and worried for her well-being, but in a silent manner, unknown to her, during times when she was asleep/unconscious/mentally or physically unwell/in another faraway place. When other people talked/asked about her he lied to keep her safe, he bore with her misbehaviour/bad attitude for a long time and still protected her. The singer has gone through a traumatic event in her life ("..that lonely night when the lights died out and I turned to the grey side") and it is only now, years later, that she wonders if this person had been helping her through this bad time. It's quite clear from the chorus that this person who has helped the singer is now in some kind of trouble ("out on the bottomless sea") and the singer realises it's time to offer this person her help and support. I suspect this person is the singer's father, since (and I'm not 100% sure on this) someone who could be Oh Land's (Nonna Oland Fabricius') father, Bendt Fabricius, has collaborated on the strings composition of the song (see end credits of the video). The kind of things this person has done for the singer sounds a lot like something a father would do for his daughter, in my opinion. It could also apply to a friend, other family member or lover, but in this case I think the singer has discovered that as her father is getting older, the roles are reversed and it is time for her to be the one supporting him. |
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| Broken Social Scene – Lover's Spit Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Yes, five years later, Kevin still says "Love the one you're with" after performing this song. This meaning is spot on :) | |
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