| Laura Marling – Blackberry Stone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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In Noah and the Whale's song there are two lines- 'Hold my hand as I'm lowered' and later 'Well, I fell in love with a world in you'. Laura seems to be responding to the obvious sadness and loss of the relationship, that it is something she will never forget when she sings 'I'd be sad that I never held your hand as you were lowered, but I'd understand that I'd never let it go'. But, it also seems she wants to move on. The relationship didn't work. You wanted this from me, but I am not going to change who I am for you. Hence, she continues on to say: 'I'd be sad that I never held your hand as you were lowered, but I'd understand that the world does what it does'- the world that he fell in love with, her personality, is how it is and she is not going to change. She then goes on to say how she felt pressured by him.. In Noah's next album, the one full of lament for LM, I think there may a bit of a reference to Blackberry Stone when he sings in Slow Glass: Well I heard you been singing Well I was, what I am Well I never tried to change you, honey I'm your biggest fan and I loved you back then but I don't recognize you now That last line is interesting- Charlie Fink produced her first album. Then she broke up with him. Then she realeased Blackberry Stone as a B-side, it sounding quite a lot different to the album. I Speak Because I Can is quite quite different to Alas, and I suppose this reflects to how shes matured while away from him. Anyway, it could all be coincidence, who knows. Not only is the line 'I'd be sad that I never held your hand as you were lowered' a reference to the line 'Hold my hand as I'm lowered' in the Noah and the Whale's song, but the line 'I'd understand that the world does what it does' by LM could alse be seen as referring to |
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| Noah and the Whale – Slow Glass Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Bit of a reference to Blackberry Stone, where Laura Marling responds to one of Noah and the Whales earlier songs, Hold My Hand as its Lowered. She changes the words to Hold My Hand to say that while she will be sad that she won't hold his hand, 'the world does what it does'- The world referring to they NatW lyric "Well, I fell in love with the world in you".. Kind of like saying, you fell in love with who I am, so you should respect my right to act as I do- if that be breaking up with you for the following reasons.. She sings: And you never did learn to let the little things go And you never did learn to let me be And you never did learn to let little people grow And you never did learn how to see So its kind of hard not to see- Well I heard you been singing Well I was, what I am Well I never tried to change you, honey I'm your biggest fan and I loved you back then but I don't recognize you now As a bit of a reference. The 'I don't recognise you now' is interesting as Charlie Fink had produced her debut album, then they broke up and she released Blackberry stone as a B side (only for it to get onto the next album). I Speak is so different to Alas that I suppose you could see as it as her moving away from Fink's style and closer to her own (or Mumford's) style? |
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