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| Band of Horses – The Funeral Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Simply brilliant I'm glad someone said this there is never one meaning to art it's what the individual takes away from it. Your idea on the song is much the same as my own. I have a very strained relationship with my father we don't see eye to eye and we can't communicate. Every time I hear this song it makes me think about how bad things have gotten between us. I would only come up to hold him under at this point he has wronged me my whole life and never apologized or tried to make amends. Since we never got very close I don"t truly know him and he doesn't truly know me and my family feels the same way about him. "To know you all wrong, we were". "To know me as hardly golden" It seems to me it is about the ideas we have about other people even though we don"t fully know them. The funeral could be the death of the presumptions or the actual death of the person they felt they knew. |
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| Band of Horses – The Funeral Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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It's a song much like poetry you don't have to take the meaning of words literally. It could be the death of bad feelings for someone else or it could be an actual death. Art is in the eye of the beholder much like beauty. Simply because the band had one idea in mind doesn't mean someone else can't come to another conclusion about the same thing. Theres no doubt there talking about funerals its the song title but what kind is the question. |
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| Band of Horses – The Funeral Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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You must be trolling yes? The beach boys directly ripped off Chuck Berry's music note for note. Let's see if I can remember the song it was Chuck's song sweet 16 don't remember what the beach boys song was. White folks ripping off a talented black man that never happened in our history right? The last few notes in a song sounding like another? I can't tell you how many times I've heard a song and it sounded similar to another. If you don't have anything productive to contribute please refrain from making dull thoughtless statements. |
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| Band of Horses – The Funeral Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Whitetide is spot on in my opinion. Now for the beginning of the song it sounds to me like he is singing of someone he knows perhaps a family member that he doesn't have a good relationship with. The line "I'm coming up only to hold you under, I'm coming up only to show you wrong" To me says the person he is singing about doesn't agree with his entire way of life or perhaps treated him badly so the only interaction they would have would be negative. Holding them under could be a reference to his frustration with this person or he feels his presence holds this person down emotionally. "And to know you is hard and we wonder, to know you all wrong we were" He is saying being involved with this person is difficult because of the disagreements they have however he realizes he didn't fully know this person. Saying "we" leads me to believe hes speaking of a group of friends that know this person or his family and he is speaking of a member. "To know me as hardly golden is to know me all wrong, they were". He is reversing it on himself saying they don't know him as they make assumptions that he is "hardly golden" and they are wrong because they don't know what lies in his heart and mind. Death brings about the end of all the presumptions about one another and lets us know what truly matters "at every occasion one brilliant day funeral" this could also be the death of the presumptions. As leafs grow older they wither and fall from their tree. As humans get older most tend to lose hope I feel "to the outside, the dead leafs, they all blow before they died had trees to hang their hope" says this. "They all blow" also says how someone can get lost in this crazy mixed up world. This song speaks volumes to me as I have a very strained relationship with a family member, I think ill of him and I know he thinks ill of me. He treated my very badly so at this point I would only come up to hold him under. |
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