| Mumford & Sons – I Gave You All Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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That is a very interesting observation MatchstickLee! I haven't read King Lear, but I definitely get what you're saying... I looked at it from a completely different perspective... My interpretation is above in a reply to someone else's post :) |
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| Mumford & Sons – I Gave You All Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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@Talacook Maladroitmortal is right... The word you're talking about is Sympathy. Apathy means lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern.. This has been one of the most difficult songs to interpret because it could be about anything... The verse starting with: "How can you say that your truth was better than ours" could mean all the wars that have been taking place because of different ideologies/religions... I think artists such as Mumford & Sons are opening a new page with cultures that their government considered enemies or inferior to the white race... I am not white, and I see minorities instead of accepting that whites such as Mumford & Sons are trying to mend cultural relationships through music, because music is a universal language, they throw it back in their faces and don't appreciate it just to say that they've "won" and in modern language, payback is a b*&$#. And so the line "If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won" can translate into he wish he really cared and tried to make a difference before all of that stuff started happening. The reason why I can't fully interpret this song in a romantic way is also because of the first two lines... "Rip the earth in two with your mind..." "Seal the urge which ensues with brass wires..." What I don't get is seal the urge to what? As a political science major, I can provide a historical example about the cold war. Again two different ideologies, two hegemons, splitting the earth in two.. And they seal the urge to fight each other with barbed wire (Berlin wall) so no one can escape or attack... But I could be totally wrong. Odds are I am wrong lol... But I can't think of any other explanation :/ But this song still gets me every time I listen to it just because of the apathy line... :) |
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| Mumford & Sons – Timshel Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This is definitely about abortion. Once you get the meaning of "the one to whom you gave life" which is life at conception instead of birth, the rest of the song will make sense... Also if you know the translation of Timshel which is "Thou Mayest" | |
| Mumford & Sons – Timshel Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Yes, finally! Someone else who thinks it's about abortion. After listening to this song at like 3 AM, trying to fall asleep, it hit me... It is totally about abortion, and I was coming on here to see if I'm the only one who figured it out, and apparently other people have as well. With the album having a lot of biblical and religious meanings, it looks like they believe that life begins at the moment of conception, and not when you actually give birth... When you figure that one out, the rest of the song becomes very easy to understand :) |
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