| Mumford & Sons – Hopeless Wanderer Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| i like that! makes sense, thanks | |
| Mumford & Sons – Hopeless Wanderer Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Might be a dumb question... but what exactly does "So leave that click in my head" mean? | |
| Laura Marling – My Manic and I Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Oh! You may also want to listen to "Home" by M&S...several lines in it bear similarities as well. -"I ran away in floods of shame, I'll never tell how close I came." -- I always interpreted this as how close he came to suicide...though that could be off. See Marling's lines on wanting to die where no one could see. -"As I crossed the Holland road, you went left and I went right" Lover's Eyes -- See Marling's lines about "wandering streets." This also speaks to the disconnect and separation between the two. "Since we last parted..." -"Roll out your questions keep them down Let the water lead us home, And I was sorry for what I'd done," Lover's eyes -- "I saw him down by a river," Marling. Mumford seems to be acknowledging her questions/skepticism about religion but tells her to 'keep them down' while the 'waters lead [them] home.' Home = them back together. She does mention in the end that she is "ill" too for still loving him. Seems like a pretty tumultuous relationship regardless of whether you look at My Manic and I, Lover's Eyes, OR Home.... |
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| Laura Marling – My Manic and I Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm not sure when this song was written originally, it only just became available in USA/itunes in June 2011. So, I could be viewing this song completely out of context...but...it seems so reminiscent of Marcus Mumford. The couple split somewhere around the holiday season last year. I know it might be a stretch, but hear me out: "The mountains cover the shape of his nose..." -- Marcus does, admittedly, have a large nose. A lovely nose, but a large one nonetheless. "...the drugs that deceive him, the girls that believe him..." and, "By four he will drink but he cannot feel it" -- Look at the newly written songs by Mumford "Lover's eyes." SOO many lines from it could be direct commentary on these lines from My Manic and I. For example, "I feel numb, beneath your tongue, beneath the curse of these lovers eyes," feeling numb could be alluding to alcohol or drug abuse. "He cannot feel it," = numb. Further, "There is no drink or drug I've tried to rid the curse of these lover's eyes," -- Pretty obvious reference to the old drinking/drugging to forget the ghosts of a past love mentality. The chorus of Lover's Eyes goes, "Do not ask the price I pay, I must live with my quiet rage. Tame the ghosts in my head that run wild and wish me dead. Should you shake my ash to the wind, Lord forget all of my sins, and let me die where I lie beneath the curse of these lovers eyes." Oh the many connections! Reference to "quiet rage" and "ghosts in my head" are certainly indicative of some kind of inner turmoil that is driving him mad. There have been several mentions of bipolar on here and, speaking from experience, depression (and perhaps bipolar) IS quiet rage. He also seems to be resigning to death...making plans for when he will die, which could connect to the "he wants to die" line in Marling's song. ALSO there is a reference to the Lord and to sin. Direct relation to the lines about "his god" and the "gods" that Marling seems to be so skeptical of. "Since last time I saw him...silent and hardened" -- "quiet rage"/he is silent, or quiet at least, and resigned to dying...the song communicates a hardened man, resigned to the fate of an untimely death. I apologize for pontificating at such length, I just am in love with both Marling and Mumford as artists so whenever I see connections and similarities between them, I go a little over board. Like I said, there are comments all the way back to 2008 on here, so who knows if she wrote this about Marcus but Lover's Eyes is VERY recent by Mumford and is perhaps a song to Laura employing some of her own techniques, ideas, and themes... |
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| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – 40 Day Dream Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I dont think this song is literally about drugs... i think he's just comparing their love to the experience of doing drugs. their love gets him high like drugs used to... just a thought. he's worried that their love will be fleeting just like his experience with drugs was. he's so used to drugs/earthly pleasures that don't last that he is worried this love will be just like that. | |
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