| Mumford & Sons – The Cave Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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or... it also kind of fits as india's break from britain :) you never know - it is maddeningly vague :D |
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| Mumford & Sons – The Cave Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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at least, that is where the phrase "come out of your cave walking on your hands" comes from... it means to drastically turn your life around. so here is my take on it... with all that in mind. but you can take whatever meaning you like from a song ;) this is only what I think he was inspired by. He's left his fears behind he will not give up hope, he finds strength in pain (i.e. Job) he turned his life around (walk out of the cave on his hands) understands his dependence in his Creator (the makers hands) is free from the noose around his neck (frequently the allegory used for sin) and will know his name when it is called again (God calling his chosen) |
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| Mumford & Sons – The Cave Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think you are right about the christian undertones in this song. it seems to me to be based on "Saint Francis" by G K Chesterson, Chapter 5 you'll have to read the whole chapter to feel the full meaning of the song, but here is one paragraph from it: "Francis, at the time or somewhere about the time when he disappeared into the prison or the dark cavern, underwent a reversal of a certain psychological kind; which was really like the reversal of a complete somersault, in that by coming full circle it came back, or apparently came back, to the same normal posture. it is necessary to use the grotesque simile of an acrobatic antic, because there is hardly any other figure that will make the fact clear. But in the inward sense it was a profound spiritual revolution. The man who went into the cave was not the man who came out again; in that sense he was almost as different as if he were dead, as if he were a ghost or a blessed spirit. And the effects of this on his attitude towards the actual world were really as extravagant as any parallel can make them. He looked at the world as differently from other men as if he had come out of that dark hole walking on his hands." http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-francis-by-g-k-chesterton-chapter-v/ |
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