| Elbow – The Bones Of You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The second verse according to the album booklet: 'Do I have time? A man of my caliber? Stood in the street like a sleepwalking teenager? No. And I dealt with this years ago. I took a hammer to every momento but image on image like beads on a rosary pull through my head as the music takes hold. And the sickener hits. I can work 'til I break but I love the bones of you. That I will never escape.' And as mentioned above, it's 'And it's you and it's May', not 'me'. Oh, and 'for fear that you will wake' - no 'the' :) Love this song. The imagery is beautiful. |
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| Elbow – The Bones Of You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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'Sickener hits' is what it says in the album booklet. You're right about 'for fear that you will wake', though. |
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| Elbow – The Bones Of You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| According to the lyrics in the album booklet, May was correct, it's now wrong. | |
| How To Destroy Angels – Fur Lined Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Pretty sure it's about pregnancy. Echoing could be a sonogram reference or a reference to a test they do on the baby's heartbeat. When you're pregnant you do discover quite how animal the process of reproduction is. 'everything is right on track' - the baby is measuring as it should. 'this is really happening' - it's amazing how much of a surprise this can be, even when the pregnancy is planned. and 'pushing through the pain' - labour reference that I think speaks for itself :) There's probably more layers to it than that, but I think that's the general starting point. At the end of the day she was pregnant when they were putting this CD together, so I take that as evidence for my argument :) |
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