| Laura Marling – Shine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| That's a beautiful interpretation...even if it's not what she had in mind at the time when she wrote it, the song is very evocative of many times like those, where love is a strain and a pressure, a river flowing against us. Brokeback Mountain reduced me to tears, beautiful film. | |
| Laura Marling – Shine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Given the preceding songs it's more likely bipolar--"My Manic and I" talks about the manic side of a manic-depressive (which today is called bipolar disorder). | |
| Laura Marling – Shine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It's about the terror of that uncomfortable shift from "just a love" to "THE love". She obsesses about the the guy."I have have traveled past your window many times." She says it again, "I have wondered what you're doing every day since last I asked." "I can touch you, while laughing." There is no better exclamation of an introvert's love than this. When an introvert falls in love like, this, it can feel like the first day they step outside into the open air. Love feels like seeing the sun for the first time, wholly and incapable of describing it. "I/You will never go back to being blind" This is not something easily forgotten, you can't forget it, no matter how hard you might try. You can't undo the past, even though many other people do, skipping over their losses in favor of their successes. She is singing a song about true love, a love in a world in which so many things are so easily forgotten. But once you see it, you can't unsee it. And then the rest of your life becomes a journey towards that shine, that wonder that is free from the cares and sins of your previous life, 'I need shine, I need shine, I need Shine.' She is singing about the nature of True Love. |
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