| Mumford & Sons – Below My Feet Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Excellent read on what this song is driving at. I agree, this is a song about death, and the chorus fits in well with what you're offering here. I see the chorus as an invocation of some kind, a poetic verse cast in the style and posture of a prayer. "Keep the earth below my feet" is a reference to the grave; the kindred dead has been buried beneath the ground, in the earth, and this invocation is calling down the blessing of life. In other words, "Let me live" could be a more mundane way of saying the same thing. "For all my sweat, my blood runs weak" could refer to the inevitability of death, that no matter what he does, he can feel himself approaching death. "Let me learn from where I have been / Keep my eyes to serve, my hands to learn" might be a reference to afterlife or whatever outcome may befall after passing through the grave, he wishes for this life and wisdom to go with him, for what he has seen and done to not vanish with death, but continue, maybe even continue through others. |
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