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Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man Lyrics 12 years ago
I think, that this verse is reference to the quote by Hemingway: "A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ” from The Old Man and The Sea.

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Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man Lyrics 13 years ago
I couldn´t sleep last night
Cause I tried to forget you
In the suffocated air
I resolved to let you go

Twisted all our dreams
Til you became the nightmare
Close it off inside
Or else the hurt is gonna rise

I couldn´t sleep last night
Cause I tried to forget you
Heard the old man aand the sea
Singing low

And the silver fir she cried
Never forget had gone and died
And the babes that clung to her
Had all let go

(Male choir)
My dear she touched my skin
And oh did the skin
Set a burning
My dear she touched my skin

Where once we kissed and ran
The memory scorched the man
I have to tell you dear (ask me to hold you and I...)
Death has become my breathing (far away gone and I...)

My dear she touched my skin (ask me to tell you I...)
And oh she did, she touched my skin (holding the ghost of a man I...)
Where once we kissed and ran (ask me to tell you I...)
This madness haunted the man (holding the ghost of a man...)

Still I´m holding out my hand
Standing by my haunted man
Yes, your ghosts have got me too
But it´s me and you
I can´t run...

Still I´m holding out my hand
Standing by my haunted man
Yes, your ghosts have got me too
But it´s me and you
I can´t run...

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Bat for Lashes – Laura Lyrics 13 years ago
Well, I think that "Laura" is Natasha and actually everbody of us.
"When your smile is so wide and your heels are so high, you can´t cry..." It means that she can´t show her real emotions in public life. As how each of us, when we are sad, unhappy or when we have melancholic mood, we can´t just seat and cry. Sometimes we have to pretend we are happy and everything is OK.
And if you saw some Bat for lashes´s interviews, you could see how she´s smiling all the time. She looks so happy and optimistic. But her song prove us, that she is sad sometimes. But she just can´t show it.

And also I think, that this song is about love, which is destroying us and we know it. "You're the train that crashed my heart
you're the glitter in the dark..."
But we also know, that we need it, because it´s the only think, which can save us. It´s our glitter in the dark and it gives us a hope...

PS: Sorry for my english :)

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