| Chris Stapleton – Either Way Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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The correct lyrics are at http://www.chrisstapleton.com/song/either-way/ . In particular, it's I WON'T love you either way, not I wanna love you either way, which is rather different in meaning. |
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| Mumford & Sons – After the Storm Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Having "I won't die alone" when the actual lyric is "I WILL die alone" pretty much flat out changes the meaning of the song from what he's actually singing. | |
| Mumford & Sons – Not with Haste Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| The key question for me seems to be this: Who is the "They" referred to in the chorus? | |
| Mumford & Sons – After the Storm Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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One addendum: Note that the pronoun changes between the chorus and the verses. Yes, there will come a time with no more tears, but for someone else, not for the singer. |
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| Mumford & Sons – After the Storm Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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For me it's not so much about hope as the loss of hope "You must know life to see decay. But I won't rot" Why isn't he rotting? Not because he's strong, but because there's no life there left to rot. "That's why I hold with all I have" What does he hold to? The earlier times, "I cling to what I knew". He's lost now, so all he can do is hold on to the past, the way things were before whatever this is storm is that happened to him. All he can do is hold on to the past, wait, and hope that "there will come a time" when whoever he is singing this to comes back to him. But even he knows that it's far more likely that he "will die alone, and be left there". |
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| Mumford & Sons – Lover of the Light Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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John 3:19-21 may be relevant here. In the King James translation: "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." |
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| Phillip Phillips – Tell Me A Story Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Interesting to compare the "scared of what's behind" lyric with the similar phrase from Mumford and Sons' "After the Storm" ("Well I'm scared of what's behind, and what's before"). I'm curious if it's just a coincidence or an intentional homage. | |
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