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Mumford & Sons – Holland Road Lyrics 13 years ago
I feel this is a very angry song. feels like an angry break up.
"So I was lost
Go count the cost before you go" is like saying - So it´s over, On your way out look att what you are throwing away.
To the Holland Road i feel could be a metaphor, could be holland road as in amsterdam and the famous redlight district. wich could be subtle way of in anger saying "fuck you whore".
And then how he just sat there as the insults spew and she just kept going to hurt him. while he was cold and showed nothing. And that he is a shamed for something he has done. possibly infidelity.
That she did everything to make him feel bad, and feel even more ashamed.
Then he rises from the corner she as but him in. Wishing her well and moves on. That he is stronger than that. And even though his cracks he still belives.

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