| Half Moon Run – Full Circle Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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No interpretations yet?! Well... Here's my ramble, then! To me it seems to be about drug/alcohol addiction and/or general confusion and delusion. "At first a sharpish pain that returns as a thought That the needle in your skin won't bring you closer to god" "And the sparks are always flying cause you drink for relief" The person is struggling, trying to find relief in their addiction, but still conscious enough to realize that they're not doing fine. "All hopeless with old coffee and a medical text It’s too easy knowing nothing blowing off the rest And the riddles in the pages leaving too much to guess And the worry cracks a fracture from your hip to your chest" I think it's as if the person is overanalyzing everything. They get anxious about not having an answer to everything. The riddles is the pages seem to me as mysteries of life, ore problems that one can't resolve, no matter how much time and energy they spend trying to do so... And this very incapacity to find answers to these riddles creates an important worry to an already anxious mind. Perhaps that's what leads to the person addiction (or maybe what the addiction leads to, in fact.) "I watch as your head turns full circle" I see this as a metaphor of something cyclical. A never ending vicious circle, hard to get out of. Hence I think my previous paragraph goes along with this cycle. The person is lost ("lost in your travels and a spiritual book") and anxious, leading them to use more drugs/alcohol to try to find relief, to ease their mind. But the effect of the drugs/alcohol creates even more confusion and delusion, more anxiety... Then it starts over again. Finally, despite this person's habits and addiction, despite their behaviour, he still has got support from the narrator of the song: "Is that the best that I can do? As I watch as your head turns full circle" "With the heart of a child and the wit of a fool It’s a wonder why I don’t try to build a wall around you" The narrator recognizes the struggling person's good nature, good heart, but knows their mind and wit are not clean. He knows the person needs help, he wants to provide them help, but yet knows he's helpless. He's wondering if it's the best he can do, if there's anything more he could do to help, as his friend is stuck in this never ending cycle. The narrator sees that no matter he does, his friend is not doing any better, not changing, hence he wonders why he "doesn't try to build a wall around them"... I think it's a rather sad song. Trying to help someone out of such a situation, or trying to help clearing their mind a little, but not achieving it. I might be wayyyyy off, but that's how I personnally understand the lyrics! |
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| Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Makes sense, actually. "Joffrey was strong-willed as a child and has an uncontrollable temper not unlike his mother's and an unchecked sadistic streak. He has little sense of right or wrong, which often leads him to trouble, especially when he loses his temper and when things go wrong, he always blames the problems on others. Despite being willfull he is reckless, vicious, cruel and not very intelligent all of which combine to make him prone to irrational and bad judgements." http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Joffrey_Baratheon |
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| Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Well, this beautiful song makes leaves me a little puzzled. As many others wrote, I’m torn between the man-woman relationship and the father-son relationship… I feel as if both work, but there are some details that make me hesitate. So I’ll go with pros / cons of both interpretations. My first thought was that this is about a relationship, as many have stated. The man talks to himself except for the chorus, in which he speaks to the loved one (or the one whom he cares about). He is disappointed / mad at himself because of the poor choices and decisions he's made that led to the separation. I think this interpretation would make sense, if only because Marcus Mumford stated himself that "It’s a very personal story, so I won’t elaborate upon too much. Suffice to say, it was a situation in my life I wasn’t very happy with or proud of...". I don't know much about his past, but to me these words seem like he did screw up in a previous relationship (whether it is love, friendship, or family oriented). So perhaps this first interpretation is the closest one to the story behind the meaning of the song. (After all, of course if he fucked something up, it is something he won’t take pride in.) BUT, there is a part where it wouldn’t really make sense in a man-woman relation interpretation: "Now learn from your mother Or else spend your days biting your own neck" ... I strongly believe this looks like a reference to a father-son relationship. Relates to an absent father; the little guy has to learn from his mother and to rely on her. It is like saying: "learn from your mother, or else stand all by yourself (biting your own neck), there's your only choice, because you can’t rely on me (father)" /// Or also: "Learn from your mother, not from me (father)". Plus… After analyzing the lyrics a little further, I personally believe that it actually looks very much like an apology, or at least a confession, of a father to his son. In that case, the man speaks to the same person throughout all the song. I especially love the "it was your heart on the line" bit. One often hears absent (physically or morally) parents confessing that they didn't realize the wrong they were doing to their children, hence the "it was your heart on the line" part. It seems like the father now realizes that he was not the only one involved, and that other people were hurt all the while. BUT, I think there is a certain importance in the “this time” part of the chorus. “I really fucked it up THIS TIME”. This line doesn’t make much sense in the father-son interpretation. An apology of a father would relate more of a long-time failure (or at least that’s how I would see it in the rest of the song), so unless the father did something that was the straw that broke the camel’s back, it looks way more like a man who made a decisive mistake that just ruined the relationship with his loved one. You know, THE mistake that is just the one too much… Then that would be why he says that he really fucked it up “this time”. (All in all, I think there is a huge gap between “I really fucked it up.” and “I really fucked it up this time”.) Finally, I think the strength of Mumford & Sons is that all their songs can be interpretated in many different ways. So I do believe that the story behind these lyrics ARE about a relationship gone wrong after poor decisions and choices; in other words, the guy screwed up and lost the significant person in the song to whom he admits that he "really fucked it up", but it seems like one can see more father-son relationship references in it. What do you guys think? Does it make sense at all? |
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