| Josh Ritter – In the Dark Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Totally. I agree. In fact, my very first impression was that the song was written from the lost followers of Bin Laden: We started looking for you In the darker caves We had a lot of love We thought would light the way Then: We thought you were a saint But the halo was an eye It's hard to see how there could be So much dark inside the light As if the followers - those lost and hurt men and women who desperately wanted to believe in something, desperately lost in love and fear, were led astray. Bin Laden couldn't live up to his word, just a faded halo...: We tell ourselves down here The same chambers fed by veins The same maze of love and fear The followers also live in the dark chambers, hidden from being caught, perhaps literally also in the caves along with other Al Queda, cant' distinguish the difference between love and fear, the love of a leader, the fear of what they thought the Americans were 'doing' to them. Then, when Bin Laden went further into hiding, the followers cried 'Don't leave us in the dark', in the caves literally without light, and metaphorically without the light of a leader, who went astray and who now only offered darkness... Powerful. |
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