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Keane – A Bad Dream Lyrics 12 years ago
Keane are Nihilists, who have a strong sense of truth.

Why do I have to fly - Why are there expectations on anything?
Over every town up and down the line? - What do you expect of me? Why a solid path or 'line'?
I'll die in the clouds above - Death is a part of life. This is undeniable. I'll die ready in the 'clouds' of truth - as I live the truth.
And you that I defend, I do not love - I give to you my being, accept my death, accept reality, but i can't see the same thing in you. Yet I still defend you - with all your imperfections. I am here, present, real. Do you love?

I wake up, it's a bad dream - I wake up and accept life, reality, truth. People are dreaming because they do not accept reality.
No one on my side - Very few know the truth.
I was fighting - In my life, I have spent many of my days fighting the truth, desperately trying to label it, understand it.
But I just feel too tired to be fighting - I wake up and accept that I am tired, this is ok. There is nothing else to it. Why fight the truth?
Guess I'm not the fighting kind - Human was not made to fight like the animals. You fight until your dead, so why fight if we all are here to live. Accept this

Where will I meet my fate? - What is next for me in life?
Baby I'm a man, I was born to hate - I'm a human, hating is what i do, this is ok. Accept this as I accept death.
And when will I meet my end? When will I die?
In a better time you could be my friend - If you knew the truth too, perhaps you could understand me, and we could live blissfully.

RPT CHORUS

Wouldn't mind it - Don't really care, but would be nice,
If you were by my side - Self explanatory
But you're long gone - You are fearful
Yeah you're long gone now - You are fearful and not in the present
Yeah

Where do we go? - Where now?
I don't even know - I don't know, don't have to. I want to let it come.
My strange old face - Yes my face is strange, accept it. I do.
And I'm thinking about those days - I'm thinking about the past, right now.
And I'm thinking about those days - I'm thinking about the past, right now

RPT CHORUS

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James Blake – Limit to Your Love Lyrics 12 years ago
I believe this song critiques the character of one who is superficial in their approach to loving others. The best example of this is in the lyric:

"Like a map with no ocean" - The map being the physical object which serves as an indicator for traversing the ocean. Without an ocean, the map remains only an item.

"Like a waterfall in slow motion" - The beauty of the waterfall is captured only in fragments. A waterfall is a reflection of the flow of nature. To slow it down is to deceive the viewer into seeing only the beauty of the water and not where it comes from.

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