| Band of Horses – Older Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| My sense is that this song is about a failed relationship - he makes plans but must abandon them because the person has either passed away, as mentioned above, or the person never matures despite time that goes by and never really becomes capable of a relationship. "Never get older" could mean that the love interest holds onto her youth to the point where she never grows out of childhood, never grows up emotionally. | |
| Band of Horses – Blue Beard Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think it's definitely a song about melancholy, feeling sad, feeling numb ("the sun never shines"). He is trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life if there is so much suffering in it. His earlier intense fears ("night") have turned to a more general sadness now. Even his memories of a special relationship are fading (can't find the letters you wrote me) and these memories are not sustaining him anymore. All in all, he has lost confidence that there is meaning and purpose in life and in his life because of what he has experienced and what he has lost. He has accepted that life is "boring" and "gray", although part of him wants to "break the ice", escape from this life into something that feels better. Ultimately, he believes that life is a joke being played on him (slipping on banana peels like in old silent movies - one character always planted the peels and laughed when the person fell). He is trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life if there is so much suffering in it. |
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