| Bastille – The Silence Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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To me, this is what the song means. In the first verse, he is talking to a loved one, remembering how they would always tell him stories about their past, remembering how they filled the silence so well and he always enjoyed listening to them. At the same time he is begging the person to do it again, to fill the silence that has fallen upon them. The pre-chorus (Now you've hit a wall) is saying that the person has- well, hit a wall. Like they've been shocked, and they don't know what to say at all. The "It's not your fault" part suggests that it was something someone else said to them, maybe the singer himself (which would be Dan Smith)? The "and you've hit it hard" tells you that the person didn't take whatever was told to them very well. The chorus is Dan sort of freaking out and being like, "Please, just say something." Like maybe he confessed something that this person didn't approve of or simply didn't expect. He's saying. "Please, say something, show some kind of reaction. It's not enough to just stand there looking shocked, you've got to say something before I burst from the suspense in the silence." Next verse. "Tell me a part of your history that you've never said out loud." The singer is asking the other person to share something about his/herself that /he/ doesn't know, to shock him into silence. "Pull the rug beneath my feet" = "Go ahead, tell me something that will send /my/ world crumbling down." I honestly have no idea what the bridge is about. Anyways, overall, I take it like this: The singer told a close friend or family member some big secret, confessed something to them. And the person is just shocked into silence, standing there, dumbstruck. And the singer is just sitting here, fidgeting, waiting for them to say something, /anything/, to just fill the silence. Because as long as there is silence, the singer is prey to his own thoughts, and he's wondering what his friend's reaction will be, whether or not they'll still be friends. He's just saying, "C'mon, spit it out. I want to hear your actual reaction, and if you don't fill the silence and give it to me now, I'll start dreaming up what your reaction /could/ be, and it will be horrible." Yup. I dunno, maybe this is completely wrong, but it makes sense to me. |
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