| Editors – When Anger Shows Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I believe the song is specifically about death. "It creeps all over you like a dull ache" - The moment death comes to a person. "Think of all the things your hands could make" - All the things you couldve done with your life. "It pulls you to the ground like soaking wet gloves" Everyone's ultimate destiny, the ground. "The change in your face when anger shows" - He becomes angry when he comes to the realization we all come to at some point of our lives that... "In that moment you realize that Something you thought would always be there Will die like everything else"- ...we all must die. "These thoughts I must not think of Dreams I can't make sense of I need you to tell me it's okay These thoughts I must not think of Dreams I can't make sense of I need you to tell me it's okay" - He is so distraught by the thought of life ending that he knows he shouldn't let it control his life but it's even in his dreams. And he must be comforted even if its by lies, "I need you to tell me it's okay". "You are a sleeping lion In your bed I will not wake you" - Death is unpredictable like a lion, it can strike at any moment. "You're the moment love has passed We all must learn to hate you" - Death is not touched by love as if it has been "passed", and eventually we all become acquainted with it quickly learning to hate it. "You're a memory from before Please, don't let me forget you You're the wolves at my door" - Now that he's realized that death will eventually come and attack like "wolves" that have waiting for him, he doesnt want to forget that realization. "How can you know what things are worth if your hands won't move to do a days work?" - Even though he won't allow death to control his life, his consciouness of his inevitable end will drive him to do the most with his life and not to sit around, not moving, not knowing how precious life really is despite its brevity. |
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