| Mumford & Sons – Lover of the Light Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Agree or disagree as you wish. These are only my opinions. I may be correct in some places, and incorrect in others. I'm pretty sure this song is about Mumford's search for God or spirituality. A lot of their songs have themes of religious searching. I'll explain my thoughts by the lyrics themselves. With a verse, and then thoughts. In the middle of the night, I may watch you go There'll be no value in the strength of walls that I have grown There'll be no comfort in the shade of the shadows thrown But I'll be yours if you'll be mine I'm pretty sure the line 'in the middle of the night, I may watch you go' refers to the come-and-go phenomenon of Mumford's faith. God is there at one moment, but he escapes Mumford's grasp the next. He just can't quite get past a barrier, and his faith keeps fleeting away. The next line, 'there'll be no value in the strength of walls that I have grown' would suggest that if God is gone, the walls he has built up around himself have no meaning. There's no point in the barriers he has built up around his faith if God is not present. It's like having a cage in a zoo without an animal inside. What's the point of the cage? There's no point in having walls to build up around his faith if he cannot find God. The third line, 'there'll be no comfort in the shade of the shadows thrown' means something rather different, but has the same general feeling. There is no point hiding in the shadows if God is not present. If God is not there, there's no point hiding in the shadows. Basically, the whole point of these two lines is that there's pointlessness without God. The fourth line is pretty much an invitation, it would seem. He is saying that if God will come into him, he will give himself to God. It's a spiritual bond he is proposing. Stretch out my life and pick the seams out Take what you like, but close my ears and eyes Watch me stumble over and over Another very spiritual passage. 'Stretch out my life, and pick the seams out.' This is Mumford offering himself wholeheartedly to God, to pick apart, to analyze. To see inside of him. He is giving himself up to God. The second line is Mumford asking God to close his ears and eyes to the world, so he can focus instead on the Holy Trinity. He wants nothing to distract him from the light. And the final line is something most Christians are highly familiar with. Continuous sin. You may give yourself up wholeheartedly to God, but sin is always there. Mumford acknowledges that he will continuously stumble, time and again. But he's giving himself up nonetheless. I have done wrong, so build your tower But call me home and I will build a throne And wash my eyes out never again Similar to the last line. 'I have done wrong, so build your tower.' This is an acknowledgement of sin, and when he says 'so build your tower,' he is referencing a tower of imprisonment. He is kind of turning himself in to the authorities, but to the ultimate authority (God). The next line, 'but call me home, and I will build a throne' signifies Mumford's desire for God to reveal himself to him, and if he did so, Mumford would do anything, and build the kingdom of God on earth. It could also mean something to do with heaven, of course, since 'call me home' could be God bringing Mumford to heaven, but the throne is something to rule from, and so I believe Mumford is referencing the lengths to which he would go to build the kingdom of God on earth. The final line, 'and wash my eyes out never again,' probably references Mumford being made clean before God. Washing yourself in the Bible is obviously very symbolic (baptism!), so washing your eyes is erasing all the evil you have seen, and done, and instead coming to God, and he would make you clean, so washing yourself of your sins is no longer necessary. But love the one you hold And I'll be your goal To have and to hold A lover of the light This basically is merely Mumford's wish for God to love him as he is, and if he does so, Mumford will be a 'lover of the light.' If God should love him as he is, Mumford will turn away from everything, and focus his attention on God. Skin too tight and eyes like marbles You spin me high so watch me as I glide Before I tumble homeward, homeward The first line is alluding to how he is tired of living in this searching pattern. He feels tight, and his eyes are glazed. He doesn't feel right. It is all becoming too much. The last two lines are very easily interpreted. Sometimes the Word of God can send him high, and he feels the presence of God, and feels like it is all coming together, but then it ends, and he tumbles homeward. Back to earth. And that connection with God is gone. I know I tried, I was not stable Flawed by pride, I miss my sanguine eyes So hold my hands up, breathe in, breathe out. The first line is Mumford's failed attempts to come fully to God. He tried to become a servant of Christ, but he 'was not stable.' He just couldn't find God in his searched. The next line is similar. He was flawed by pride. He was too proud to maybe admit that he truly needed God more than anything. And he misses his sanguine (or heavily optimistic) eyes. Because he used to view his search for Christ with an optimistic outlook, but now he's doubting he'll ever find his answers. The final line is a reference to worship, or searching through worship. Calling on the Lord to come into him and fill him with the spirit. He's trying to find that feeling of the Lord coming into him. But love the one you hold And I'll be your goal To have and to hold A lover of the light And in the middle of the night, I may watch you go There'll be no value in the strength of walls that I have grown There'll be no comfort in the shade of the shadows thrown You may not trust the promises of the change I'll show But I'll be yours if you'll be mine So love the one you hold And I will be your goal To have and to hold A lover of the light So love the one you hold And I will be your goal To have and to hold A lover of the light The rest of the lyrics merely continue as they were, so I won't theorize them. But that is basically my thoughts on this song. I love this song, because I've fought the same fight as Mumford is in this song. Faith is a journey, not a destination. Finding God is always a fight. Even when you believe, sometimes there's a wall there, and you can't break through. I relate to this song so much. Okay, that's basically it. Comments are appreciated! |
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| Mumford & Sons – Lover of the Light Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[danielaNOV:12703] I'm pretty sure it's something spiritual and/or religious. Sex seems something very unrealistic for a song with lyrics like this. The lyrics don't fit with that theme. But a lot of them seem to match something between him and God. I've read some interviews and comments with Mumford and the band, and this album (Babel) especially had some religious themes, as did others before it. A lot of spiritual searching, which would highly fit such a song. There's themes of both searching and failure, and spirituality, which put together would equal searching for God. | |
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