| The Lumineers – Gale Song Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song speaks to me so personally.. It's unreal. Before moving across the world, I connected to a friend I had known forever, we were so in love, but I had to leave. We were heartbroken but I would be home again in a year to my little hometown to visit. We spoke often, but he became more withdrawn, I thought we were growing apart like many of my friends since I left. When I came home for a while a year later we talked about it. In drunken conversation he told me how unhappy he was.. I told him he wouldn't be lost forever, forgetting how claustrophobic a small closed minded town was. In hindsight I realise how incredibly depressed he was, how he hid it because he was a guy afraid of being judged. 'and oh this too will pass, this loneliness won't last for long' my fickle attempt at telling home he would feel better soon. In reality I wasn't there except in that moment. 'I was 10 thousand miles away' literally. I told him I didn't want to leave him but i couldn't stay in that town forever, I wanted to see the world but I'd be there for him if he needed to talk. (4th stanza) He was hurt. 'I loved him all the same' but couldn't make him realise he needed to get out of there. Both our lives carried on, I saw pictures of him on Facebook the next week and he looked happy. (5th) I was alway waiting 'in line' to find someone I felt the same way about, I knew we couldn't be together because our lives were different now. And inevitably I 'let him go'... He took his own life 2 months or so after that drunken conversation. He literally 'fell apart with his broken heart' and I am still coming to terms with the guilt I feel almost 2 years on. The last line. 'It drains from my skin, it does'... I found out over Facebook, the time difference meant I hadn't got my brothers calls. I can still remember the moment that something left me when I saw the posts, it was like part of myself died.. Time has healed though and one day I will listen to this song without my soul breaking into a million pieces. |
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