| The Lone Bellow – Teach Me to Know Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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1. Oof, I agree with the above, lots of transcribing mistakes. I submitted a fixed (imo) version, we'll see if it takes. 2. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE The Lone Bellow! But this song, even in a more accurate version, I kinda get the impression the band put in some placeholder lyrics as they roughed out the song, and then never went back and changed those words. 3. It kind of makes sense? I think? My guess is the meaning has to do with ancestry of all things. "First born, carried promise of the old one, you're the same but somehow different, you bear the burdens of the line". The firstborn is feeling the weight of his ancestry. The next verse, "It breaks in...." has me completely perplexed. Something is coming to this firstborn kid on a morning that seemed at first like any other morning. No idea what this something is. And I'm not sure what is carrying the firstborn away in the chorus. 4. Next verse, nice contrast between uncertainty over an eon of time vs the immediacy of these burning simple seconds. Someone or something is bringing up short the firstborn. Some realization? The call of his forefathers and mothers? I dunno. 5. I think the firstborn is asking his ancestors to "teach me to know my number of days"? Not sure how to interpret "Hold 6. The funny thing is that even though I have little idea what this song means, I sing lead on it in my band's cover of it. And I LOVE singing this song! So I guess, lyrics, schmyrics :) |
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