| Purity Ring – Obedear Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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To me, this is about embracing and learning from the hard times in your life. "our wide toes plunged into the weeping shale to tear our skin up off from the bottom leaves our ankles bare" - This verse brings to mind a rough time in life. - "Plunge" suggests that the times weren't fully expected, and paired with "tear our skin up from the bottom, leaves our ankles bare", illustrates a state of being uncomfortable. "don't just wander back and forth and leave it" - Don't ignore this pain. "build it into pinnacles and shrines of some some ghastly predicament of mine you'll find" - Pinnacles: the most successful point; the culmination. - Shrines: structures regarded as holy - Ghastly: unpleasant and frightful. - Predicament: an unpleasant, or embarrassing situation. - Embrace the pain, turn it into something that can be loved. "oh but dear the sky is low gather up its harm in gauze with grateful arms" - The sky is low: Feeling blue. - "Gather up its harm in gauze with grateful arms": Again saying be thankful for the hardship. "oh my dreams come back to me" - Remembering goals and happiness. "oh my wrinkles build on me" - As you get older and have more life experiences, you get wrinkly. - Wrinkles could also be used here similarly to how most would use "scar". A mark on your body that shows what you've been through. Stress causes wrinkles. |
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