| Sleeping At Last – Next to Me Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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This is the "happiest" Sleeping At Last song I've heard so far. Yes, he has lots of beautifully cheerful ones but this one had a childish joy to it. I love that the song relates the feeling of being in love with returning to childhood, comparing the same feelings to the innocence of being a child. These lines make me feel that they are saying "hey, we're adults now, it's hard, but I am gathering all my memories, all the people I used to be, all the people you used to be, and I want us to grow together" When the words came to you for the first time, you knew you were hooked And the pride that you felt at the last page of your first book And the bravery I forced when I sang to an audience of three Well, it took a million wrong notes just to find a single melody and key I know since we've grown we plea for clarity Honestly, nothing's ever made sense til you were next to me, next to me |
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| Sleeping At Last – Earth Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I think this song is a back-and-forth dialogue between humanity and Earth. It can be read from different POVs, for example, the whole song works as a song from man to earth, but I also feel that I can hear Earth itself speaking. Fault lines tremble underneath my glass house. But I put it out of my mind Long enough to call it courage To live without a lifeline. The "Fault lines" can be seen as the tectonic plates and shifts happening under the Earth's crust, or "glass house." But the Earth has been around for crazy long, it has seen so many eras and epochs. It watched the dinosaurs live and die, both out of its own soil and because of the destruction that happens inside it. That's why it decides to "put it out of my mind, long enough to call it courage" What I find beautiful here is that the Earth isn't reduced to one emotion or expression, it's being personified into a very complex character. Although it has been living "without a lifeline" because the Earth itself offers life to everything on it yet, when drastic disasters happen, like the extinction of entire species (maybe even the extinction of humanity one day if we don't get it together), the Earth stays alive, she doesn't die. She continues on, with a "blind eye" that does not know when it all ends. Yet, the Earth feels the pain of disasters along with its inhabitants. We were so afraid, We cried ourselves a hurricane. There were floods, Tidal waves over us, So we folded our hands and prayed. Like a domino, These wildfires grow and grow Until a brand new world takes shape. |
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