| Tally Hall – Hidden in the Sand Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Note that no where in the lyrics that it's interpreted that this was a woman he was talking about. This is also how I interpreted the song, the lyrics can have many different meanings. We were playing in the sand And you found a little band Two people were playing in the sand, the songwriter one of them as he is narrating the song. The other person had found something in the sand while they were playing. I think they were bestfriends or lovers at the beach. The little band was shells at sea washing away into the sea. I think signaling death. Sea shells washing off the beach and disappearing. You told me you fell in love with it Hadn't gone as I planned The person told the narrator that they had fallen in love with the shells ( the band ).The person was suicidal and wanted to leave like the shells disappearing in the water and that wasn't what the narrator had planned. When you had to bid adieu Said you'd never love anew The person was going away and wishes happiness to the other. The person told the narrator that they had no one else they loved like the narrator. I wondered if I could hold it And fall in love with it too The narrator is wondering if they could hold the shells, and fall in love with them like the person had. Therefor leaving the earth. You told me to buy a pony The person had told the narrator to love someone else before ( before they were gone ) But the Narrator had interpreted it differently and as "to buy a pony" which is sort of a sub phrase of the phrase "i want a pony". "i want a pony" usually means they want something impossible, so here I think the narrator was thinking that the person was wishing something impossible on them. But all I wanted was you The narrator only wanted them. "was you" is important here. I think it would be "but all I want is you" if the other person was alive or present in the narrators mind/life. The narrator had only wanted the other person. |
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