| Future Islands – Shadows Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Amazing song, I think it's the best one on the album. And this album is full of great songs. There are some pretty obvious themes here, most notably how the past/regret casts its shadows on us. In the song, "light" is hope/love and "shadows" are the past. The opening of the song lays this out pretty plainly: "My window opens on your heart Yet shadows divide our worlds with loss The light setting, in the corner of my room Isn't enough, but is it for you?" The question here is, can you leave your past behind and move towards the hope and promise of a new love/relationship? Where I get hung up are on the biblical/literary references, like: "And dance the dance of Dante, entreating you... I'm walking a ghost, through the Garden of Eden's ruins..." Not exactly sure how these lines connect to the bigger theme of the shadow of the past haunt us, but I'm going to give it some more thought. |
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