| London Grammar – Stay Awake Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Some great interpretations here. Mine is similar, but slightly different. Having been at the bedside of a dying loved one, this song evokes all of those feelings and fears, and happy recollections that one has in that sad and inevitable situation we all find ourselves in at some time in our lives. The first verse feels like that typical deathbed bargain being struck, trying to be for that dying person what they need, when they cannot act for themselves. I have seen and felt this on a few occasions, when the loved one is shutting down, cannot communicate, and you are frantic in trying to keep them alive whilst they die. The 3rd verse reminds me of a friend of mine, whose husband was dying of cancer at home. She loved him totally, and felt that as he was going, he was taking her heart and soul with him, and that she was not worthy of him (a common feeling for spouses sitting by the deathbed of their partners). The chorus and refrain is the promise, that they will meet again, and on the other side, where time is not linear, she will be there and he is to go find her. It is the promise that as we all die, we will all meet again in the afterlife, possibly instantly, as time has no meaning there. |
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| London Grammar – Non Believer Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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This is a gem of a song and I am surprised it doesn’t have any interpretations as of me scribbling this one down. Although, as with some of the best London Grammar songs, it’s imagery is subtle and has a touch of the surrealist, and is difficult to pin down. I have listened to this song over and over, and it doesn’t paint an obvious picture to my mind, but invokes feelings attached to specific life events, which makes it so good. But without wanting to damage this effect, and having thought about this song a lot, my interpretation, for what it’s worth, is that it’s about a religious figure. Probably an obscure one if it is. But, in my western upbringing, it draws on the story of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, possibly borrowing from the apocrypha and other interpretations of the characters (as portrayed in the movie “Mary Magdalene” (2018). The singer perhaps is one of the apostles, warning Jesus of Mary’s fitness for the Discipleship, on account of her being a woman and reputation as a prostitute. And perhaps Jesus’s reputed favoured love for her (possibly sexual in nature), over the other disciples too? Alternatively, it could be that it’s the moment when Mary testifies to the other disciples that she saw Jesus risen again, and was initially disbelieved by some? It’s seems the singer is talking to Jesus as a idealist who “healed the earth behind a broken creature” - a reference to his own crucifixion? Then the moving lines of “what we are and what we need, are different things”, is an obvious universal truth, but one which might refer to Jesus being a human being, denied earthly needs such as sexual love and a family life? Or perhaps his divinity vs. the earthly needs of his human form? Or Jesus’s teachings that we just need love (and to love), but we are in fact in biblical and Christian beliefs, born sinful and mainly exist as hateful creatures? Whatever the inspiration for this song, the fact that it is called ‘non believer’, makes it impossible for me to see it as anything but a religious vignette of some kind. I hope others can put some other perspective on it ???????? |
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