| James Taylor – Never Die Young Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Seems pretty obvious to me that this is about some hippie friends he knew, a couple, who died young. The tone is deeply loving and even celebratory, in the face of a tragedy. "We were ring around the rosy children" = we were hippies "They were circles around the sun" = they were even more transcendent than the rest of us. "Circles around the sun," planets, gods, or untouchable god-like people. Perhaps they did more drugs. He goes on to talk about their unbreakable spirit and romance and happiness, and then repeats several times, "hearts were broken." They died young, and moved on to "another land beneath another sky." They probably died of an overdose. It seems like the main point of this song is to "hold them up" to celebrate them and their love and their life, and even their death, because they were such beloved special people. |
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