| David Gray – Disappearing World Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I shall tell you EXACTLY what this song means, so that you don't have to think its meaning is relative or some such nonsense. After all, to the artist it meant one thing in particular, and that is what we really want to know, right? First thing to acknowledge is that the bridge which starts with "I'll be..." about 3/4 through the song is actually a different song which David Gray just jammed into this one, which is unfortunate. It's the worst part of the song, musically and lyrically, and it doesn't go with the meaning of everything that comes before the bridge and after. Those parts do all match together in meaning and logic though, and their total meaning is this. David is on drugs which are wearing off. He is alone, from a high vantage point overlooking a city as night is falling over it in winter. He feels this strange moving feeling as he looks at the world and realizes it's all going to end some day. The lines of cars making a thread, the tall buildings, the seasons, and all the people; it's all just something that is here for a short time, and he feels sort of overwhelmed by the privelege, and the sweet sadness, of the idea that he is here seeing this amazing world, that will one day be gone. The red and gold are car lights and street lights and building lights respectively, which shows you that most sad/beautiful/moving to him in his drug state is the idea that people won't be here forever. That is the one and only meaning of the song. Anything else you read is nonsense. |
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