| The Tallest Man on Earth – Criminals Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think this song is about someone who left his life in the city to spend time in the wilderness. He went to the wilderness where there was no 'law around the bend' I like the lyric, "Come see the hiding in rain, come see the stillness in all them ones." There is something special about being out away from the roads and buildings, hiding from the rain in your tent or under a tree. And there is also something very special about the stillness in nature when you get away from everyone. "And there were the nights when you thought we would just surrender," tells me that he spent some very cold nights outside and he was tempted to come back to the comfort of the city. Similarly, "when you flew from your sheets where your hours gone, you never sleep and no one ever thought you would," points out that he left his sheets to go sleep somewhere where he never really slept all that well. "There are illusions and then just not even wanting, to walk around a shiny peak of snow, what a picture that is to be saved for us, how it’s standing like it’s just for us to know" - This reminds me of how the outdoors can have this romantic illusion that it is this blissful place, but in reality it is truly wilderness and very difficult to live in. There are times when we don't want to go out into the cold. As such, the wilderness isn't where we call home, but it's rather something we visit and then daydream about later on. He changes to first person, "there was a time in my life when I was carried by all of you, now I run like a man still don’t know what I dive into." I think this says that the man in the song is kristian himself and that this life of escaping the city to the wilderness was what he once lived by. And even now he still finds himself running away to adventures. No idea what this has to do with Napoleon though. |
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