| Kings of Leon – 100,000 People Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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This feels like an elegy about the death of a loved one, a funeral and the deep feeling of loss. The call was made to pull the shades, about being informed of the death, with the 'something new', being life without them. People in the corridor, the flowers, are the funeral setting, possibly be in a place out of town or around people that did not know the deceased well "Miles away from places you have been" Or maybe the afterlife. Wide awake encased in a dream could be the sense of mourning and remembering, or a reference to life after death and also the body 'encased' in the casket. 'Your Grace' would be a pastor, and -only to say: 'nothing takes the place' of the departed would be the eulogy. The last two verses and way he sings "nothing takes the place" is heart breaking. All the 'you do's really sink in after repeated listenings. These and the other imagery and references may be indirect and poetic and so not literal. The rest would follow this interpretation. - D. |
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