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Lay Me Down Lyrics
I will write you letters
That explain the way I'm thinking now
I will return to you
What I have taken long before
I will return again
When it gets dark and day is done
And lay me down
In the hollowed ground
Down by your side I will stay
So lay me down
And if you wanna stay with me
Then let me know before it's light
I will recoil myself
Into the black and darkest night
And lay me down
In the hollowed ground
Where my father waits I will stay
So lay me down
And lay me down
In the hollowed ground
Down by your side I will stay
So lay me down
That explain the way I'm thinking now
I will return to you
What I have taken long before
I will return again
When it gets dark and day is done
In the hollowed ground
Down by your side I will stay
So lay me down
Then let me know before it's light
I will recoil myself
Into the black and darkest night
In the hollowed ground
Where my father waits I will stay
So lay me down
In the hollowed ground
Down by your side I will stay
So lay me down
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Yup. This song is about being a normal bloke, with a typically Irish sense of romance. And wanting to be buried with the one you love, as you love them that much.
sounds like a poetic suicide note
it's actually about "yer absolutely average workin' bloke" according to glen. just a normal guy who works all day and has a cup of tea with his girlfriend and his biggest romantic notion in life is to be buried beside her.
At one gig he joked:
"This song is about buying your girlfriend a grave for Christmas...
...and she doesn't really dig it."
It is the perfect love song.
On the live album from 2002 Breadcrumb Trail, Glen this song is about the "importance of burning letters." He mentioned that he'd been lovers with a girl for so long then decided they would just be friends; they burnt all their passionate words.
Before I heard that, I figured it was about someone looking forward to getting buried in the family plot! XD