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Silver Lining Lyrics
Take a silver lining keep it in an old sweet hand
And shining when the night is turning red
Shining in the twighlight
Shining on the poor poor ground
Shining till it's walls come tumbling down
We were born with our eyes wide open
So alive with wild hope now
Can you tell me why time after time
They drag you down
Down in the darkness deep
Fools an' their madness all around
Know that the light won't sleep
Step into the silence take it in the road to hell
And scatter it like diamonds all across this land
Yeah yeah yeah
Blazing in the morning wear it like an island skin
Only things worth living for
Are innocence and magic hey babe
We were born with our eyes wide open
So alive with wild hope now
Can you tell me why time after time
They drag you down
Down in the darkness deep
Falls in the madness all around
Know that the light don't sleep
We were born with our eyes wide open
So alive with wild hope now
Can you tell me why time after time
They drag you down
Down in the darkness deep
Falls in the madness all around
Know that the light don't sleep
Know that the light don't sleep
Time after time they drag you down
Down in the darkness deep
Falls in the madness all around
Know that the light don't sleep
Know that the light don't sleep
It sounds like he's looking back on an innocence lost. It's like advice to others coming up. Take this innocence and keep it, take that light and don't lose it. He goes through a mock childhood prayer "The only things worth living for are innocence and magic - amen" He's also posing the question as to why we all lose that and get dragged down into the darkness.
To me it's advice to the coming generation to keep that innocence because everyone seems to lose it.
Who has never felt so strongly about another person? One of the best songs on the CD.
This song just puts me i the chillest mood, i let everything im worrying about just fade away as i stare up in the clouds when Im about to take a nap or if Im laying down at the beach. He is amazing
This song is about Heroin Abuse.
Silver Lining is the silver paper for chasing the dragon. Scatter it like Diamonds all across these lands = Putting the Heroin on the Silver Paper. Blaze it in the Mornig, wear it like an Iron Skin = Is how Blazing & tooting your Heroin makes you feel bulletproof numbness.
We were born with our eyes wide open So alive with wild hope Now can you tell me why Time after time They drag you down
It is about the loss of Innocence & finding a magic worth living for.
I could go on for every line in the song.....but its only MY interpretation.
that is all
Well said, Jaq3892.
I really think the clue is in the title.. Silver Lining.
I really think the clue is in the title.. Silver Lining.
There's always a silver lining..he's telling you to grab hold of it, hold it in your mind and concentrate on it when other people are trying to drag you down.
There's always a silver lining..he's telling you to grab hold of it, hold it in your mind and concentrate on it when other people are trying to drag you down.
Stepping into the silence is shutting yourself off from others negative thoughts and opinions.
Stepping into the silence is shutting yourself off from others negative thoughts and opinions.
There's at least some ready to light fire and revolutionary 'social commentary' passion in this song. Yes, the instrumentation is chilling, relaxing and sonic. But the lyrics have venom. I feel David Gray is feeling isolated and lonely at the world; its eerie dark SNOBBISH UNCARING $ELFISH silences of Western Suburbia, night after night & aeon upon aeon. We yearn with him to recapture the innocence & untainted hope of childhood & ''wild'' birth, now marred in adulthood (even tainted teenage years) by the rat race STUCK UP a$$ pursuits of modern capitalism. Definitely hints of John Lennon, so go DG!
'...never noticing the war until it's right there at your door...'
'...hold on to nothing so write it down...'
I always think this song is about someone strong who will always be there for some one who may be having trouble in there lives. Or it could simple be biblical, with god being the light and the silver lining, a lot of the songs from this album mention religion.