December

Like '#41', this song is meaningless on the surface but clearly conceals something profound. All I can think of is to do a point-by-point (much of which is obvious): "All my tears will dry away": this unhappiness will be over "Words don't bother me no more" "Black money" suggests ill-gotten gains to me, and "falling to the floor" release thereof. "Flags out on the balcony" probably symbolizes something in reality. "Oh my mind/ What happened to the time": what has changed?

"All my house got blown away": Something bad. "Stations in the neon light": ? "Your body strange as dynamite": Powerful, inexplicable effects of sexuality. "Killers underneath our skins": The 'inner beast'? "Black mirrors, black hyacinths": Powerful imagery, but ? "Oh my eyes/ What happened to the skies": As above.

Having gone through it like this, it actually doesn't sound like any other David Gray song I know of.

i love this song...makes me cry everytime. "Oh my mind What happened To the time?"

To me it's about dealing with his fathers cancer. Almost like "A Long December" by Counting Crows he's spending tons of time in hospitals. He's hugely popular now because of 'Babylon' but all that greatness is drowned out by this sadness. He's seeing his riches falling to the floor, meaningless now that his father can't share it with him.

"Oh my mind, what happened, to the time?" is something we all know very well. He's thinking about all the time that seems wasted now, and how he wishes he would've spent it better with his father.

At first I thought the second verse was sort of sexual, but then I thought of the mystery that is cancer. His body is destructive to itself, slowly eating itself. Thus the reference to dynamite and "killers underneath our skin"

Everything is dark to him now that his father is dead. The flowers are black and even the mirrors seem blackened. Nothing shines, not even the skies.

I adore this song. I don't think i can really comprehend it. But wow. It's just wow.