This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I wouldn't care, 'cause machines are for the birds.
Oh, I wouldn't care, 'cause machines are for the birds.
Every night we watch the same surprise,
And he ripped his wing off of his arm,
And he stepped through the blooming door.
Scarecrows were walking through the rows toward him.
"Have you seen the missing lady of this wood?"
"Oh, no, sir, it's oh so sad, she was taken away, taken away."
Moonlight was making his skin glow like the fireflies he'd taken
From the tiny scarecrows in a hurry,
Who said, "Sir, you'll need these on your journey."
He came upon a wishing well,
He leaned forward and he fell,
Softly floating down on wings of fireflies.
And he saw her lying there, tangles in her hair,
in her hair.
Oh, a pretty broken wrist
Was clutched under her fist,
Her ankles were all wound
About a silver gown
Oh, I wouldn't care, 'cause machines are for the birds.
Every night we watch the same surprise,
And he ripped his wing off of his arm,
And he stepped through the blooming door.
Scarecrows were walking through the rows toward him.
"Have you seen the missing lady of this wood?"
"Oh, no, sir, it's oh so sad, she was taken away, taken away."
Moonlight was making his skin glow like the fireflies he'd taken
From the tiny scarecrows in a hurry,
Who said, "Sir, you'll need these on your journey."
He came upon a wishing well,
He leaned forward and he fell,
Softly floating down on wings of fireflies.
And he saw her lying there, tangles in her hair,
in her hair.
Oh, a pretty broken wrist
Was clutched under her fist,
Her ankles were all wound
About a silver gown
Lyrics submitted by ThreeMilesDown, edited by expectedperfection
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This song is really quite amazing. It reminds me of the movie "the ring"... but probaly just because of the whole well thing.
i was just reading prince caspian from the chronicles of narnia and the spirit of the beech tree is referred to as 'the lady of the wood'
hey! heyjealousy thats true....
Anyhow. I love this song. It's a fantastic opening song. It just hits you like a brick. Except softer. It gives me shivers when I hear it. I hear Stacy's Rhoads keyboard, and her shrilling vocals, and I'm in awe. I love the line "Softly floating down on wings of fireflies"
And it's oh-so cute (haha) the lyrics, can you think of another band that says "oh no sir, its oh-so sad"? Nope. It's so cute.
This song reminded me instrisically of medieval fairy tales. I see the man as the angel of death (' ripped his wing off of his arm' fallen angel perhaps?) who has come for the lady who has is down the well. (Was she pushed? Was it suicide?) The scarecrows represent the people who stop and stare at her body, but aren't physically able to do anything.
Another interpretation would be that this man loved the woman who he finds had fallen down a well and decides to follow her in death, 'keeling forward and he fell'. During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance these sort of deaths were more frequent than you might imagine.
Lyrics correction: 'Her pretty broken wrist was clutched under her fist. Her ankles were all wound about a silver gown.'
I love this song but it skeeves the hell out of me. I guess this might be obvious but to me it seems like one of those scary stories where someone just has to go look in the attic, and they die. The guy was curious about the lady of the wood, and at the end I feel like something scary happens to him.
I think this song is about this guy looking for the lady of the wood and he gose and asks a scarcrow that told him that that she was taken away some place. then he found her at a bottum of a well with a broken wrist and was wounded. Then he fell in to but the fireflys that the tiny scar crows gave him helped him by carry him down and saving the lady of the wood. I dont think she died also. But i thought the begining lyrics went like "I wouldnt care cause machines all fall apart" O.O
where have you guys heard this song? it sounds amasing. where can i get it?
at orangegoldandgreen.org or if you just want to hear it, you could search on YouTube and there are videos.
Another dream song to add to the Eisley collection. :]
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