Faithful guide

This song to me, for me, it reminds me of being in love with someone but because of certain aspects, certain lies, I can't have a relationship with that person. I'm too afraid of the consequences to confess the truth to her to maybe make something happen with her..

I think that this song reminds people of what they're losing when you lose a lover. "I was afraid of what would happen, If God would take you with him". I love Wintersleep's lyrics. All of them.

A couple of corrections. The 3rd and 4th line are "I dreamt the sun was burning/but you just kept on staring." The last line of the song is "monsters at the time."

To me, this song is about discovering that the one you love isn't good for you and letting them go. Fantastic song.

This is such a beautiful song...

My interpretation is that the person singing had the perfect relationship, that he had found his soulmate and was completely in love. This person though, possibly through his own greed or paranoia(Afraid of monsters), had caused himself and his loved one to grow apart. He had been so in love that he would steer the vessel of his loved one through the afterlife, but had lost everything because of his own doing.

The song hints to both the lyrist and the loved one simply ending they're relationship(The lover moved on and the lyrist left in shambles.), aswell as the lover dying, and the singer not being there for her when she died(Explains not being able to steer the vessel, not guiding, and using passed tense in the word "Wanted.")

I'm wish there were more Wintersleep fans out here! I would like to hear what they think!

I love Wintersleep , there a good band right from here in the Maritimes! Anyways , i think this song is about the singer being in love with someone who has several bad and self-destructive qualities and as a result he's afraid to pursue a relationship with that person. As a result he loses her and he's thinking of how he should have gone ahead with it.

I think this song will be interpreted differently by different people with different experiences. However, I also think a lot of Wintersleep's songs have similar themes. This one, to me, seems to be similar to Butterfly. I think it's about the loss of somebody close, and the line "But I was too afraid/ of monsters at the time" suggest that the loss was at a young age. Perhaps the death of a mother? I interpret it as that because I lost my own mother at a young age, and that's what the song makes me think about.

"I think this song will be interpreted differently by different people with different experiences." - You mean like.. every song?

Its about Paul's brother. He is a priest. Extrapolate your own interpretation.

I never knew that 'til now. And it makes sense. "Kept on staring" / "Rest your eyes"

Actual lyrics (they were on their website prior the new album coming out):

"I dreamt you were a monster With fiery, fiery eyes I dreamt the sun was burning But you just kept on staring I was afraid of what would happen If God would take you with him A broken, lonely captain Sailing blind Into the distance

I wanted to go with you To be right by your side So I could steer the vessel So you could rest your eyes I wanted to go with you To be your faithful guide But I was too afraid of The monsters at the time"