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 don't know you but I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me and always fool me
And I can't react
And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
Will play themselves out
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can't go back
And moods that take me and erase me
And I'll paint it black
Well you have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice
You've made it now
Why don't you come?
One, two, three, four
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly sing your melody
I'll sing along, along
Baby, why don't you come home?
All the more for that
Words fall through me and always fool me
And I can't react
And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
Will play themselves out
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can't go back
And moods that take me and erase me
And I'll paint it black
Well you have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice
You've made it now
Why don't you come?
One, two, three, four
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly sing your melody
I'll sing along, along
Baby, why don't you come home?
Lyrics submitted by JordyWordy
Falling Slowly Lyrics as written by Marketa Irglova Glen Hansard
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
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"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Correction: You have suffered enough And warred with yourself It's time that you won
This is a gorgeous Frames song. It is beautiful on Glen's project "The Sweel Season" and it's gonna be amazing on the new Frames cd.
I just saw them play tonight and have this song in my head. It means many things to me and like most Frames songs it has that beautiful mix of love and loss, home and lost, and the bitterweet flavor of life.
This song, according to Glen, is about being in a bit of a crappy relationship, but not caring because you've got each other. And, in his words, "it might be crappy, but it's your crappy relationship that you both share".
Another Hansard quote I like more
"This songs about going to a party with your girlfriend. She gets up to leave and get a drink of water or go to the bathroom or something, and when she's away you spot someone, where it's not mental but a physical attraction and your just like jaw drops open and then you realize, it's your girlfriend. Then she comes back over and you have second thoughts about explaininig to her wat just ahppened."
I think that sums it up quite nicely.
One of my favorite songs of all time.
beautiful. You'll always be falling slowly if you aren't satisfied with what you already have. Great lyrics, great vocals, great instrumentals, incredible song period.
beautiful. You'll always be falling slowly if you aren't satisfied with what you already have. Great lyrics, great vocals, great instrumentals, incredible song period.
"Take this sinking boat and point it home."
I'm sorry, but I don't understand how one can not immediately fall in love with Glens after this song. This song is so, so beautiful. If I'm feeling down, it restores my hope. My eyes are my facial expressions. When I heard this song for the first time, they were bleeding hope. And everytime I listen to it, it's just like the first time. "Like a virgin..." Ha.
I don't know what I did before I found this on the frames' myspace page. It so gorgeous. I love how the last line varies from the chorus a bit; I don't have the exact words but it's something like:
"Falling slowly Sing your melody I'll sing it loud..."
To me this song is about falling out of love but not being able to acknowledge it.
awesome song :)
Congratulations on the OSCAR Glen Hansard, The Frames & Markéta Irglová!! :)