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Two More Years Lyrics
In two more years, my sweetheart, we will see another view
such longing for the past for such completion
What was once golden has now turned a shade of grey
I've become crueler in your presence
They say: 'be brave, there's a right way and a wrong way'
This pain won't last forever, this pain won't last forever
Two more years, there's only two more years
Two more years, there's only two more years
Two more years so hold on
You've cried enough this lifetime, my beloved polar bear
Tears to fill a sea to drown a beacon
To start anew all over, remove those scars from your arms
To start anew all over more enlightened
I know, my love, this is not the only story you can tell
This pain won't last forever, this pain won't last forever
Two more years, there's only two more years
Two more years, there's only two more years
Two more years so hold on
You don't need to find answers for questions never asked of you
You don't need to find answers
dead weights and balloons
drag me to you
dead weights and balloons
to sleep in your arms
i've become crueler since i met you
i've become rougher, this world is killing me
we cover our lies with handshakes and smiles
we try to remember our alibis
we tell lies to our parents who hide in their rooms
we bury our secrets in the garden
of course we could never make this love last
i said of course we could never make this love last
the only love we know is love for ourselves
we bury our secrets in the garden
such longing for the past for such completion
What was once golden has now turned a shade of grey
I've become crueler in your presence
This pain won't last forever, this pain won't last forever
Two more years, there's only two more years
Two more years so hold on
Tears to fill a sea to drown a beacon
To start anew all over, remove those scars from your arms
To start anew all over more enlightened
This pain won't last forever, this pain won't last forever
Two more years, there's only two more years
Two more years so hold on
You don't need to find answers
drag me to you
dead weights and balloons
to sleep in your arms
i've become crueler since i met you
i've become rougher, this world is killing me
we try to remember our alibis
we tell lies to our parents who hide in their rooms
we bury our secrets in the garden
of course we could never make this love last
i said of course we could never make this love last
the only love we know is love for ourselves
we bury our secrets in the garden
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in two years i'll be over you
this is def a song about a relation gone wrong he wants to find closure within himself. Anyways dowload the mstrkrft remix... So much better!
@BraidenJae At one level, it is definitely about a relationship. But it also calls back to the broader political and social themes of Silent Alarm.
@BraidenJae At one level, it is definitely about a relationship. But it also calls back to the broader political and social themes of Silent Alarm.
to be honest i may well be wrong but when i hear this song i think about someone whos serving a long sentence in prison :\ what does everyone think?
First comment on this song, get in!!! I think its about a relation ship gone bad
'Just longing for the past for such completion What was once golden has now turned a shade of grey I've become crueler in your presence'
he longs for for somethig that once was and tells us how the relationship had changed him
im not sure what the two more years is about although if you listen to other lines within the song it makes some sense that he wants to prolong the relationship
'This pain won't last forever'
and
'To start anew all over, remove those scars from your arms To start anew all over more enlightened'
The end part 'You don't need to form answers...' sounds like it saying 'unless people ask you what are doing with this man, dont leave me'
i love this song....it is obviously about a relationship like said before...but i can't help when listening to the chorus linking it with my own life...i'm starting college now so only have 2 more years stuck in my home town untill i can leave "this pain won't last forever" i'll be free soon :D
SAME :D haha just two more years and i move out!
SAME :D haha just two more years and i move out!
@mojo47 Yeah, . . but in the end what does it matter? The only love we know is love for ourselves. Two more years is a positive slogan, but it ultimately rings hollow. That's the point.
@mojo47 Yeah, . . but in the end what does it matter? The only love we know is love for ourselves. Two more years is a positive slogan, but it ultimately rings hollow. That's the point.
This song is relevant to me.. I'm in love with someone in the States but I can't see her now obviously, we're only 16. But the summer we're both 18 I plan to visit her and change my life.
Two more years to hold on...
It's incredible that I wrote this nearly four years ago now. I've grown and changed so much since. I left another comment on the next page of this thread back in 2007 giving everybody an update, but I've still been receiving emails so another one is probably due!
It's incredible that I wrote this nearly four years ago now. I've grown and changed so much since. I left another comment on the next page of this thread back in 2007 giving everybody an update, but I've still been receiving emails so another one is probably due!
The truth is that I still haven't met my friend in Minnesota. I've been with someone else here in England for nearly a year now; that relationship is also long distance but a few hundred miles seems nothing in comparison to a few thousand. My friend and I are as strong as ever...
The truth is that I still haven't met my friend in Minnesota. I've been with someone else here in England for nearly a year now; that relationship is also long distance but a few hundred miles seems nothing in comparison to a few thousand. My friend and I are as strong as ever and will definitely meet someday soon, probably within the next year or two.
Of course those are only plans, and I'm very satisfied in my current relationship, but the comments I've been making here have taught me that plans don't always work out! For now, I'm just trying to tackle life day by day, especially at the moment with my degree. The future is unknown until it becomes the present. I'm excited to see what will happen.
Love those lyrics.. obviously it's about a relationship gone wrong.. the fire is out and they break up, knowing that they can't go on like this forever.. they decide to try again after two years time, hoping that they "will see another view" and they'll "start anew all over more enlightened". It's the only thing they can do right now to save their relationship. Of course it's hard for them not to long for someone you love so much, but they have to "be brave, there's a right way and a wrong way"...
To me this song is about my personal experiences recently after coming out of a relationship that 'was once golden but is now grey' and both parties feeling upset and not being able to 'get over each other.' i think kele is trying to judge how long it will take for the couple to 'get over eachother' and for the pain of the breakup to go. thats my opinion anyway! but every song means different things to different ppl. which is why this site i so good :P
missing this bit: dead weights and balloons drag me to you dead weights and balloons to sleep in your arms i've become crueler since i met you ive become rougher, this world is killing me
we cover our lies with handshakes and smiles we try to remember our alibis we tell lies to our parents he hide in their rooms we bury our secrets in the garden of course we could never make this love last i said of course we could never make this love last the only love we know is love for ourselves we bury our secrets in the garden
2 more years, we bury secrets in gardens... think he could be in prision? buryed somebody, got done, got two years left to hold on.
@jambomdaman It's a mature reflection on the idea that we fuck up our own lives. I look at it as the missing finale to Silent Alarm. SA was a great album, but much of it comes off as whiney. This is a devasting gut punch to finish off that album. "The only love we know is love for ourselves." Yeah, we whined a lot about society, politics, relationships . . . at the end of the day it comes back to us. Individually, collectively. At its most basic level it is about relationships....
@jambomdaman It's a mature reflection on the idea that we fuck up our own lives. I look at it as the missing finale to Silent Alarm. SA was a great album, but much of it comes off as whiney. This is a devasting gut punch to finish off that album. "The only love we know is love for ourselves." Yeah, we whined a lot about society, politics, relationships . . . at the end of the day it comes back to us. Individually, collectively. At its most basic level it is about relationships. But it resolves all the strands of Silent Alarm, which beautifully wove together a number of themes. It's amazingly brilliant.
@jambomdaman It's a mature reflection on the idea that we fuck up our own lives. I look at it as the missing finale to Silent Alarm. SA was a great album, but much of it comes off as whiney. This is a devasting gut punch to finish off that album. "The only love we know is love for ourselves." Yeah, we whined a lot about society, politics, relationships . . . at the end of the day it comes back to us. Individually, collectively. At its most basic level it is about relationships....
@jambomdaman It's a mature reflection on the idea that we fuck up our own lives. I look at it as the missing finale to Silent Alarm. SA was a great album, but much of it comes off as whiney. This is a devasting gut punch to finish off that album. "The only love we know is love for ourselves." Yeah, we whined a lot about society, politics, relationships . . . at the end of the day it comes back to us. Individually, collectively. At its most basic level it is about relationships. But it resolves all the strands of Silent Alarm, which beautifully wove together a number of themes. It's amazingly brilliant.
@jambomdaman I've never heard this song with that last verse you added here (and only recently discovered it was added to later versions of Silent Alarm. Part of this verse is better than the rest of the lyrics which I think are kind of shit for Bloc Party, but it wouldn't have saved the song. I'm so glad it wasn't on my earlier version of the album. Strange that LucasCorso finds the rest of the album whiny and this one not. I think it's the opposite. This one comes off as whiny and insincere, while it was almost shocking to...
@jambomdaman I've never heard this song with that last verse you added here (and only recently discovered it was added to later versions of Silent Alarm. Part of this verse is better than the rest of the lyrics which I think are kind of shit for Bloc Party, but it wouldn't have saved the song. I'm so glad it wasn't on my earlier version of the album. Strange that LucasCorso finds the rest of the album whiny and this one not. I think it's the opposite. This one comes off as whiny and insincere, while it was almost shocking to me how impressed I was with the rest of the songs at the time. I think he's just confusing Kele's sometimes punk delivery/way of singing with whininess.
@LucasCorso I don't see how the words could be a mature reflection on anything. The narrator sounds like Terence Stamp's character in the 1962 film The Collector, the "young Englishman who stalks a beautiful art student before abducting and holding her captive in the basement of his rural farmhouse." Sounds like he's telling the kidnapped girl to just be patient and he'll release her in two more years. Anyway, what the psychopath of course doesn't consider is that even if he does release her as promised she'll still be permanently traumatized from the experience....
@LucasCorso I don't see how the words could be a mature reflection on anything. The narrator sounds like Terence Stamp's character in the 1962 film The Collector, the "young Englishman who stalks a beautiful art student before abducting and holding her captive in the basement of his rural farmhouse." Sounds like he's telling the kidnapped girl to just be patient and he'll release her in two more years. Anyway, what the psychopath of course doesn't consider is that even if he does release her as promised she'll still be permanently traumatized from the experience.
Great song but i'm angry about this. i bought the album, silent alarm, pondering why two more years wasn't on it and 10 days later the do a re-release of the same album with two more years on it... walks away and screams. It is a pretty good song though.
@=Hawk= It is a brilliant song as the capstone to Silent Alarm. It elevates SA, which was already one of the greatest albums I ever heard. Two More Years beautifully ties up all the themes of the album with a devastating gut punch of maturity at the very end.
@=Hawk= It is a brilliant song as the capstone to Silent Alarm. It elevates SA, which was already one of the greatest albums I ever heard. Two More Years beautifully ties up all the themes of the album with a devastating gut punch of maturity at the very end.