Keeper of the Flame Lyrics
Give it up for rock
Give it up for how it made you feel
Kicking back from school
Turning out to make it real sweet
Give it up for bob
Give it up for how it made you see
Give it up for golden
Adolescent daydreams
Instrumental instruments
A plan evolves too grand to entertain
Monumental monuments
Sentimental sentiments
You could've been the keeper of the flame
One day
Instrumental instruments
Swallowed by the place from which you came
Monumental monuments
Sentimental sentiments
You should've been the keeper of the flame
Laying in the grass
Everything is happening in your head
You raise your fist up in the air
Clench your teeth and say
Four more years and I am outta here
Give it up
Give it up
Four more years and I am outta here
How can it be, that such an amazing band as A-Ha isn't really known these days? I still can't understand what is this magical song's meanings... can you help me with it?
Very surprised that this nice song has almost no comments here...
To me, it sounds a lot like someone abandoning an uninteresting life for an entirely new one ("Four more years and I am out of here") in year's time. The dissatisfied singer is longing for a different life despite all of the respites of his/her former life ("Give it up for vinyl days, kicking back from school...Give it up for summer days, laying in the grass"). Also, in my opinion, the "You could've/should've been the keeper of the flame" repetitions could symbolize some other voice/person's dissatisfaction with the singer's choice to leave the situation he is in. Not my best interpretation: just some thoughts.