Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
It hung heavy on the tree above your head

This chaos, this calamity, this garden once was perfect
Give your immortality to me; I'll set you up against the stars

Gloria,
We lied, we can't go on
This is the time and this is the place to be alive

Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
And there is discord in the garden tonight

The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied

I cut the arrow from your neck
Stretched you beneath the tree
Among the roots and baby's breath
I covered us with silver leaves

Gloria,
We lied, we can't go on
This is the time and this is the place to be alive

The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied

The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied

The sea is wine red (Gloria, we lied)
This is the death of beauty (we lied, this is the time and place)
The doves have died (Gloria, we lied)
The lovers have lied (this is the time and place)


Lyrics submitted by kasandra

Wine Red [Tommie Sunshine's Brooklyn Fire Retouch] Lyrics as written by Chris Faller Bob Morris

Lyrics © Songtrust Ave

Lyrics powered by LyricFind

Wine Red song meanings
Add Your Thoughts

81 Comments

sort form View by:
  • +2
    My Interpretation

    Who shot that arrow in your throat? Who missed the crimson apple? It hung heavy on the tree above your head

    • the first two questions are for consciences of Adam and Eve for they had just eaten what was forbidden. Apple was hung heavy on the tree It was heavy for its price of sin

    This chaos, this calamity This garden once was perfect Give your immortality to me I'll set you up against the stars

    • The original sin brought the chaos into the garden it was the perfect garden made by God Because they did what they were not supposed to do they were set up against the stars which means that they are not against the fate

    Gloria, we lied, we can't go on This is the time and this is the place to be alive

    • They lied and the price for sin is death It is the grief of people who inherited the original sin

    Who shot that arrow in your throat? Who missed the crimson apple? And there is discord in the garden tonight

    • there are questions again for conscience and to remind what they did There was a disagreement between Adam and Eve about who ate the apple first

    The sea is wine red This is the death of beauty The doves have died, the lovers have lied

    • The wine red sea represents the blood of christ which saved human being from sin He died to save us His death was beautiful When he was hung on the cross, disciples, lovers of God, lied and seemed like peace was over

    I cut the arrow from your neck Stretched you beneath the tree Among the roots and Baby's Breath I covered us with silver leaves

    • right after the blood part the the lyrics it says that 'I cut the arrow from your neck' it means that he took the sins away from us and we are clean again He pulled us from the hell down the ground and trees among all the harships and innocences he was the silver leaves which can save us and which was the way I also think that Baby's breath represents the baby jesus

    Gloria, we lied, we can't go on This is the time and this is the place to be alive

    • they lied, and we could not go on it was the place for us to live

    The sea is wine red This is the death of beauty The doves have died, the lovers have lied (x2)

    • Jesus died for us and we are whole again

    The sea is wine red (Gloria, we lied) This is the death of beauty (This is the time and place) The doves have died (Gloria, we lied) The lovers have lied (This is the time and place)

    roadkhilon December 21, 2008   Link

Add your thoughts

Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.

Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!

More Featured Meanings

Album art
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
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"
Album art
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Led Zeppelin
This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Album art
Punchline
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
Album art
Head > Heels
Ed Sheeran
“Head > Heels” is a track that aims to capture what it feels like to experience romance that exceeds expectations. Ed Sheeran dedicates his album outro to a lover who has blessed him with a unique experience that he seeks to describe through the song’s nuanced lyrics.
Album art
Page
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.