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City fast asleep.
Clouds up on the hill.
So quiet, so still.
Dreams of rain in sheets,
Dreams of ice and wings.
So delicate, these things.
Love, love, love is a word so small.
Let it fill up, up, up 'til I can't see at all.
I want to be blind, only my hands to guide me.
Bring all of you inside me.
City fast asleep.
Lights hum in the gray,
Like her breathing will someday.
Strangest beauty cries,
One and one, by and by,
Now three of us here lie.
Love, love, love for one so small,
Come fill me up, up, up 'til I can't see at all.
I want to be blind, only my hands to guide me.
Gather all the world inside me.
Clouds up on the hill.
So quiet, so still.
Dreams of ice and wings.
So delicate, these things.
Let it fill up, up, up 'til I can't see at all.
I want to be blind, only my hands to guide me.
Bring all of you inside me.
Lights hum in the gray,
Like her breathing will someday.
One and one, by and by,
Now three of us here lie.
Come fill me up, up, up 'til I can't see at all.
I want to be blind, only my hands to guide me.
Gather all the world inside me.
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I believe the second to last line should be "i want to be blind, only my heart to guide me"
Now three is likely a reference to the presence of the newborn child, where before it was just the two lovers.
I love the way Vienna's voice and the music in this song convey a sense of newfound eagerness and restlessness whirling through the mother. When I listen to it intently, the song conjures up images of a woman staring up at the ceiling from her bed in the middle of a quiet night imagining all the myriad of future moments of life and love with her child.
Wonderfully composed Vienna. Wonderful.
This is like, my favorite song of all time. Although from what I can tell, it's pretty simple. It's most likely a mother's love for her infant daughter ("love for one so small"), and this love is greater than the rest of her senses. Perhaps The third one is the mother's lover, or some other abstract idea.
I know were supposed to analyze the song, but I love the melody so much. It's so haunting and instrumental and just beautiful. But I do agree that it seems to be about the infant coming into a couple's life.