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Made Of Glass (Feat. Heather Nova) Lyrics
A change is coming, I can sense it now.
The weight is lifting and I'm sinking down.
Birds are flying in the trees below,
The tears are coming, I just let it go.
If I could I'd hold this moment.
If I could I'd make it last.
Sometimes life just seems to shatter
Like we're made of glass.
Breath on the water, dust in the sand,
Make this moment last.
Breath on the water, dust in the sand,
We're all made of glass.
I feel the wonder in my flesh and bones.
I feel the hunger, will you take me home?
Birds are flying in the trees below,
The tears are coming, I just let it go.
Sometimes life just seems to shatter
Like we're made of glass.
If I could I'd hold this moment.
If I could I'd make it last.
Breath on the water, dust in the sand,
Make this moment last.
Breath on the water, dust in the sand,
We're all made of glass.
The weight is lifting and I'm sinking down.
Birds are flying in the trees below,
The tears are coming, I just let it go.
If I could I'd make it last.
Sometimes life just seems to shatter
Like we're made of glass.
Make this moment last.
Breath on the water, dust in the sand,
We're all made of glass.
I feel the hunger, will you take me home?
Birds are flying in the trees below,
The tears are coming, I just let it go.
Like we're made of glass.
If I could I'd hold this moment.
If I could I'd make it last.
Make this moment last.
Breath on the water, dust in the sand,
We're all made of glass.
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Delicate and beautiful song! Heater Nova's voice gave the song a very strong emotional dimension!
In my opinion, the song's talking about the Fragility of our human condition, and the Fragility of our world. Birds, trees, ourself: "we're all made of glass", one day, we'll die and will disappear. The "glass", fragile and precious, don't only shows our precariousness, it is also an echo to the "dust in the sand" (glass's made of silica's sand). This sentence reminds me of the famous "dust you are and to dust you will return". In one word: we're mortal, and so vulnerable.
The "breath on the water" reminds me of our origins (first form of life in the water, or for the anti-evolution: the life in the mother's tummy). There's something very deep and somehow mystical in this sentence.
I mentionned the Fragility of our World, because we can interpret this song as a warning for the global warming. A guy in YT has made a wonderful music video about global warmig with this song. ("A change is coming" ; "birds are flying in the trees below" ; "life seems to shatter" ; "I feel the wonder in my flesh and bones") "The weight is lifting and I'm siking down": the weight is maybe a metaphore of the responsability, the care about the planet. He's going away, so the Earth is sinking down. I don't really know. But I like this sentence and the opposition in it.
I'm wondering, maybe it can be the story of a dying love relationship? So, what's your interpretation? (I'm so sorry for the English mistakes, I speak French in fact!)