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Before Departure Lyrics
Farewell my friends
Farewell my dear ones
If I was rude
Forgive my weakness
Goodbye my friends
Goodbye to evening parties
Remember me
In the spring
To work for your bread
Soon you must leave
Remember your families
And look for your children
I don't need much
and the older I become
I realize
My friendships
Will carry me over
On a course of distance
You're a cause of sorrow
Friends that last
Will dance
with me
I don't need words
This, I need.
Farewell my dear ones
If I was rude
Forgive my weakness
Goodbye to evening parties
Remember me
In the spring
Soon you must leave
Remember your families
And look for your children
and the older I become
I realize
My friendships
Will carry me over
On a course of distance
You're a cause of sorrow
Friends that last
with me
I don't need words
This, I need.
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Fucking amazing song.One could say that the meaning behind the lines is quite obvious.I guess that's true.But personally I don't see this as a tragic song of loss or so..I see it more as an intentional choise of solitude and withdraw.Although there will always be around people who care for you,there are times that you just need to fade away....away from everything and everyone.
ohhh my... this song makes me cry... its truly devine. i agree with you cosmic_gull. it feels/sounds like she needs to withdraw from everything. but its so wonderful....
i can't help but remember the times when I was trying to withdraw from everything that surrounds me...I was so down then and weak.
i love how at the point where her 'friendships will carry...' the music gets such a hopeful untertone with the extra piano bit, i just thought that was so effective and moving
Isn't it someone's last words before death perhaps...?
The lyrics are "any course of distance, any cause of sorrow" not "On a course of distance, you're a cause of sorrow".
I think it's simply about Polly leaving America and going back to England.