Silver Coin

General CommentIts about not having the courage to express your feelings for someone, then once you build up this courage to actually express them, its too late. Traveling to a country on an exchange trip, for 6 months, meeting someone and falling in love with them but not having the courage to express this and tell them that you love them. Your exchange is up and you leave back to your home town, much regret for not telling this person you loved them, all the love has gone away. They will forever be a memory.

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General Commentyeah i agree with you. he sounds lost. it makes me really sad :(

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General CommentAngus Stone is such a genious, I admire people who put so much emotion in their songs, you can tell by his voice that he is really feeling what he's saying. I love him!

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General CommentI interpret the song as being about a boy who is in love with someone he can't have. He sees her on a silver coin - i think this is eluding to her being like a queen, so she is above his class. Also the line "im in the days of throwing rocks" means he is probably young, a teenager.

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General Commentawww this is one of the nicest songs on 'a book like this'. i love the music as well as the lyrics.
these lyrics are close, but not quite right. Here are the correct ones-

Heard the rattle from the train
Sounds of a hundred people,
Maybe more
Cut through the ropes before you came
I had a dream that you were gone.

I'm in the days of throwing rocks
When I saw your picture on a silver coin
Stole a kiss from your golden locks
I had a dream that you were gone.
Woke up and you were gone

All the love has gone away
Cos I didnt have the heart or strength to say
I'll miss you when you're gone
I'll miss you when you're gone
I'll miss you when you're gone
I'll miss you when you're gone

Heard the rattle from the chains
This goddamn room it gets so small sometimes
I had a dream that you were gone
Woke up and you were gone.

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General Commento sorry its through you're golden locks not from you're golden locks... I miss read the album cover.

This song is sad as it makes me think that he has been in a long relationship and it hasn't quite sunk in yet that it's ended, its just like a dream.
He feels a bit lost without his love, with the noise of the train and the crowds of people confusing him and he doesnt know what happens then he wakes up 'and you were gone'
He regrets not telling her how much she meant. :(

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General CommentThanks for the corrections. Mine are just by ear so i'm sure there are more mistakes in the other songs too.

I think you are pretty much spot on with the meaning, great song. I'm glad there are others who like this album as much as me.

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General CommentThis song is so beautiful.

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My Interpretationthe whole "had a dream that you were gone" could be that since he knew she was higher above him (in class or popularity or whatever) that he kept thinking she would never stay with him and that maybe he wasnt good enough and then she actually did leave.

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General CommentI think walrusgumboots is right about the whole higher-class, silver coin thing and the teenager throwing rocks thing,
I think it sounds like its about a guy who had a short relationship with a girl who was much higher than him in popularity, and he saw that she was higher up and didnt have the strength to tell her everything she meant to him

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