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Against the Grain Lyrics
You need not, to climb mountaintops
You need not, to cross the sea
You need not, to find a cure
for everything that makes you weak.
You need not to reach for the stars,
when life becomes so dark
and when the wind
does blow against the grain
you must follow your heart
you must follow your heart
when all your friends
have come and gone
the sun no longer shines
the happiness for which you long
is washed away, like an oceans tide
when all the hard times, outweigh the good
and all your words are misunderstood
when the day seems lost from the stars
you must follow your heart
you must follow your heart
If you feel, you paid the price
and your wounds should cease to heal
and everything you love in life,
spins like a winding wheel
if you should wake, to find you're abandoned.
and the road you travel, leads to a dead end
when death creeps in, to play it's part.
you must you follow your heart
you must follow your heart
You need not, to cross the sea
You need not, to find a cure
for everything that makes you weak.
when life becomes so dark
and when the wind
does blow against the grain
you must follow your heart
you must follow your heart
have come and gone
the sun no longer shines
the happiness for which you long
is washed away, like an oceans tide
when all the hard times, outweigh the good
and all your words are misunderstood
you must follow your heart
you must follow your heart
and your wounds should cease to heal
and everything you love in life,
spins like a winding wheel
if you should wake, to find you're abandoned.
and the road you travel, leads to a dead end
you must you follow your heart
you must follow your heart
Song Info
Submitted by
gold. On Feb 04, 2008
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This is a truly beautiful song...
I feel that it talks about how there is a man who is trying to convinve the one that he loves that she is making the right choice, no matter how painful it may be...
Even when the decisions that she made have taken her down the wrong path and further away from him, he continues to encourage her to follow her heart, in hopes that it will lead her back to him...
Once again, this is a beautiful song, and it choked me up the first time I heard it...
Jiminy Cricket heard this and cried.
Does anyone else feel like he's speaking directly to you? I can't listen to this without crying, it just feels so personal.
great song. one of those songs i could see myself sending to someone in a funk. I don't want to call it a self-help song, but that's kinda what it is. the good friend talking to another from the bottom of his/her heart trying to sincerely help the other person.
meaning is pretty straight forward, too.
some don't like the new harmonica songs, but i think it fits well in most of the songs.
Like John Mayer's "Heart of Life," this is a pick-up song.
It's prettymuch saying that when you're depressed, life isn't as far away as you think it is. You don't need to "reach for the stars,/ when life becomes so dark," all you need to do is follow your heart. Then he gives a few more examples of how life gets tough, but all you need to do is listen to your heart.
You need not. For everything that makes you weak. *Does blow against the grain.
one word: beautiful
It makes my day better by infinity. Its truly amazing.
Absolutely beautiful.
In fact, Dallas Green is just absolutely beautiful. Went to see him the other night: was incredible :]
Probably my favorite off of BMYL.