Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Clouds crash on the hillside
Set to sail your soul at high tide
High time you left that shadow
dead weight in the meadow
Let it follow far below
Oh, Oh, Oh
Whoa, what a ceiling!
All the angels cracked and peeling
revealing constellations
one day you will name one
after a boy you knew
when you were back in middle school
and ingrained his name in love notes
everyone retained though
in a box, behind your raincoats
Oh, those days
Where rainy days meant
Traces, Faces, Raindrops made when
Racing cross the windshield
The pace of life wasn't real
Oh, though how we quicken
how the slope began to slicken
you slip into a grim then,
begin with where you've been and
in my linen you are skin again.
La da da
La da da da da daa
Da da daa
Da daa daa
La da da daa da da daa daa
Oh, oh, clouds crash on the hillside.
Set to sail your soul at high tide.
High time you left that shadow,
dead weight in the meadow.
In my linen you are skin again.
Set to sail your soul at high tide
High time you left that shadow
dead weight in the meadow
Let it follow far below
Oh, Oh, Oh
Whoa, what a ceiling!
All the angels cracked and peeling
revealing constellations
one day you will name one
after a boy you knew
when you were back in middle school
and ingrained his name in love notes
everyone retained though
in a box, behind your raincoats
Oh, those days
Where rainy days meant
Traces, Faces, Raindrops made when
Racing cross the windshield
The pace of life wasn't real
Oh, though how we quicken
how the slope began to slicken
you slip into a grim then,
begin with where you've been and
in my linen you are skin again.
La da da
La da da da da daa
Da da daa
Da daa daa
La da da daa da da daa daa
Oh, oh, clouds crash on the hillside.
Set to sail your soul at high tide.
High time you left that shadow,
dead weight in the meadow.
In my linen you are skin again.
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Shawn Harris, who comes from a Catholic family and who attended Bishop O'Dowd High School, is certainly referring to a church fresco with many of these lines.
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"What a ceiling All the angels cracked and peeling Revealing constellations"
And possibly even the first and titular line "clouds crash in the meadow".
Historically there has been an interest in astronomy within the Roman Catholic church, in particular among Popes Pius IV and Gregory XIII. Thus, along with angels, constellations and star charts are not uncommon in Catholic murals.
Terrestrial maps can also be seen in many catholic frescoes, especially of Italy, which is depicted as a peninsula of rolling hills among a wavy blue sea laden with ships, easily calling to mind the words crashing and sailing. Google image search "Galleria delle Carte Geografica", an enormous fresco in one of the Vatican's halls, to get an idea.
The word "soul" shows further religious influence as does the meadow and shadow metaphor (23rd Psalm).
The person this song is sung to is obviously a girlfriend, the line "in my linen, you are skin again" would seem to indicate that they've had sexual relations, and the fact that both are familiar with the same church fresco points to them growing up together and attending the same institutions.
This unidentified female had a huge crush on a boy in her younger years, but was afraid to give him any of the love notes she wrote. She kept the love notes, at some point the song writer found out about the notes' existence, either on his own or through her telling him about them. Perhaps this is what caused him to write the song, expressing to her "forget about all your past relationships, look forward to the future with me."
The song also speaks of how time speeds up as we get older. Overall the song is somewhat stream-of-consciousness and slightly melancholy. It is a personal song with the feelings and imagery describing specific things from the writers life and his past, as such we can never gain a true and complete understanding of the meaning without consulting the writer, we can only surmise the generalities.