Can you lie next to her
And give her your heart, your heart
As well as your body
And can you lie next to her
And confess your love, your love
As well as your folly
And can you kneel before the king
And say I'm clean, I'm clean
Tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Oh tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
A white blank page and a swelling rage, rage
You did not think when you sent me to the brink, to the brink
You desired my attention but denied my affections, my affections
Tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Oh tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life
Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life
And give her your heart, your heart
As well as your body
And can you lie next to her
And confess your love, your love
As well as your folly
And can you kneel before the king
And say I'm clean, I'm clean
Tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Oh tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
A white blank page and a swelling rage, rage
You did not think when you sent me to the brink, to the brink
You desired my attention but denied my affections, my affections
Tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Oh tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life
Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life
Lyrics submitted by rozelemarijn, edited by Mellow_Harsher, tadejm, natasha173
White Blank Page Lyrics as written by Edward James Milton Dwane Benjamin Walter David Lovett
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Given the amount of biblical reference on this album, it feels safe to guess something like this as a possible allusion. Maybe it's there to add the potent depth of cruel rejection and endless faithfulness, in a song that's actually about a human relationship.
But yes i definitely agree with you on that one
Mumford & Sons are absolutley amazing.
I automatically thought of a man who fell in love with another man. To me it sounds more like they were involved with each other. I think his lover is struggling with his sexuality and has decided to try to be "normal" and so he's left him for a woman.
That's why it sounds like accusations being thrown and where the rage is coming from in my opinion. When he sings "confess your love" it sounds sarcastic to me. (Although I admit I could be hearing what I want to so it agrees with the story in my head!)
Addictive song--this one. It is.
In fact, I suspect it was written about the main characters in "Arthur of the Britons."
There is an Arthurian book near the start of the bookshop vid. and the song is perfect for Arthur and Kai.
The man feels God is punishing him for his faith: "where was my fault
In loving you with all my heart?" If the man had never been religious, he would never have felt the unpleasant guilt, and could just have enjoyed his sexuality.
He feels his love for the girl is beautiful and natural, and asks God to tell him the truth about the contradiction: "Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life."
Implicit in this is that if God doesn't clarify his confusion soon, this man is going to turn atheist.
"Can you lie next to her? And give her your heart, your heart, as well as your body?"
It's something I want guys to asks themselves before they try to have sex with me. Or not even sex, just the fact that most guys want to hook up but they don't want to show any emotion. (You desired my attention but denied my affections) But then once you put everything together, it's clear that a man's in a battle between his mind and body, or desires vs. religion. Either way, love this song
So I think that lyric is saying how she was perfect for him with her purity and cleanliness.
Just because someone uses religious imagery, it doesn't mean they are speaking about god.
The song talks about the Ego, about standing in front of the innermost core of yourself and judging yourself...
The general idea I got is just a man that knows God's plan, but can't see how it fits with his feelings, urges, thoughts. His feelings makes it feel right and real, yet the King tells him it's wrong. So, his body and his mind are telling him one thing, but the ultimate question is whether he can defend himself before the King.
I might be totally wrong on this, but I think the attention and affections, might be referring to people saying that they want to sleep with someone because of love, but in doing that they are leading them down a path of ruin thus they are exposed as wanting attention more than affection... lust over love.
In all of these struggles I think the author knows that he is missing something and he knows he is wrong - and he is not jsut looking for happy feel-good answers, but he is looking for a Truth that he understands and can follow with his whole life. Before he really understands that I think he feels like he's denying himself for no real reason at all.
God created marriage and sex as a beautiful expression of His G0spel - Eph 5:22-33 - and in that we will be most happy. But that is a difficult thing to grasp.
"in loving you with my WHOLE HEART" (not "all my heart")
i was about to get all over that.
I mean how you could you possibly think it was grave.
If "page" rhymes with "rage",
then its safe to assume that "think" rhymes with "brink" NOT grave...
He's singing about what has ruined a lot of men, as they won't ever recover from that, at the very best they'll do the same way as a sword, that will still do what it's made for, but never be the same, not ever as strong as before and untarnished, once it's been chipped.
I think it's a sign of a fantastic song writer when they can make you think of moments in your own life when listening to their music.
Dont worry...i heard this song and checked my closet just to see if Marcus Mumford was hiding in there with a pen and notepad.
But yeah as Kane92 said it shows a good song if it relates to you somehow
And as I was wondering what the blank page was, I received a letter from that someone today. I could envision the person sitting, wondering what to write while feeling this way. Very eerie.