The World Without

(These are the actual lyrics)

It must be written that the moon Elbowed the stars and said Let's do our best to make it hard for them

Your house turned into paper cranes We watched the wind blow them away Some sorry comfort I was then

The weight of a mountain The skin off your knees Come climbing up to me

We can work this out, I believe Although it seems impossible

They turned our skeletons to wood And scattered matches underfoot We must walk carefully these days

The circles darken around our eyes And yet our bodies, when combined They gleam like diamonds in a cave

The weight of a mountain The skin off your knees From climbing back to me

We can work this out, I believe Although it seems impossible now Keep the world without only the two of us count

Two voices loud, it is possible now They’ll try to tear us down But we'll find our way again

And Heloise gave her whole heart to Pete Now eternally sleeps by his side Oh, go ahead, fate, oh, give us your best What is worth living for is worth a fight Into the night

We can work this out, I believe Although it seems impossible now Yeah, without a doubt, we'll work it out

They can’t hurt us now I’m on my knees, it makes me want to scream and shout Yeah, we'll work this out, just the two of us Keep the world without, keep the world

"And Heloise gave her whole heart to Pete Now eternally sleeps by his side"

Referring to the story of Peter Abelard and Heloise, who had an illicit love affair in the twelfth century. They had a son and secretly married, but were seperated and Abelard was castrated by Heloise's angry uncle. Abelard became a monk, and Heloise became a nun. After Abelard died his remains were given to Heloise and the two are buried side by side in the same crypt in Paris.

This is definitely my favourite of the new album.

i think the song is about two lovers whose relationship is starcrossed (wonderful play on words writing about the moon telling the stars to make it "hard for them", in some way or another. pete and heloise were two people in love; pete was a teacher of some sort, and heloise was his student, and they fell in love, but they had to keep their love a secret. long story short, she got pregnant and to keep everything from getting worse, pete became a monk and heloise an abbess, but for the rest of their lives they struggled to keep their feelings for each other within reason of their religious life choices, never being able to really show it, but never ceasing the feeling.

the whole song obviously points to a couple where society, or people, or whatever makes it seem impossible for the two lovers to be together, but the narrator refuses to give up their love, and tells the other to keep the faith in their relationship, because despite the pain and strife they'll go through, they'll be together in the end.