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Light as a Feather Lyrics
While the seasons will undo your soul
Time forgives us and it takes control
We separate our things to put us back together
We're light as a feather
Heavy as the weather
If it was raining stones
Put our hands together to applaud or pray
It's like the show was over
But we're too scared to walk away
All for the better
Worst for the way
We're light as a feather
God, you and I together
Meanwhile inside me
It was raining stones
And you didn't know
God bless your soul
We're light as a feather
Heavy as the weather
We're light as a feather
God, you and I together
Time forgives us and it takes control
We separate our things to put us back together
Heavy as the weather
If it was raining stones
It's like the show was over
But we're too scared to walk away
All for the better
Worst for the way
God, you and I together
It was raining stones
And you didn't know
God bless your soul
Heavy as the weather
We're light as a feather
God, you and I together
Song Info
Submitted by
leddy On Nov 14, 2009
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I believe the line is: "Put our hands together to applaud or pray." Also, is it... "Got you and I together" or "God, you, and I together"...?
This is quite possibly my most favorite song off her latest album. A little disappointed that no one has commented on this particular song yet.
I see the ebb and flow of a relationship here. Or better yet, a marriage - as the line "All for the better, worse for the way" suggests. Things are better for this couple in the long run, but the means by which they got there, or to wherever point they are in now, was not easy.
Would love to hear someone else's take on this song.
The line is "God, you, and I together" Also the 9th line is "All for the better, worse for the wear"
The line is "God, you, and I together" Also the 9th line is "All for the better, worse for the wear"
This is my favorite song on the new album as well. Ryan Adams co-wrote this song with her.. they make an amazing duo.
This is my favorite song on the new album as well. Ryan Adams co-wrote this song with her.. they make an amazing duo.
I see this song as the ending of a relationship. The first verse acknowledges that only time has contol after a breakup and that people separate their belongings in hopes of putting themselves back together as individuals, no longer as a couple.
I see this song as the ending of a relationship. The first verse acknowledges that only time has contol after a breakup and that people separate their belongings in hopes of putting themselves back together as individuals, no longer as a couple.
"Put our hands together to applaud or prey It's like the...
"Put our hands together to applaud or prey It's like the show is over but we're too scared to walk away All for the better worse for the wear"
-Verse 3 suggests that the people in this relationship know it's over but they are too scared to move on. They know that in the end it's for the better but in the moment it weighs heavily on them.
"We're light as a feather God you and I together Meanwhile outside me, it was raining stones You didn't know God bless your soul"
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This is just what i see when i hear the song. Norah and Ryan sure did write some beautiful lyrics!
That's brilliant, hume9. That's close to my take as well.
That's brilliant, hume9. That's close to my take as well.
She's going to be in my area this Tuesday but I don't know if I'll be able to make it. We'll see.
She's going to be in my area this Tuesday but I don't know if I'll be able to make it. We'll see.
Most of Norah Jones' song lyrics are easy to grasp but this one eluded me for a long time. It's probably the most obscure of her song texts. I always loved the melancholy in it. Like after waking up from a dream, and I know that there was a whole long story, romantic, tragic, whatever, and I just can't remember any details, just the feeling remains...
Today I heard it again (the live version from a New York concert, you can find it on youtube) and I think I know now what it is about: she was in love with someone and they spent time together but he never knew she loved him and she did't tell hime either:
Meanwhile inside of me it was rainin' storms, hm, You didn't know, hm God bless your soul
Maybe he was married, maybe there was some other reason they couldn't be together. She blesses his soul because he is so innocent about what she feels, how much she wants him.
It's like a show was over But we're too scared to walk away All for the better Worst for the way
This is about how they part ways, I think, herself being totally clear about her feelings, the other one ignorant. She knows it's better this way, they can't really be together, but they way ahead is going to be sorrowful for her.
What about "light as a feather", title and refrain line? I can only guess, but I think the whole song is about letting go. There is something/someone you just can't have and you must feel "light as a feather" to let it go... even if your heart feels "heave as the weahther".
Most of Norah Jones' song lyrics are easy to grasp but this one eluded me for a long time. It's probably the most obscure of her song texts. I always loved the melancholy in it. Like after waking up from a dream, and I know that there was a whole long story, romantic, tragic, whatever, and I just can't remember any details, just the feeling remains...
Today I heard it again (the live version from a New York concert, you can find it on youtube) and I think I know now what it is about: she was in love with someone and they spent time together but he never knew she loved him and she did't tell hime either:
Meanwhile inside of me it was rainin' storms, hm, You didn't know, hm God bless your soul
Maybe he was married, maybe there was some other reason they couldn't be together. She blesses his soul because he is so innocent about what she feels, how much she wants him.
It's like a show was over But we're too scared to walk away All for the better Worst for the way
This is about how they part ways, I think, herself being totally clear about her feelings, the other one ignorant. She knows it's better this way, they can't really be together, but they way ahead is going to be sorrowful for her.
What about "light as a feather", title and refrain line? I can only guess, but I think the whole song is about letting go. There is something/someone you just can't have and you must feel "light as a feather" to let it go... even if your heart feels "heave as the weahther".
@MusicLover007: Yes, I think it is rather "God, you, and I together"...?
I think the lyrics here are grossly incorrect.
"While THE seasons..." an allusion to both spring and fall, the difficulty of starting a relationship, and having it end.
The chorus: ends with "If it was rainstorms" -should be "If it was raining stones" an irony.
Clearly she is having an hard time, they both have to separate in order to find themselves, individually, whole.
"Put our hands together to plough obey" - should be "Put our hands together to applaud your play" a faux sort of action, like one might applaud an adult for tying their shoes,
"Meanwhile inside of me it was rainin' storms, hm," -"....rainin' stones"
I think this song is a great song, and captures well the difficulty of risking so much (one's precious self) to be authentically in love. What often happens, one person in a relationship projects an aura of confidence, and security with a light hearted relationship ( ergo Light as a Feather) yet falls deeply and insecurely IN LOVE, while the other person in the relationship continues on (with either willful ignorance, or perhaps, generously, true ignorance) with the idea of a light hearted, "I can play the field" affair. The Milan Kundera novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, comes to mind.
It's deep what you're writing. You've changed my perspective over that song... And Kundera is fitting in perfectly :)
It's deep what you're writing. You've changed my perspective over that song... And Kundera is fitting in perfectly :)
Think she got out of a difficult relationship where one cared more for the other but stayed together but they had to part anyways. Light as a feather ( a feeling when you get out of a tough relationship) Heavy as a weather as if it were raining stones( still inside where tears feel heavy like stones . In a lot of pain) The show is over she says a long time back Whether we can applaud or pray. I think one partner had no inkling how much he/ she meant to them . Inside of her was a raging storm ( a lot of love and pain at breakup ) Love the way she says so simply accepts by hmm he didn’t know . All for the better if he didn’t know he obviously didn’t care. Worse for the way — she’s not going to be happy without him . She left but it’s not going to be easy for her. Loving ain’t easy . True.