Help yourself, help the rest
Give blood away, give blood today
Each drop away
Help yourself, help the rest
Inhale exhale
Lungs paper frail
Light up away, go
Dont let go, just breathe slow
So hold on, it will pass
Dont give up, dont let go
Grey clouds, theyll, theyll break up
Rest yourself, rest your head
Be still, play dead.
Learn to acquiesce
Forget all the rest
Free yourself, free your head
Dont shy away, open your veins
In wet summer rain, go
Dont let go, just breathe slow
So hold on, it will pass
Dont give up, dont let go
Grey clouds, theyll, theyll break up
Just breathe slow.
Give blood away, give blood today
Each drop away
Help yourself, help the rest
Inhale exhale
Lungs paper frail
Light up away, go
So hold on, it will pass
Dont give up, dont let go
Grey clouds, theyll, theyll break up
Be still, play dead.
Learn to acquiesce
Forget all the rest
Free yourself, free your head
Dont shy away, open your veins
In wet summer rain, go
So hold on, it will pass
Dont give up, dont let go
Grey clouds, theyll, theyll break up
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This song may be about someone he knows that always gives a lot of themselves to everyone. Someone that is used by others in many different senses. Someone who endures emotional pain because of this. Depression occurs in this person, but the person will make it back because there is always hope. This song is dedicated to that very hope.
In an interview available on Youtube, Yannis talks about how on TLF he often used lyrics as a way of writing himself out of of depressive situations, and then he explicitly uses this song as an example. Once you view the lyrics through that lens, they make almost perfect sense - Yannis is almost comforting himself, telling himself whatever bad time he;s going through will eventually pass. If you experience anxiety and depression, this song should be your anthem, your motto. It's incredibly brilliant.
i couldn't figure out the lines where the question marks are, i didn't even wanna guess, cause i have literally no idea what he's saying.
i thought i might as well just post up the lyrics that i knew, cause they aren't on the internet anywhere D:
i think the first ? is "lungs paper frail" and the second ? "and to outweigh this" more sure about the first one but 70 percent sure on the socond one too :)
i think the first ? is "lungs paper frail" and the second ? "and to outweigh this" more sure about the first one but 70 percent sure on the socond one too :)
The verse where you have the question mark could go something like this:
The verse where you have the question mark could go something like this:
Rest yourself, rest your head be still, play dead until we vanish forget all the rest Free yourself free your head don’t drive away open your veins and wait till the rain goes
Rest yourself, rest your head be still, play dead until we vanish forget all the rest Free yourself free your head don’t drive away open your veins and wait till the rain goes
Ok it doesn't make much sense but it's better than question mark, eh? :)
Ok it doesn't make much sense but it's better than question mark, eh? :)
it could be that ! but i'm hearing the word 'requis' where you've put vanish and i don't know why.. that line is such a mystery !
it could be that ! but i'm hearing the word 'requis' where you've put vanish and i don't know why.. that line is such a mystery !
I like the new album. A bit sad compared to the last one, but oh so pretty. I think this one is going to be my winther album for 2010.
I adore this album, this is possibly my favourite song of it. Not only is it a beautiful, swooning and mezmerising song, it's also a song that has effected me in life. I've been in a massive slump, possibly the most depressed I've ever been in my life. I found this record around the time I'd started running, and put Blue Blood at the start of my running playlist, spanish sahara at the end and 2 Trees as a song to listen to as I recover. This beautiful record has actually lifted my spirits, and the uplifting sound and message of this song is one I won't forget :)
I really love your comment. It's exactly how I feel about the song. I'm a really shy girl and schools been hell for me because of it. I haven't been able to open up or talk to anyone in 4 years besides my mother. I had to repeat a grade because I skipped so much school. But I'm back, in 10th grade, and realizing that I do have friends...they just didn't get a chance to know me because I never tried to know them. It's still hard for me to talk to people, but I'm getting better. I have days...
I really love your comment. It's exactly how I feel about the song. I'm a really shy girl and schools been hell for me because of it. I haven't been able to open up or talk to anyone in 4 years besides my mother. I had to repeat a grade because I skipped so much school. But I'm back, in 10th grade, and realizing that I do have friends...they just didn't get a chance to know me because I never tried to know them. It's still hard for me to talk to people, but I'm getting better. I have days where I'm in a really bad mood, where suicidal thoughts come back, and I feel like I won't get past it. That's where music comes in, and this song is definitely one of the reasons I'm still here.
After the first chorus when the E bow sound comes in its the best bit, it's so dark and twisted absoluted bliss
Songs about donating blood, and things go a bit wrong: the person donates to much. I feel hospitals are a reccuring theme on the album
I think it´s maybe aubout dying and accepting it as a part of life.
First off' i adore this band with all my <3
It's about riding yourself out of a paranoid or depressive situation ... About believing whatever the situation it's not the end of the world .. Again superb lyrics