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An Apology Lyrics
This is what I know,
The canopy loss of our home
Is a far cry, while I'm away.
Tethered to finding a rope,
We walk in precarious ways.
And go alone at night
To Misery's bed.
In Misery's bed, we stay.
So far away
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Here in the tremble and pulse,
With the rush and the weight of the world.
I am a cannibal, known,
Begging the lashes to break.
You find me awake in a dream,
A scream in the dark, so it seems.
Or is that just how it leaves?
The shadow I cast now the breeze.
So far away
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So this is how it goes,
With the loss of our canopy home.
That falls with the leaves from the trees,
As we pass.
And I wasn't there in the last,
But I was surely there from the first.
Here, in my chest where you burst,
I keep the crush
And the weight of the world.
So far away
The canopy loss of our home
Is a far cry, while I'm away.
We walk in precarious ways.
And go alone at night
To Misery's bed.
In Misery's bed, we stay.
With the rush and the weight of the world.
I am a cannibal, known,
Begging the lashes to break.
A scream in the dark, so it seems.
Or is that just how it leaves?
The shadow I cast now the breeze.
With the loss of our canopy home.
That falls with the leaves from the trees,
As we pass.
But I was surely there from the first.
Here, in my chest where you burst,
I keep the crush
And the weight of the world.
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I am getting the feeling this song is about mankind losing touch to its (natural) roots and moving "so far away" from where it should be.
"The canopy loss of our home Is a far cry, while I'm away" This could mean that during life we're moving more and more away from our actual fate (how human life was supposed to be, but not in an almighty god/designer kind of way) and we always feel something's not quite right, but in a subtle way
"Here in the tremble and pulse, With the rush and the weight of the world. I am a cannibal, known, Begging the lashes to break."
We're pushed/Pushing ourselves into a certain way of living - going to school, working 40h a week, living in big, anonymous cities and we "go alone at night to Misery's bed."
I would not say, however, that this song condemns modern life altogether. It might just be a request to let go off some of the modern distractions and start living a simpler, more loving life with the people we care about