The darkness, the coal mines knew it best
When the daylight headed west and disappeared
Progression, on the morning goes
But regardless no one knows the day has cleared
Oh we are blind

I'll be the flowers of the field that slowly bloom
While you are soundly sleeping on the ground
And I'll be your escort in a sad waltz around the room
I'll twirl you all around without a sound

The snowfall, the great lakes know it best
When the summers travel west and disappear
Like dry ice, the snowcaps on the hills
Melt like 50 dollar bills of our new year
Oh we are cold

I'll be the flowers of the field that slowly bloom
While you are soundly sleeping on the ground
And I'll be your escort in a sad waltz around the room
I'll twirl you all around without a sound

We're trying hard to alleviate this dizzy feeling
We're skipping meals because it feels that bad
If we survive we'll stay alive below the ceiling
Of new atmospheres and brighter years that we'll have


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Flowers Of The Field Lyrics as written by Adam R. Young

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    My Interpretation

    These meanings are from my perspective and my experience on how Adam Young interpreted it but I'm not sure if that's what Adam meant about the song, but here are my interpretations of it. Tip: Every Adam Young song at least has some metaphors, so the lyrics could be metaphorical.

    "The darkness, the coal mines knew it best When the daylight headed west and disappeared Progression, on the morning, goes But regardless no one knows the day has cleared Oh we are blind"

    1st Part: It talks about darkness, and how coal mines are dark like darkness so that's why coal mines knew it best.

    It talks about daylight disappearing, it could be the daylight in our lives making us feel empty, or someone being our daylight, and that person that has gone away made us dark and sad.

    Then it talks about the progression of every morning that goes by, but still not knowing the day has cleared, and us being blind. It could mean that every morning there is a progression, that every morning the day is cleared, but us not knowing that the day has cleared and that we are alive and free, makes us still feel that we are empty and the darkness of now knowing that the day has cleared makes us blind. And it could be a metaphor because of how darkness came when the daylight disappeared making everything blind including us; not knowing that day and daylight always come back every morning and that there is progression every morning too.

    "I'll be the flowers of the field that slowly bloom While you are soundly sleeping on the ground And I'll be your escort in a sad waltz around the room I'll twirl you all around without a sound"

    2nd Part: The flowers of the field might mean a person or someone or something that helps us when we are asleep and living, it could be God, or a loved one. And the flowers of the field will help us and make us not feel empty and dark, and feel full of happiness and be positive! The flowers of the field are the ones that'll slowly bloom while we are soundly sleeping on the ground, or escort us in a sad waltz around the room, and twirl us all around without a sound.

    The snowfall and the great lakes know it best When the summers travel west and disappear Like dry ice, the snowcaps on the hills Melt like 50 dollar bills of our new year Oh we are cold

    3rd Part: In here it's kind of the same thing as the 1st part but being cold, the snowfall becomes cold, and the great lakes freeze, because of the summer traveling west and disappearing making everything cold, again it could be a metaphor about life being dark and cold, because of something going away like daylight and summer, because when daylight and summer go away, everything becomes dark and cold. But then it talks about ice caps on the hills melting, it could mean the ice caps melt because summer came back; and that there is light and heat in every darkness and cold, but still we are cold because we forget that there is light and heat in our lives that help us fight against from the darkness and cold in our lives.

    "I'll be the flowers of the field that slowly bloom While you are soundly sleeping on the ground And I'll be your escort in a sad waltz around the room I'll twirl you all around without a sound"

    4th Part: The flowers of the field might mean a person or someone or something that helps us when we are asleep and living, it could be God, or a loved one. And the flowers of the field will help us and make us not feel empty and dark, and feel full of happiness and be positive! The flowers of the field are the ones that'll slowly bloom while we are soundly sleeping on the ground, or escort us in a sad waltz around the room, and twirl us all around without a sound.

    "We're trying hard to alleviate this dizzy feeling We're skipping meals because it feels that bad If we survive we'll stay alive below the ceiling Of new atmospheres and brighter years that we'll have"

    5th Part: To summarize part 5, it talks about how we always try hard to get away from these dark, empty, dizzy feelings. Making us skip meals and feel sad, but in the end, if we survive we'll always stay alive and free, because there will always be new brighter years that we'll always have in every journey in life.

    TO SUMMARIZE EVERYTHING IN THE SONG:

    To me the feeling of the song and how the lyrics go, I think it really talks about struggles in life, but even if there are struggles in life there are always times where we are content and happy, just like how the lyrics go. "When the Daylight headed west and disappered." "But regardless no one knows the day has cleared"

    I think it means that in every circumstance of challenges, it could be the daylight dissapearing in our lives that there will always be a new day that will come.

    But also in the chorus it talks about "The Flowers of the field that slowly bloom" I think it meant that in every sadness there will be always that happiness in our lives, the flowers of the field represents the happiness that comes back and always comes back, even while we sleep, or do a sad waltz, the flowers of the field will help us and encourage us to keep going, and it could also represent God helping us through our journeys and challenges, considering that Adam is also Christian and me too.

    Then it talks about "The snowfall, the great lakes know it best" "When the summers travel west and disappear" To me it really talks about how even if there are snowfalls and great lakes freezing, when the summers travel and disappear, that even though that happiness may go away and we may feel cold and empty, it'll come back, just like what it says in the next verses. "Like dry ice, the snowcaps on the hills" "Melt like 50 dollar bills of our new year" "Oh we are cold" That summer will always come back, that happiness will always come back, that the dry ice, the coldness will melt like 50 dollar bills because summer came back, that happiness will always come back to melt those cold, empty, sad feelings. But yet we are still cold, because we don't recognize that happiness will always come back, that there will be a time of peace and happiness.

    Then in the last part it talks about "We're trying hard to alleviate this dizzy feeling" "We're skipping meals because it feels that bad" I think it talks about how even though we try hard to remove those dizzy, empty, sad feelings, and that even if we skip meals when it feels bad, it still talks here about how...

    "If we survive we'll stay alive below the ceiling" "Of new atmospheres and brighter years that we'll have" If we survive even through these dizzy feelings and skipping meals, if we survive we'll always stay alive through these moments, and we don't really recognize that being alive is a blessing and surviving is truly a blessing even if we are sad and empty, that these new atmospheres and brighter years will always come and make us feel happy again that through these emptiness and sadness, we'll soon have brighter years again and new atmospheres of happiness.

    And that's my take on the song "The Flowers Of The Field by Sky Sailing" I hope you get it, sorry if you didn't; this is my first time interpreting a song, especially from Sky Sailing. But thanks fpr reading, have a nice day and God bless!

    joshua4f6on November 13, 2022   Link
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    This song wasn't available on the iTunes CD that was released this week. Where can I find this song?

    L0VEL0VEL0VEon July 20, 2010   Link
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    This is my favorite song on the whole album. I don't really know how to describe it, its almost sad, but happy at the same time.

    ParasailingOwlson September 29, 2010   Link

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