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Tuck The Darkness In Lyrics
Well, the light was rust, and the cold was in our knees,
and our breath poured out over golden fields
Though I could not know then, we’d have but few times like these,
with all the good smoke in between
Tucked the darkness in, dragged the harrow across the land,
found my fresh start, sowed my wildest dreams
Though I could not know then, I was well in the weeds,
a tangled mess, whatever could come next
before the hours took over,
before the full weight was on our shoulders,
before the twilight’s cover,
before I knew time was such a swindler
Oh my dear friend, everything falls to death
We tuck the darkness in, we tuck the darkness in
Oh my dear friend, everything falls to death
We tuck the darkness in, we tuck the darkness in
and our breath poured out over golden fields
Though I could not know then, we’d have but few times like these,
with all the good smoke in between
found my fresh start, sowed my wildest dreams
Though I could not know then, I was well in the weeds,
a tangled mess, whatever could come next
before the full weight was on our shoulders,
before the twilight’s cover,
before I knew time was such a swindler
We tuck the darkness in, we tuck the darkness in
Oh my dear friend, everything falls to death
We tuck the darkness in, we tuck the darkness in
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Can't believe no one has commented on this yet! I read somewhere that this song was written about a friend of theirs who died in an accident. All their lyrics are powerful, but knowing that makes this one even more poignant.
I heard this song for the first time this evening. I had to comment only because the song hit me so hard. To me it seems to be about the fleeting moments we have with our loved ones and about the inevitability of death. It brought me to tears with memories of my father and how, at those wonderous moments, I failed to realize that I would too soon suffer his loss. In the video the boy brings the fish back to life at the end. Is this perhaps a metaphor for how people can live on in our memories? Or perhaps how we can bring true life into this one by appreciating the fact that life, itself, is fleeting?
Beautiful.
Heard this today for the first time & had to find the artist. Beautiful, haunting, bittersweet.