The Joy Formidable

Wolf's Law

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Tell me the way you’ve been
Tell me the way you’ve been (it’s been so long)
I want to go along and pretend that it’s dawn
That’s the start not the close
I’m your friend not your post
We’re under Wolf’s Law

Another new scene that flies
Another empty picture for this collage of mine
I want to pull it back
And pretend that it’s dark
That we made it here unharmed
I’m your friend not your guard
And we’re under Wolf’s Law

[Instrumental]

Turn around turn around turn around

I’ll take the gambling way
Let’s send it spiraling
Just to visit that box

Turn around turn around turn around

Don’t wait, let’s go, go, go
Don’t wait, let’s go, go, go

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yhtrownu On Sep 07, 2012

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by Barabbas_318

12y ago

The song (and album) title really says it all. It's based on a medical theory called Wolff's Law, which states that a bone will strengthen over time to adapt to the stress/weight/pressure put on it. Applied to a relationship, the song is about the strengthening of love between two people that comes from the struggles between them as they face challenges in their relationship together.

The singer "wants to go along and pretend that it's dawn," suggesting a longing for things to be easier. In the end, however, she opts for "the gambling way," which may not be easier but will make what the two lovers have stronger. She can't ignore the bad things they've gone through, the way she's been hurt (the "empty pictures" for her collage), but she wants them to move forward and knows they'll be better for the pain they've experienced together.

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by powdersnowboy

13y ago

Ya...you're under Wolffee's Law...
(our laws of opposites attracting / and the time we have left to share)

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by powdersnowboy

13y ago

I’m your friend not your guard And we’re under Wolf’s Law ...

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