Teach Me to Know

Its an awesome song to belt out first off ... but I think its about wondering when you end up together with the person you find special.

Its sort of like a waiting period. You think you have a good idea that the person feels the same way so its like "tell me the number of days" till things HAPPEN.

I think we can all relate to this .. but perhaps its not something that anybody knows. Getting carried away happens so in the moment ... in a beautiful instance ... and you just never know when that can be.

i.e. Beauty of Life.

First - a lot of these lyrics are wrong.

Aside from that, usually when I listen to a song I always see it as a relationship either gone wrong, in love or some aspect of it. But when I first listened to this song - I just had their cd on and listened to it. It kind of reminds me of Jesus/God and religion.

It's not a sad song - it's played with a lot of enthusiasm and drums which makes me think it's a song meant to be happy and powerful. The feeling I get is that the singer is asking someone - God or whomever - to help him hold out his heart for something. In life you get carried away in moments and I think he's asking for a little guidance when that happens.

"Teach me to know my number of days Hold out my heart from getting carried"

When I get carried away in moments in my life - help me to be patient, be focused on what I really want.

1. Oof, I agree with the above, lots of transcribing mistakes. I submitted a fixed (imo) version, we'll see if it takes.

2. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE The Lone Bellow! But this song, even in a more accurate version, I kinda get the impression the band put in some placeholder lyrics as they roughed out the song, and then never went back and changed those words.

3. It kind of makes sense? I think? My guess is the meaning has to do with ancestry of all things. "First born, carried promise of the old one, you're the same but somehow different, you bear the burdens of the line". The firstborn is feeling the weight of his ancestry. The next verse, "It breaks in...." has me completely perplexed. Something is coming to this firstborn kid on a morning that seemed at first like any other morning. No idea what this something is. And I'm not sure what is carrying the firstborn away in the chorus.

4. Next verse, nice contrast between uncertainty over an eon of time vs the immediacy of these burning simple seconds. Someone or something is bringing up short the firstborn. Some realization? The call of his forefathers and mothers? I dunno.

5. I think the firstborn is asking his ancestors to "teach me to know my number of days"? Not sure how to interpret "Hold <on? Off?> my heart from getting carried.

6. The funny thing is that even though I have little idea what this song means, I sing lead on it in my band's cover of it. And I LOVE singing this song! So I guess, lyrics, schmyrics :)