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Young Fathers Lyrics
I was born in September
and like everything else, I can't remember
I replace it with scenes from a film that I will never make
When I blinked it was over
I was thinking my life will get slower
That I will sort this shit out when I'm sober
It's even better now that you're older
I read the scares on the front page
It says we're waiting around for an ice age
It says our comforts they come with a price tag
They killed the cancer but discovered a new plague
They said just think of the children
and imagine the world that we've willed them
It's populated with weirdos to kill them
and break their hearts
And everybody knows
This is the end
It's now a fashionable dinner party conversation
Now I'm as old as you were when you had me
Should I be afraid? Should I start a family?
I'd raise them in the wild 'cuz up against the city
My love is such a small thing
When you're young you're hot
You have your whole life before you
Everyone will adore
You'll grow up, you'll be an astronaut
or anything you want.
What goes up goes up in flames
and now your choices surround you
and decision confounds you
and you're pacing around in place
Shows you everything you're not
And in a brief, little romance
you've committed a soul without its consent
Delivered life as a form without its content
because young people get bored everyday
yeah young people, young people get bored
Never went to church
thought a song was gonna save me
so I wrote a hymn on the guitar that you gave me
Singing what you spoke I built a fire with the smoke
You know that hope is just a small thing
I just called to tell you
I just called to say
Learned all your mistakes
You were my inspiration
And it wasn't all we hoped for
But we shake it off and we say
Here's your yellow ribbon
I am your consolation
I was born in September
and if I die today
just know I don't regret you
some things I can explain (like)
It's a slow descent
It's a lifeless place
Every god damned day
(and I know you know)
(no matter where you go)
(that I will follow)
(that I will follow)
(You are my only hope)
(It's not much, but it's all that I know)
(Here's how it goes)
I just called to tell you
I just called to say
Learned all your mistakes
Passed down through generations
and like everything else, I can't remember
I replace it with scenes from a film that I will never make
I was thinking my life will get slower
That I will sort this shit out when I'm sober
It's even better now that you're older
It says we're waiting around for an ice age
It says our comforts they come with a price tag
They killed the cancer but discovered a new plague
and imagine the world that we've willed them
It's populated with weirdos to kill them
and break their hearts
This is the end
It's now a fashionable dinner party conversation
Should I be afraid? Should I start a family?
I'd raise them in the wild 'cuz up against the city
My love is such a small thing
You have your whole life before you
Everyone will adore
You'll grow up, you'll be an astronaut
or anything you want.
and now your choices surround you
and decision confounds you
and you're pacing around in place
Shows you everything you're not
you've committed a soul without its consent
Delivered life as a form without its content
because young people get bored everyday
yeah young people, young people get bored
thought a song was gonna save me
so I wrote a hymn on the guitar that you gave me
Singing what you spoke I built a fire with the smoke
You know that hope is just a small thing
I just called to say
Learned all your mistakes
You were my inspiration
And it wasn't all we hoped for
But we shake it off and we say
Here's your yellow ribbon
I am your consolation
and if I die today
just know I don't regret you
some things I can explain (like)
It's a slow descent
It's a lifeless place
Every god damned day
(no matter where you go)
(that I will follow)
(that I will follow)
(You are my only hope)
(It's not much, but it's all that I know)
(Here's how it goes)
I just called to say
Learned all your mistakes
Passed down through generations
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CANT BELIEVE NO ONE HAS EVEN LEFT A COMMENT. Honestly I love this song, not only because obvvviooouuusssly it's an awesome.... But also its message is probably relatable for many people like me.
To me the song is about a reflection of where he comes from, his family and family members he grew up. Thinking about then, he looks at the NOW and if he became someone he wanted to be like.
In other words, it's about how all that he wanted to be and who wanted to be like is the person he is today. I don't think he wants to change, unless he isn't what he wanted to be.
People please listen to this song cause it's like basically my life story and u never know if you may say the same!
Have a good day and night and life!!!!
For me, it's like a conversation between three generations. Like a guy that talks to his father and his child, contemplating all the changes and the similarities between the generations. Past, present and future all amalgamated in one subjectivity, like a never ending cycle that repeats itself, with little details to differentiate between one and the other.
Hearing this, it seems almost like an apology, and an acknowledgement. It's an apology to a son. It's an acknowledgement to a father.
I can't believe how far off everyone is on here with understanding these lyrics. They are laid right out there for you to understand. As told by the father. It's about his young child dying from bone cancer. Who has the issue cured for a moment. However a plague begins to break out in various patients. As described by the news reports they worry that he might get the disease. Doctors try to treat the patients but it's only killing them quicker and ruining the patients hopes. In the future he is now all grown up child is afraid that if he has children that they will get the genetic illness too. They discover that the sons bone cancer has come back. He then knows that he is not healthy and doesn't know what to do. He ended up getting a woman pregnant after falling in love with her. However it's likely going to produce an offspring with the genetic disease as well. The son of the offspring calls his father up stating that he learned from his mistakes. Meaning that he has followed the very same path as the father. Their life choices and treatment didn't work out the ways they wanted them too. The father of the son tells him that he doesn't regret him even if he dies that day. They both understand that they will die some day soon. While wishing to follow each-other into death. This is then a repeatable pattern that happens down through generations.