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Palace Lyrics
You were simpler,
you were lighter when we thought like little kids.
Like a weightless, hate-less animal,
beautifully oblivious before you were hid inside a stranger you grew into,
as you learned to disconnect.
Now he hangs your mirrors separately,
so one can’t show you what the other reflects.
When he heard I was on his tail, he emptied your account and hid a part of you that’s so invaluable
(the part of you unsellable at any amount).
He left the tallest peak of your paradise
buried in the bottom of a canyon in hell,
but I swear I’ll find your light in the middle,
where there’s so little late at night, down in the pit of the well.
Then when heaven has a line around the corner,
we shouldn’t have to wait around and hope to get in
if we can carpenter a home in our heart right now
and carve a palace from within.
We won’t need to take a ton of pictures,
It won’t be easy to believe
the day we wake inside a secret place that everyone can see.
you were lighter when we thought like little kids.
Like a weightless, hate-less animal,
beautifully oblivious before you were hid inside a stranger you grew into,
as you learned to disconnect.
so one can’t show you what the other reflects.
(the part of you unsellable at any amount).
He left the tallest peak of your paradise
buried in the bottom of a canyon in hell,
where there’s so little late at night, down in the pit of the well.
we shouldn’t have to wait around and hope to get in
if we can carpenter a home in our heart right now
and carve a palace from within.
It won’t be easy to believe
the day we wake inside a secret place that everyone can see.
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I get the vibe that the narrator is singing to a friend or a lover or even a family member who's been the object of some sort of abuse, and now has trouble finding happiness again. This is the key part to me:
"He left the tallest peak of your paradise buried in the bottom of a canyon in hell,
but I swear I’ll find your light in the middle, where there’s so little late at night, down in the pit of the well."
The narrator is promising that he'll help him/her find their inner beauty and happiness again, even though it's been buried deep beneath the scars of abuse and being treated badly.
"Then when heaven has a line around the corner, we shouldn’t have to wait around and hope to get in if we can carpenter a home in our heart right now and carve a palace from within."
This to me sounds like even the narrator has had a rough patch, and they both find solace in each other. They shut out the world and find happiness in exile, together.
Absolutely beautiful. I think it's the best thing they've done since Hospice. Can't wait for the new album.
He is singing to people we were before we grew into the self-hating, regretful and made to feel guilty people we have become.
He is singing to people we were before we grew into the self-hating, regretful and made to feel guilty people we have become.
He is speaking out against the idea of someone else holding our value in their opinion.
He is speaking out against the idea of someone else holding our value in their opinion.
He sees the true nature of people, that everyone has everything they need and are beautiful and pure. With encouragement he says we can make ourselves into the people we really are, without negativity or resentments.
He sees the true nature of people, that everyone has everything they need and are beautiful and pure. With encouragement he says we can make ourselves into the people we really are, without negativity or resentments.
To me, he is singing out against the idea of being judged before going to heaven. That the idea of a god will place its...
To me, he is singing out against the idea of being judged before going to heaven. That the idea of a god will place its judgement of your true value. With realism and value in self we can awaken to the true potential we have inside.
Why wait for a paradise? This isn't a metaphor for love but rather for understanding the self and breaking down the misconceptions that separate us from each other.
I think this is just a song about growing up and how much of yourself you loose when the child inside you becomes an adult and has to face the world.
Cyberghost is right. This is not a love song, or a song about abuse.
This is a song about losing the most important parts of yourself to a world some of us never really figure out how to control.
The last verse is also quite clearly about surveillance and having no privacy, so that there's not even anywhere you can hide when you are one of these people.
@eadgbe123 I personally don't like saying that there's a right or wrong interpretation for song lyrics, but I can see how it can be taken as just that. I feel like there are parts to this lyrics that hint at something more, however, such as this:
@eadgbe123 I personally don't like saying that there's a right or wrong interpretation for song lyrics, but I can see how it can be taken as just that. I feel like there are parts to this lyrics that hint at something more, however, such as this:
"When he heard I was on his tail he emptied your account and hid a part of you that’s so invaluable"
"When he heard I was on his tail he emptied your account and hid a part of you that’s so invaluable"
and
and
"Now he hangs your mirrors separately, so can't show you what the other reflects"
"Now he hangs your mirrors separately, so can't show you what the other reflects"
@eadgbe123 I took the last verse as two people building such a strong and happy sanctuary within themselves that people around them will see the manifestation of that happiness, though indicated by the previous line, not necessarily believe it.
@eadgbe123 I took the last verse as two people building such a strong and happy sanctuary within themselves that people around them will see the manifestation of that happiness, though indicated by the previous line, not necessarily believe it.
You all have to watch the nerdist session of this song. It's just incredible
You all have to watch the nerdist session of this song. It's just incredible
It's funny I hear done line differently ("beautifully oblivious before you were hiS") and it changed my idea of what the song was about. It definitely sounds like "hid," though, and that makes it more about people who change instead of classic envious outsider white knight love song.
Still think it's "if we can go into a home in our heart right now" though