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Lyla Lyrics
Goodmorning Lyla,
The flower's bloomed months ago
And now the branches hang with autumn's fire.
I wake each morning
To feel this ground's gone frozen beneath me-
I dreamed away these months 'til you were gone.
And I found myself waking,
Curled up in my arms with a cigarette in hand,
And the hopes that we held were in my pocket.
Will we ever be,
What this world was to you and me
Will we ever be crying for these days
Will we ever be what this heart held for you and me
Will we ever be the same
And I heard you'd been hanging around,
Those city boys learned to dance so well.
It breaks my heart, it gives me hell,
I'll go to the meadow where we used to lay.
But I still wade into that stream,
The frozen damn water, it tears at me.
But it makes me feel like I'm fighting to breathe
and it's only then I'm scared of dying.
It's only when I see you turn to go
that I know I need your love to stay.
The flower's bloomed months ago
And now the branches hang with autumn's fire.
I wake each morning
To feel this ground's gone frozen beneath me-
I dreamed away these months 'til you were gone.
Curled up in my arms with a cigarette in hand,
And the hopes that we held were in my pocket.
What this world was to you and me
Will we ever be crying for these days
Will we ever be what this heart held for you and me
Will we ever be the same
Those city boys learned to dance so well.
It breaks my heart, it gives me hell,
I'll go to the meadow where we used to lay.
But I still wade into that stream,
The frozen damn water, it tears at me.
But it makes me feel like I'm fighting to breathe
and it's only then I'm scared of dying.
It's only when I see you turn to go
that I know I need your love to stay.
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In the Telephone album, the prevalent theme that Rob Grote (who I'm assuming writes the majority of the lyrics) always comes back to is the "loss" of the girl he loved/loves. She has moved on and is comfortable without him, and that is what's worst of all. Although she is living and well, all (Rob) knows is the girl that he had loved, and now that she has gone so abruptly and is an entirely different person, he can only reflect on her memories as if she were dead.
In a less elegant sense: You know when you've been dating someone for while, then you suddenly break-up and never see them again, so it strangely feels as if they died or something? It's as if one second you have all these hopes and aspirations to share with each other in the future, but in just an instant, it's all gone. At least, it is to Lyla.
Yet, he continues to yearn for what they once had.