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Dark Bird Is Home Lyrics
So there were no higher mountains
It's all in your hands
valley was a future sea
and now sail is the plan
In this travel with no journey
I lose until I'm light
letting go of mind to have
what I'm keeping now
Suddenly the day gets you down
But this is not the end
no, this is fine
We're still the towers in the valley
we're still winds down this dream
still we're in the light of day
with our ghosts within
There are many ways of sorrow
for just stepping out
everyday a growling storm
but they're kind somehow
I fall in love but keep on falling
I held you for life
Letting go rope in hand
there’s just leaving now
Suddenly the day gets you down
but this is not the end
no, this is fine
Still, we're biking, laugh in memories
still winds down the stream
still we're in the light of day
with our ghosts within
When there’s no one on the bottom
you got there alone
kicking up some dust to see
where a wind could blow
All the ways to ride a lightning
I've used up a few
I just want you to be safe
as I thunder through
Suddenly the day gets you down
But this is not the end
no, this is fine
We're still the towers in the valley
we're still winds down this dream
still we're in the light of day
with our ghosts within
No, this is not the end
no final tears that we need to show
I thought that this would last for a million years
But now I need to go.
Oh, fuck.
It's all in your hands
valley was a future sea
and now sail is the plan
I lose until I'm light
letting go of mind to have
what I'm keeping now
But this is not the end
no, this is fine
we're still winds down this dream
still we're in the light of day
with our ghosts within
for just stepping out
everyday a growling storm
but they're kind somehow
I held you for life
Letting go rope in hand
there’s just leaving now
but this is not the end
no, this is fine
still winds down the stream
still we're in the light of day
with our ghosts within
you got there alone
kicking up some dust to see
where a wind could blow
I've used up a few
I just want you to be safe
as I thunder through
But this is not the end
no, this is fine
we're still winds down this dream
still we're in the light of day
with our ghosts within
no final tears that we need to show
I thought that this would last for a million years
Oh, fuck.
Song Info
Submitted by
sonvis On Apr 15, 2015
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Some nice callbacks here. "there’s just leaving now" of course, in contrast to There's No Leaving Now, but perhaps, more importantly, this one, "So there were no higher mountains", contrasting Troubles Will Be Gone, which says:
But there's that sign up to a hill to see the far of the land Well the sign will say, "There's still a higher one"
If the message of TWBG is something like 'you'll always have more mountains to conquer', here Mattson seems to have resorted to the conclusion that perhaps that greatest peak came and went. Kinda grim, but the whole song is hopeful in a sort of grim way.
@infinityontrial Good observation with the connection to his earlier work.
@infinityontrial Good observation with the connection to his earlier work.
I heard from a live performance that this song is about his divorce. As someone who is going through a painful breakup right now this song nails it on the head.
I heard from a live performance that this song is about his divorce. As someone who is going through a painful breakup right now this song nails it on the head.
Trying to make peace with something that was once beautiful that is now gone and to accept that life goes on. "This is not the end, no this is fine".
Trying to make peace with something that was once beautiful that is now gone and to accept that life goes on. "This is not the end, no this is fine".
I interpret the verses differently every-time. Are they metaphors for his ex wife? Are they about him? is it just about travel and journeying? I love this,...
I interpret the verses differently every-time. Are they metaphors for his ex wife? Are they about him? is it just about travel and journeying? I love this, I can imagine something different every-time.
The ending is just perfect. At the end of all the string and questioning, at the final stage of a breakup you just have to stay, "I thought that this would last for a million years but now I need to go.. oh f**k".
Says it all.