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Dig down to the earth here outside, lose my mind here any day now.
Don't be sad, we're only half way there, oh no, that's what I call home.
You remember the hills we slithered down. "I'm not going anywhere," you lied.
Hell on my own, hell here on my own and don't go imagining that time is medicine.
Mark those days and swallow your pills, proud of my wise head on young shoulders.
Too bad there was nothing there at all.
Hell on my own, hell here on my own and it was such a really cold hand.
I held as the wind sighed, "I'm not going and how could I lie?"
Just be glad there's no way back there,
I need another look at before though heaven knows how I'd ever make my way back there.
And I need another look at before although heaven knows how I'd ever make my way back there.
Now I know it's hopeless and I realize it's nowhere, hell here on my own.
Don't be sad, we're only half way there, oh no, that's what I call home.
You remember the hills we slithered down. "I'm not going anywhere," you lied.
Mark those days and swallow your pills, proud of my wise head on young shoulders.
Too bad there was nothing there at all.
I held as the wind sighed, "I'm not going and how could I lie?"
Just be glad there's no way back there,
I need another look at before though heaven knows how I'd ever make my way back there.
And I need another look at before although heaven knows how I'd ever make my way back there.
Now I know it's hopeless and I realize it's nowhere, hell here on my own.
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Probably the saddest song The Sundays have ever written.
I believe this song to be about a dead lover. The death of the lover is implied to be at some fault of the narrator possibly an accident or something a lot more sinister (digging the earth). Either way it's close to where the two (now one) live/lived. The narrator cannot bring herself to go back to a place she once loved because of the darkness surrounding it. Now the narrator has to live in a ''hell on her own'' because of what has happened.
Medicine refers to the old idiom that time can heal. But the narrator mocks this claim and says that time will never heal what has occurred or how she feels. It also seems she shows some remorse for her actions as she holds the ''cold hand'' and says she's not going anywhere but her guilt/sadness causes her to anyway.
Such a sad and dark song.