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Tell Me About the Forest Lyrics
Tell me about the Forest
You once called home
Farewell now my sister
Up ahead there lies your road
And your conscience walks beside you
It's the best friend you will ever know
And the past is now your future
It bears witness to your soul
Make sure that the love you offer up
Does not fall on barren soil.
For the wind cries of late
In the whispering grass.
Our way of life is held
In the spinning wheels of chance.
I believe in the ways of an older law
When we used to dance to a different drum
And we are changing are ways
Yes we are taking on different roads
Tell me more about the forest
That you once called home.
For the wind cries of late
In the whispering leaves
And the sun will turn to waste
The heavens we build above.
Father teach your children
To treat our mother well
If we give her back her diamonds
She will offer up her pearl.
We must sing her creation song
Jeune du monde
Invoke the spirits that feed us
This dreaming takes too long
But I'm not bitter no I'm surviving
To face the world, to raise the future.
So why don't you tell me, come on and tell me
About the world you left behind.
Come on and tell me.
You once called home
Up ahead there lies your road
And your conscience walks beside you
It's the best friend you will ever know
And the past is now your future
It bears witness to your soul
Make sure that the love you offer up
Does not fall on barren soil.
In the whispering grass.
Our way of life is held
In the spinning wheels of chance.
When we used to dance to a different drum
And we are changing are ways
Yes we are taking on different roads
Tell me more about the forest
That you once called home.
In the whispering leaves
And the sun will turn to waste
The heavens we build above.
To treat our mother well
If we give her back her diamonds
She will offer up her pearl.
Jeune du monde
Invoke the spirits that feed us
This dreaming takes too long
To face the world, to raise the future.
So why don't you tell me, come on and tell me
About the world you left behind.
Come on and tell me.
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This could mean a few things. It could mean a sibling telling his sister to be wary of the world and all of its desires or it could be about the world and it's evolution. Father teach your children could be about ecology and treating the earth with respect. The sun will turn to waste represents global warming. Brenden is singing about how we must protect our world and is asking those who knew it in the past to remember how it once was. But thats just one gal's interpretation.
I love the lyrics of this song, if not so much the song. I think it is about a lost world, literal and figurative. Everything in the world is in vain, yet everything can still be gained, it says so there is a chance for a new world, yet the old was in vain.
Can somebody help me out? On every site I looked there's a part of these lyrics missing. And it's also not mentioned in the booklet. But between "She will offer up her pearl" and "But I'm not bitter, no I'm surviving" he sings some other things that I haven't found anywhere in the lyrics. One line even sounds like it's French?
Great song by the way! I love the way Brendan sings.
This is what I think it is
This is what I think it is
"....she will offer up her pearls
"....she will offer up her pearls
We must sing her ancient song come along Invoke the spirits that feed us, cause dreaming takes too long....
We must sing her ancient song come along Invoke the spirits that feed us, cause dreaming takes too long....
But I'm not bitter no..."
But I'm not bitter no..."
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I'm trying to figure out this part
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I'm trying to figure out this part
"I believe in the way, of long ago and the signs I believe arose long ago?? ......
"I believe in the way, of long ago and the signs I believe arose long ago?? ......
thanks
thanks
We must sing her creation song Jeune du monde Invoke the spirits that feed us This dreaming takes too long
We must sing her creation song Jeune du monde Invoke the spirits that feed us This dreaming takes too long
I think it's
I think it's
Chante du monde
Chante du monde
Meaning song of the world
Meaning song of the world
Not jeune which means young
Not jeune which means young
I'm going to link this song to two artists by influence and explain it in a glib manner.
I almost hear another joy division reference in this song (much like "the procession moves on the shouting is over") in this case, "this dreaming takes too long" is similar to "this treatment takes too long" from JD's "the eternal"
The song, I think it's from the point of view of someone who's been dumped. They had danced to a different drum, but he offered his love on barren soil and now he's trying to be grown-up and say fare-thee well. He has to say he's not bitter, so he really is, he's barely surviving, left feeling that the nature of things is random and ephemeral. The reference to a way of life and a different drum may be "the forest", perhaps a counter-cultural lifestyle dare I say?
IF IT IS, well could this not be the same "The Forest" of Rasputina's "How We Quit The Forest"? "the scene was never what it used to be!"