In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Chimes sing Sunday morn
Today's the day she's sworn
To steal what she never could own
And race from this hole she calls home
Now you're at the wheel
Tell me how, how does it feel?
So good to have equalized
To lift up the lids of your eyes
As the miles, they disappear
See land begin to clear
Free from the filth and the scum
This American satellites won
She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
See the steeple pine
The hills as old as time
Soon to be put to the test
To be whipped by the winds of the west
Stands on shifting sands
The scales held in her hands
The wind it just whips her and wails
And fills up her brigantine sails
She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
Today's the day she's sworn
To steal what she never could own
And race from this hole she calls home
Now you're at the wheel
Tell me how, how does it feel?
So good to have equalized
To lift up the lids of your eyes
As the miles, they disappear
See land begin to clear
Free from the filth and the scum
This American satellites won
She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
See the steeple pine
The hills as old as time
Soon to be put to the test
To be whipped by the winds of the west
Stands on shifting sands
The scales held in her hands
The wind it just whips her and wails
And fills up her brigantine sails
She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
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This is an astonishing song, great riff and those lyrics... I'm not a flag waver or anything but I think this is one of the most profoundly patriotic songs i've ever heard. Britain's got its faults, its old and creaky, it lives in the past etc, but despite being almost submerged by the influence of US culture it carries on in its rickety eccentric way. The absolute master stroke is that the song is in the style of a sea shanty with Ian Brown doing his folky best to sound like a 19th century troubador. Effin Brillliant!
@hipshot I'm not sure about the sea shanty bit or about Brown being like a troubador, but I can definitely see what you mean about it in the patriotic sense. I had never listened to it in that way before. I dont see how the first two verses fit in to that thought, though?
@hipshot There is no influence of US culture in Britain you retard. America speaks our language, listens to our music, and even follows our legal code. Britain has no "rickety eccentric" way, one shitty country that sticks to a 230 year old "2nd Amendment" certainly does though.
@joseph1052 I’m sorry, Joseph, but where do you think the work derogatory insult, “retard” comes from? You are very wrong to think British culture hasn’t been influenced by true U.S. It has, however, go both ways. They have influenced each other. Pretty much all British music has been influenced by, or directly imitates, American music made since the birth jazz, blues and rock and roll, and later with punk, rap and hip hop. There would be no Beatles, no Stones (Just a couple of obvious examples out of the thousands and thousands) and definitely no Stone Roses without the influence of American music on young British kids and their bands ove the past eighty years or so.