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Blue Pastures Lyrics
Blue pastures - fade away
Green rivers in silver light
I'm walking to the sound of distant bells
So peaceful I don't know who I am
And just when I think its clear It turns all grey again
And I wonder who will find me in the snow
And just when I thought I was free I got pulled in again
Once your in, your in.
Blue pastures calling home
I'm Walking but I can't stand anymore
hear voices can't tell near or far
weird voices - Lay me down
And I don't see why I'm obliged to just carry on
When everything I touch turns out wrong
And I feel I've committed some crime - but I don't know what I've done
One Day Life just wins
One day life just wins
Still breathing but I'm Tired and I wanna go home
Still breathing but i'm not sure anymore
Still breathing But it doesn't really matter if I fade away.
Fall into this sleep - fall into the deep.
Green rivers in silver light
I'm walking to the sound of distant bells
So peaceful I don't know who I am
And just when I think its clear It turns all grey again
And I wonder who will find me in the snow
And just when I thought I was free I got pulled in again
Once your in, your in.
Blue pastures calling home
I'm Walking but I can't stand anymore
hear voices can't tell near or far
weird voices - Lay me down
And I don't see why I'm obliged to just carry on
When everything I touch turns out wrong
And I feel I've committed some crime - but I don't know what I've done
One Day Life just wins
One day life just wins
Still breathing but i'm not sure anymore
Still breathing But it doesn't really matter if I fade away.
Fall into this sleep - fall into the deep.
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As someone with schizophrenia, this rather reminds me of my struggles with the illness. 'Blue Pastures' oddly sounds like the name of a mental hospital or rest home. In the first verse, he's been discharged, but starts to decompensate again. "Just when I thought I was free, I got pulled in again/Once you're in, you're in" sounds like the episodic nature of the illness.
The second verse sounds like he's having another episode ("blue pastures calling home..."), and is considering suicide, because he shouldn't have to keep suffering just because his loved ones don't want to be without him ("I don't see why I'm obliged to just carry on"). He eventually accepts that this is how things are, and in the final verse, perhaps has taken his medication in the hospital and drifts off to sleep.
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@SkipWhite thank you! Like to read this. I love the song but for me it is the voices in the head he try to walk away from and also the paranoid thoughts.
@SkipWhite thank you! Like to read this. I love the song but for me it is the voices in the head he try to walk away from and also the paranoid thoughts.
I think from my own paranoid thoughts that we are in classrooms and he can not come from it. As soon the voices stops he think he is free but when you are in or seen you can not avoid it.
I think from my own paranoid thoughts that we are in classrooms and he can not come from it. As soon the voices stops he think he is free but when you are in or seen you can not avoid it.
In the end he simply want to kill him self. I like it it make me sleep.
In the end he simply want to kill him self. I like it it make me sleep.
This song is amazing. I've listened to it 7 or 8 times in a row, I don't think I'll get sick of it. The story he tells with his words and his voice are so amazing. I think everyone can relate to wanting to give up.
This song needs to be played loud on quality speakers.
It's one of James' best.
Hazy memory but during the Glasgow leg of the Whiplash tour I believe Tim mentioned this was about a friend who committed suicide.