Actually everybody, if you go to triplej.net.au/mel/ there is a Program Highlights section which has an interview with the band where they talk about the meaning behind The Funeral. It's about dreading events like Christmas and birthdays because of all the pressure and stress which leads up to it, and feeling like maybe a funeral wouldn't be much worse. Anyway, follow the link and have a listen to the interview, it's pretty good.
THANK YOU for that informative link! In the interview he also mentioned that, like most BoH songs, it does go off-tangent a bit and may be deeper than just not enjoying social gatherings. But clearly, that's the original point of the song.
THANK YOU for that informative link! In the interview he also mentioned that, like most BoH songs, it does go off-tangent a bit and may be deeper than just not enjoying social gatherings. But clearly, that's the original point of the song.
I have to wonder if he twisted the lyrics a bit to refer to an actual funeral, though. "I'm coming up only to hold you under" is like he is choosing to attend the funeral as a final farewell (just being at the funeral is the admitting of death and achieving closure), thus, holding the deceased under ground. "We wait for morning to wake you": The mourning of the deceased often turns into the "wake" or rebirth of that person's soul in the memories of the living.
That meaning is only faintly suggested through the chorus. Regardless of what the band may have intended for the song to mean (and honestly it was a poor attempt at getting that across), I think the various other interpretations put forth here capture the true emotion that the song elicits.
That meaning is only faintly suggested through the chorus. Regardless of what the band may have intended for the song to mean (and honestly it was a poor attempt at getting that across), I think the various other interpretations put forth here capture the true emotion that the song elicits.
@kittenangel The lyrics are really ambigous in my opinion. however i liike the fact that "we wait for morning to wake you" can be taken two ways... the other being we wait for mourning to wake you--as when someone passes is the only real time we think about death and how much time we have left...we need to wake up.
@kittenangel The lyrics are really ambigous in my opinion. however i liike the fact that "we wait for morning to wake you" can be taken two ways... the other being we wait for mourning to wake you--as when someone passes is the only real time we think about death and how much time we have left...we need to wake up.
Actually everybody, if you go to triplej.net.au/mel/ there is a Program Highlights section which has an interview with the band where they talk about the meaning behind The Funeral. It's about dreading events like Christmas and birthdays because of all the pressure and stress which leads up to it, and feeling like maybe a funeral wouldn't be much worse. Anyway, follow the link and have a listen to the interview, it's pretty good.
THANK YOU for that informative link! In the interview he also mentioned that, like most BoH songs, it does go off-tangent a bit and may be deeper than just not enjoying social gatherings. But clearly, that's the original point of the song.
THANK YOU for that informative link! In the interview he also mentioned that, like most BoH songs, it does go off-tangent a bit and may be deeper than just not enjoying social gatherings. But clearly, that's the original point of the song.
I have to wonder if he twisted the lyrics a bit to refer to an actual funeral, though. "I'm coming up only to hold you under" is like he is choosing to attend the funeral as a final farewell (just being at the funeral is the admitting of death and achieving closure), thus, holding the deceased under ground. "We wait for morning to wake you": The mourning of the deceased often turns into the "wake" or rebirth of that person's soul in the memories of the living.
That meaning is only faintly suggested through the chorus. Regardless of what the band may have intended for the song to mean (and honestly it was a poor attempt at getting that across), I think the various other interpretations put forth here capture the true emotion that the song elicits.
That meaning is only faintly suggested through the chorus. Regardless of what the band may have intended for the song to mean (and honestly it was a poor attempt at getting that across), I think the various other interpretations put forth here capture the true emotion that the song elicits.
@kittenangel The lyrics are really ambigous in my opinion. however i liike the fact that "we wait for morning to wake you" can be taken two ways... the other being we wait for mourning to wake you--as when someone passes is the only real time we think about death and how much time we have left...we need to wake up.
@kittenangel The lyrics are really ambigous in my opinion. however i liike the fact that "we wait for morning to wake you" can be taken two ways... the other being we wait for mourning to wake you--as when someone passes is the only real time we think about death and how much time we have left...we need to wake up.