I like to think of it as love and Marriage, and how it can be beautiful, but it can also feel like a trap, it can intimidate, become abusive and ultimately collapse.
I'm gonna start with the title, "Marble House"
A "House" is where we live, learn, grow. It's also in some situations where you'd move or hope to be in Marriage, a material foundation that can hold a family, the product of love. Marble is concrete, and often polished very intricate in appearance. "Marble House" seems take take the properties of the stone and apply it to the house. So now we have a hard, beautiful, sheening dwelling of which the inhabitance are originally love. Permanent, unbreakable walls though can also have a reverse effect. Rock can be cold, and unforgiving. Something so thick and protective sounding can also protect things from leaving. Prison walls are made of rock.
"I wanted to see right through from the other side
I wanted to walk a trail with no end in sight"
The "Other side" could be viewed as the afterlife. Wanting to "See through from the other side" means looking back, being reminiscent of the course of life, and the near storybook love that was there. "Walk a trail with no end in sight" is the hope of being together forever, that the love and passion would never run dry. Marriage can be assumed here. Though all of that may seem positive, it's being sung in past tense, which suggest this was what was suppose to happen, but may not have.
"The moment we believe that we have never met
Another kind of love it's easy to forget"
This was said perfectly by duncanmostest above.
"When we are all alone then we do both agree
We have a thing in common this was meant to be"
This to me is what runs through your head when you look into your partners eyes after a length of time and it hits you again... "This is why I love you." The common ground spoken of here is the marriage, and remembering that you got married out of love.. And that must mean it has to last right? After being together for so long it's easy to lose some of the properties of a loving relationship, to lose the "Spark", but when alone it's easy to remember again, remember the love that brought you this far. This is in relative present tense.
"You close my eyes and soothe my ears
You heal my wounds and dry my tears"
Basically, comforting, making things better. But better from what? It could be partner A soothing partner B after partner B scraped their knees. Or, It could be partner A soothing partner B after partner A does something to cause the grief. We don't know.
"On the inside of this marble house I grow
And the seeds I sow will grow up prisoners too"
What do you do when you settle in a house? Well, what happens when you plant a seed? It grows. It connects to and becomes it's surroundings, feeding off and relying on them. Depending on the soil, the crops could prosper or fail and wither.
This is getting lengthy so I'm gonna skip to my favorite part of the song:
"I raise my hands to heaven of curiosity
I don't know what to ask for
What has it got for me?"
Here, "Curiosity" is the key word. I think it could imply that the marriage under God's name, the love that was seen as fate has or is failing.. And that if holy union is failing.. What to do? Times of great despair and confusion.. What can the future hold?
"The others say we're hiding
It's as forward as can be"
It's noticeable to others that love here has or is dying, and it's completely obvious.
"Some things I do for money
Some things I do for free"
Some things are done for a reward. Some things are done, and they're your own award.
I like to think of it as love and Marriage, and how it can be beautiful, but it can also feel like a trap, it can intimidate, become abusive and ultimately collapse.
I'm gonna start with the title, "Marble House" A "House" is where we live, learn, grow. It's also in some situations where you'd move or hope to be in Marriage, a material foundation that can hold a family, the product of love. Marble is concrete, and often polished very intricate in appearance. "Marble House" seems take take the properties of the stone and apply it to the house. So now we have a hard, beautiful, sheening dwelling of which the inhabitance are originally love. Permanent, unbreakable walls though can also have a reverse effect. Rock can be cold, and unforgiving. Something so thick and protective sounding can also protect things from leaving. Prison walls are made of rock.
"I wanted to see right through from the other side I wanted to walk a trail with no end in sight" The "Other side" could be viewed as the afterlife. Wanting to "See through from the other side" means looking back, being reminiscent of the course of life, and the near storybook love that was there. "Walk a trail with no end in sight" is the hope of being together forever, that the love and passion would never run dry. Marriage can be assumed here. Though all of that may seem positive, it's being sung in past tense, which suggest this was what was suppose to happen, but may not have.
"The moment we believe that we have never met Another kind of love it's easy to forget" This was said perfectly by duncanmostest above.
"When we are all alone then we do both agree We have a thing in common this was meant to be" This to me is what runs through your head when you look into your partners eyes after a length of time and it hits you again... "This is why I love you." The common ground spoken of here is the marriage, and remembering that you got married out of love.. And that must mean it has to last right? After being together for so long it's easy to lose some of the properties of a loving relationship, to lose the "Spark", but when alone it's easy to remember again, remember the love that brought you this far. This is in relative present tense.
"You close my eyes and soothe my ears You heal my wounds and dry my tears" Basically, comforting, making things better. But better from what? It could be partner A soothing partner B after partner B scraped their knees. Or, It could be partner A soothing partner B after partner A does something to cause the grief. We don't know.
"On the inside of this marble house I grow And the seeds I sow will grow up prisoners too" What do you do when you settle in a house? Well, what happens when you plant a seed? It grows. It connects to and becomes it's surroundings, feeding off and relying on them. Depending on the soil, the crops could prosper or fail and wither.
This is getting lengthy so I'm gonna skip to my favorite part of the song:
"I raise my hands to heaven of curiosity I don't know what to ask for What has it got for me?" Here, "Curiosity" is the key word. I think it could imply that the marriage under God's name, the love that was seen as fate has or is failing.. And that if holy union is failing.. What to do? Times of great despair and confusion.. What can the future hold?
"The others say we're hiding It's as forward as can be" It's noticeable to others that love here has or is dying, and it's completely obvious.
"Some things I do for money Some things I do for free" Some things are done for a reward. Some things are done, and they're your own award.