This Beautiful Life Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Iambandersnatch 

Cover art for This Beautiful Life lyrics by Dear Hunter, The

The last paragraph actually needs a couple further changes that I just noticed we've -> we, and calloused -> callous

Forget the words to the songs that we've heard The passages read all the names in a world That have brought us this pain From the wounds we sustained A cold, callous heart Sitting still in this cave of a chest So abandon a life from before A boy and his innocent...

Another note - the implied word after innocent is probably "girl". That's my opinion anyway. The last word of the song is definitely "innocent" and not "innocence" though.

After another listen I've changed my mind completely. I think the last line is

"A boy in his innocent..."

with "world" being the implied word, not girl.

The whole song is about him regretting that he isn't innocent anymore (because he saw so much violence in the war), so he is imagining / wishing that he was in his previous innocent world.

The lyrics sheet says it's actually:

"A boy in his innocence."

pretty sure the implied word is whore, but seeing as its TDH they'd never say that. It makes the most sense seeing as his "life from before", involved Ms.Leading who in fact was a whore. It also makes sense if you take the previous song on the album into consideration.