This song is amazingly beautiful. I definitely see it as a love song, but better than any other: it's real.
I read the line "tossing aside from your birches crown" as a grammar mistake. The line seems like it should be, "tossing aside from your birch's crown." The crown of a tree is where the shadow begins and the light shines over. This segues perfectly into the next two lines: "just enough dark to see/how you're the light over me"
Relationships aren't easy, there are definitely moments where there's darkness... but in a great one, there's only enough darkness to make the good times (the light) even better.
The rest of the song talks about how fast the world moves, how busy we all are, how we all get down sometimes, but at the center, there's this relationship that ages together and provides a solid place from which to go out into the world.
Or, it's a love song to nature, pure and simple, same sentiments apply. And then "birches" would make sense, as the earth would have a crown made of more than one birch. Either way, I like the use of the birch as the tree - they've long been regarded as magical and royal in mythology.
Love your analysis on the song. I completely agree with you on the part about the transition into talking about light/darkness. However, when he talks about the crown of the birch I think it's more symbolic of the crown (A tree's branches and leaves etc) still having those gaps that let the sunshine through regardless of the shade it is trying to cover. He talks about how hard relationships are, and with that crown, the amount of darkness it gives off allows him to better appreciate the rays of sunlight that parts of the crown let through....
Love your analysis on the song. I completely agree with you on the part about the transition into talking about light/darkness. However, when he talks about the crown of the birch I think it's more symbolic of the crown (A tree's branches and leaves etc) still having those gaps that let the sunshine through regardless of the shade it is trying to cover. He talks about how hard relationships are, and with that crown, the amount of darkness it gives off allows him to better appreciate the rays of sunlight that parts of the crown let through. I realize your comment was in 2010 but I was recently lucky enough to stumble into this band's music, I hope this reaches you!
This song is amazingly beautiful. I definitely see it as a love song, but better than any other: it's real.
I read the line "tossing aside from your birches crown" as a grammar mistake. The line seems like it should be, "tossing aside from your birch's crown." The crown of a tree is where the shadow begins and the light shines over. This segues perfectly into the next two lines: "just enough dark to see/how you're the light over me"
Relationships aren't easy, there are definitely moments where there's darkness... but in a great one, there's only enough darkness to make the good times (the light) even better.
The rest of the song talks about how fast the world moves, how busy we all are, how we all get down sometimes, but at the center, there's this relationship that ages together and provides a solid place from which to go out into the world.
Or, it's a love song to nature, pure and simple, same sentiments apply. And then "birches" would make sense, as the earth would have a crown made of more than one birch. Either way, I like the use of the birch as the tree - they've long been regarded as magical and royal in mythology.
True love. In the song and for it.
Love your analysis on the song. I completely agree with you on the part about the transition into talking about light/darkness. However, when he talks about the crown of the birch I think it's more symbolic of the crown (A tree's branches and leaves etc) still having those gaps that let the sunshine through regardless of the shade it is trying to cover. He talks about how hard relationships are, and with that crown, the amount of darkness it gives off allows him to better appreciate the rays of sunlight that parts of the crown let through....
Love your analysis on the song. I completely agree with you on the part about the transition into talking about light/darkness. However, when he talks about the crown of the birch I think it's more symbolic of the crown (A tree's branches and leaves etc) still having those gaps that let the sunshine through regardless of the shade it is trying to cover. He talks about how hard relationships are, and with that crown, the amount of darkness it gives off allows him to better appreciate the rays of sunlight that parts of the crown let through. I realize your comment was in 2010 but I was recently lucky enough to stumble into this band's music, I hope this reaches you!