first of all, beautiful song. but i made this whole story up in my mind that could be true, or maybe dead wrong, idk. but so charlie fink and laura marling were together, and wrote these songs in Peaceful, the World Lays me Down. and then after the ablum was released, they broke up, she left the band. then The First Days of Spring were born, which was his extremely emotional amazing break up album (the best one created in the world, btw). so perhaps, i was thinking, they broke up because charlie was becoming depressed, and getting diagnosed with depression. so he wrote this song while they were still together, im guessing about laura, how he fell in love with the world in her, and it made him feel whole, so she helped him feel a lot better with his depression, and the hold my hand as im lowered part makes me think this song was sort of asking her to stay with him, and hold his hand as things got worse and worse, because she made him feel whole. but, she couldnt do that, so they break up, she couldnt handle it. then she writes 'id be sad that i could never hold your hand as you were lowered, but id understand the world does what it does' as in she couldnt help who she was, or what the world was, and she couldnt stay with him, because she is just laura. thats just my theory.
first of all, beautiful song. but i made this whole story up in my mind that could be true, or maybe dead wrong, idk. but so charlie fink and laura marling were together, and wrote these songs in Peaceful, the World Lays me Down. and then after the ablum was released, they broke up, she left the band. then The First Days of Spring were born, which was his extremely emotional amazing break up album (the best one created in the world, btw). so perhaps, i was thinking, they broke up because charlie was becoming depressed, and getting diagnosed with depression. so he wrote this song while they were still together, im guessing about laura, how he fell in love with the world in her, and it made him feel whole, so she helped him feel a lot better with his depression, and the hold my hand as im lowered part makes me think this song was sort of asking her to stay with him, and hold his hand as things got worse and worse, because she made him feel whole. but, she couldnt do that, so they break up, she couldnt handle it. then she writes 'id be sad that i could never hold your hand as you were lowered, but id understand the world does what it does' as in she couldnt help who she was, or what the world was, and she couldnt stay with him, because she is just laura. thats just my theory.