I love this song! I've been looking for a job and turned to the only people I thought would help me out and was turned away. I felt so betrayed and listening to this song really helped me move on.
Here is my interpretation:
The short: In life, people betray you and break your heart. It won't kill you.
The long: I think of this song as Sia telling her younger innocent self (or another person) who has just gone through her first major breakup that this is a part of life and she will survive it
as Sia did "Death by Chocolate is a myth, This I know because I've lived"
I think of "Death by Chocolate is a myth" as a playful way of saying... eat your feelings! Lol Chocolate helps to heal a broken heart and it wont kill you.
Sia goes on to say "Death by crying doesn't exist" Crying your eyes out is a part of healing and that things will get better. It feels like you might explode is a way of addressing how young girls will dramatize something as devastating as a breakup (or whatever it is... for me, it was losing out on a job and feeling betrayed by people who i felt always had my back)
The chorus:
"Tears on your pillow will dry and you will learn
Just how to love again
Oh my weeping willow
Let your leaves fall and return
Oh darling the seasons are your friend"
I believe here she's saying you will survive this. The world continues spinning, seasons go by and then likens the girl to a weeping willow that endures the seasons but is still standing at the end of them. The seasons help you to grow and thus "are your friends"
The next verse:
Death by anger this is true...
Is her saying don't let the anger consume you. First is sadness and then anger kicks in and it can be a dangerous thing.
To answer your question eternalsunshine11, "he's but a falling leaf" alludes to how a tree though the many seasons will grow and shed leaves and he's just an insignificant part of that process. In all the she will endure and go through... he's just one single falling leaf.
I love this song! I've been looking for a job and turned to the only people I thought would help me out and was turned away. I felt so betrayed and listening to this song really helped me move on.
Here is my interpretation:
The short: In life, people betray you and break your heart. It won't kill you.
The long: I think of this song as Sia telling her younger innocent self (or another person) who has just gone through her first major breakup that this is a part of life and she will survive it as Sia did "Death by Chocolate is a myth, This I know because I've lived"
I think of "Death by Chocolate is a myth" as a playful way of saying... eat your feelings! Lol Chocolate helps to heal a broken heart and it wont kill you.
Sia goes on to say "Death by crying doesn't exist" Crying your eyes out is a part of healing and that things will get better. It feels like you might explode is a way of addressing how young girls will dramatize something as devastating as a breakup (or whatever it is... for me, it was losing out on a job and feeling betrayed by people who i felt always had my back)
The chorus: "Tears on your pillow will dry and you will learn Just how to love again Oh my weeping willow Let your leaves fall and return Oh darling the seasons are your friend"
I believe here she's saying you will survive this. The world continues spinning, seasons go by and then likens the girl to a weeping willow that endures the seasons but is still standing at the end of them. The seasons help you to grow and thus "are your friends"
The next verse: Death by anger this is true...
Is her saying don't let the anger consume you. First is sadness and then anger kicks in and it can be a dangerous thing.
To answer your question eternalsunshine11, "he's but a falling leaf" alludes to how a tree though the many seasons will grow and shed leaves and he's just an insignificant part of that process. In all the she will endure and go through... he's just one single falling leaf.
LOVE this song.