I absolutely love this song! Roddy Woomble is one of my favourite music artists :)
Anyway, I think this song is about someone trying to move on into the future, but at the same time realising how much he has left behind. Perhaps when he was younger, he got his priorities all mixed up and lost sight of what was most important. So now, when he longs for what seem the simpler things of life perhaps, he finds they are all long gone. "What will you save when everything is broken now?" The future is meaningless for him, as his past is now empty. There's nothing to save - he forgot about the most important things in life and perhaps pursued things with only transient benefits. "You realised I meant to be unhappy" - a person in his life realised that he was set on his goals and what he wanted, even if it meant leaving so much else behind. He wants to "reunite" - but the possibility of that is long gone. Everything, all fragments of his past life have "gone running without a sound". He tried to return to the place of his past, expecting everything to be the same - only to find, perhaps, that everything had changed beyond recognition and there is nothing left for him there. Perhaps that is when he realises just how much he has lost.
The title of this song is especially intriguing - Quiet Crown. A crown symbolises power - so he has gained some kind of power but not the kind of power he would wish to have? Or has he had this "quiet crown" all along, throughout his life, and only now realises the strength he had all along? This I'm really not sure about.
I absolutely love this song! Roddy Woomble is one of my favourite music artists :) Anyway, I think this song is about someone trying to move on into the future, but at the same time realising how much he has left behind. Perhaps when he was younger, he got his priorities all mixed up and lost sight of what was most important. So now, when he longs for what seem the simpler things of life perhaps, he finds they are all long gone. "What will you save when everything is broken now?" The future is meaningless for him, as his past is now empty. There's nothing to save - he forgot about the most important things in life and perhaps pursued things with only transient benefits. "You realised I meant to be unhappy" - a person in his life realised that he was set on his goals and what he wanted, even if it meant leaving so much else behind. He wants to "reunite" - but the possibility of that is long gone. Everything, all fragments of his past life have "gone running without a sound". He tried to return to the place of his past, expecting everything to be the same - only to find, perhaps, that everything had changed beyond recognition and there is nothing left for him there. Perhaps that is when he realises just how much he has lost. The title of this song is especially intriguing - Quiet Crown. A crown symbolises power - so he has gained some kind of power but not the kind of power he would wish to have? Or has he had this "quiet crown" all along, throughout his life, and only now realises the strength he had all along? This I'm really not sure about.