Grace for Saints and Ramblers Lyrics

Lyric discussion by shortcrust 

Cover art for Grace for Saints and Ramblers lyrics by Iron & Wine

To me this is a song about the small things. The beauties and joys in life that we see or that we make for ourselves. There are no great, romantic, holy, sweeping gestures. There are no infallible miracles.

Instead, the great holiness or magic of the world is made up of the small pleasures and joys we find. There are good things and bad - this whole song is made up of contradictions - but they balance out, in that both can happen to the pious or the irreligious.

My Interpretation

Agree and it ties well with Lean into the light, the same thing about how the small things make a relationship