Burial Lyrics

Lyric discussion by aaronsc 

Cover art for Burial lyrics by Miike Snow

I'm surprised how wrong you all are. Not to be offensive, sorry. "Misery is all we know lately Saturdays are all the same Sympathy is overrated Like a snapshot when you've lost the game" The relationship has failed and sympathizing with the other will not resolve conflicts so deeply rooted. No matter the level of understanding-- The differences are irreconcilable. We have lost. "Now it's all the funeral I've become a serial Killer of us both Now it's all the funeral I've become a serial Killer of us both" I have to call it here. It's done. Commence the funeral to grieve and cope what we once had because there is no further to go. "No, I Don't want to get thrown in your ocean Don't try You know that we already know it It's over" I pretty literal statement. I am not a fish in your sea. We are not only done here but there is no possibility in the future either. "At your own burial Don't forget to cry At your own burial" CRY! There is something to grieve at the loss of what we had. Cope with the loss and don't have hope of this ever returning. "Licking up my eighty-first birthday Every day this body goes to waste Remembering how I would raise an army When we went back to your place" Now I am worn... I have been wearing down for so long and my starry eyed youth will not return. Once I had the energy to fight for anything, but now I begrudgingly accept that there's nothing left to that man.

My Interpretation

a pretty literal left to that man I once was.

@aaronsc cool, sounds spot on to me... i'm kinda wondering about the "snapshot when you've lost the game"...i am not thinking it has any significant meaning to the OVERALL meaning of the song...so it's kinda irrelevant but i'm curious, it mean? ok, a snapshot, that'd be a photo, is overrated when you've lost the game, so like you don't want a picture of a moment in a game you lost? That seems to be the only meaning, interesting that for his comparison of how overrated sympathy between them was, he chose something so arbitrary...bcse personally i wouldn't mind a snapshot of a...

since we're being sticklers on our sentences: *any significant affect on the OVERALL meaning of the song