GOT IT.
This song is about a man looking on at his own funeral
Don't play pop music/You know I hate pop music/Just sing amazing godless grace
Basically saying not to play pop music at his funeral
Don't wear bright colours/You know I hate bright colours/I never liked you for the way you dressed/Anyway
Telling them, basically, to wear black to his funeral
Goodbye lovers and friends/So sad to leave you/When they lie and say/'This is not the end'/you can laugh as if/we're still together/you can laugh about it all
The chorus is just him saying goodbye to his loved ones
I hope you didn't bring flowers/Hope you didn't write a poem/Hope you remember every fight/I know I could be noxious/Or occasionally cruel/But only to the ones/I loved
Telling them not to bring flowers or sappy poems to his funeral, almost admitting to being an awful person in life, but trying to explain that he only acted rudely to the ones he loved, the ones he's saying goodbye to, the ones at his funeral
Don't get inventory/Don't fake your memory/Don't give me virtues that I never had/Don't get sychophantal/We never were sentimental/I know I took more than I ever gave
He's, again, admitting that he was a bad person, reminding the people at his funeral not to dress up the fact that he was an awful person, just saying "remember me for the man I was, not who you wanted me to be."
I don't need to be forgiven/But a moment from the living/That's the only thing I ask
Obviously, he's again saying that he doesn't really care that he was that bad, he just wanted to be remembered by the living.
Goodbye lovers and friends/So sad to leave you/When they lie and say/'This is not the end'/you can laugh as if/we're still together/but this really is the end/
Again, saying goodbye for the last time, the VERY last time, he says, because this really is the end.
YES. The Pitchfork review of this album glosses over this song as a "breakup song" and that enraged me because it's clear there's so much going on here.
YES. The Pitchfork review of this album glosses over this song as a "breakup song" and that enraged me because it's clear there's so much going on here.
"Just sing Amazing godless Grace" = that song isn't as 'preachy' a hymn as others
"Just sing Amazing godless Grace" = that song isn't as 'preachy' a hymn as others
"When they lie and say this is not the end" = a priest will likely be saying that the life of the narrator isn't really over, that he's gone to a better place / Heaven, which the narrator says isn't true, and in fact, at the end, he's saying "nope, that's all there is"....
"When they lie and say this is not the end" = a priest will likely be saying that the life of the narrator isn't really over, that he's gone to a better place / Heaven, which the narrator says isn't true, and in fact, at the end, he's saying "nope, that's all there is".
GOT IT. This song is about a man looking on at his own funeral
Don't play pop music/You know I hate pop music/Just sing amazing godless grace Basically saying not to play pop music at his funeral
Don't wear bright colours/You know I hate bright colours/I never liked you for the way you dressed/Anyway Telling them, basically, to wear black to his funeral
Goodbye lovers and friends/So sad to leave you/When they lie and say/'This is not the end'/you can laugh as if/we're still together/you can laugh about it all The chorus is just him saying goodbye to his loved ones
I hope you didn't bring flowers/Hope you didn't write a poem/Hope you remember every fight/I know I could be noxious/Or occasionally cruel/But only to the ones/I loved Telling them not to bring flowers or sappy poems to his funeral, almost admitting to being an awful person in life, but trying to explain that he only acted rudely to the ones he loved, the ones he's saying goodbye to, the ones at his funeral
Don't get inventory/Don't fake your memory/Don't give me virtues that I never had/Don't get sychophantal/We never were sentimental/I know I took more than I ever gave He's, again, admitting that he was a bad person, reminding the people at his funeral not to dress up the fact that he was an awful person, just saying "remember me for the man I was, not who you wanted me to be."
I don't need to be forgiven/But a moment from the living/That's the only thing I ask Obviously, he's again saying that he doesn't really care that he was that bad, he just wanted to be remembered by the living.
Goodbye lovers and friends/So sad to leave you/When they lie and say/'This is not the end'/you can laugh as if/we're still together/but this really is the end/ Again, saying goodbye for the last time, the VERY last time, he says, because this really is the end.
YES. The Pitchfork review of this album glosses over this song as a "breakup song" and that enraged me because it's clear there's so much going on here.
YES. The Pitchfork review of this album glosses over this song as a "breakup song" and that enraged me because it's clear there's so much going on here.
"Just sing Amazing godless Grace" = that song isn't as 'preachy' a hymn as others
"Just sing Amazing godless Grace" = that song isn't as 'preachy' a hymn as others
"When they lie and say this is not the end" = a priest will likely be saying that the life of the narrator isn't really over, that he's gone to a better place / Heaven, which the narrator says isn't true, and in fact, at the end, he's saying "nope, that's all there is"....
"When they lie and say this is not the end" = a priest will likely be saying that the life of the narrator isn't really over, that he's gone to a better place / Heaven, which the narrator says isn't true, and in fact, at the end, he's saying "nope, that's all there is".