This song is from Katniss' perspective. A sort of protective warning to her mother and sister about the evils lurking around and to protect themselves from it.
Mother, listen to my heart / Just as one beat ends, another starts / You can hear no matter where you are : I feel this is about how quiet and lonely District 12 is. So quiet you can hear each other's heartbeat.
Sister, hide our love away / From the evil we both know - Katniss is telling her little sister, Prim, to safeguard the love they have for each other so that it does not get affected by the 'evil (they) both know' (and, frankly, everybody in Panem knows) i.e. the Reaping, the Hunger Games, the Capitol.
It can see you through these dark days / Though they seem to darken as I go : Their love will be their main mode of survival and hope for a better future, even though the present is getting worse.
Our love will see us through these dark, dark days sister / 'Till it lights the way back home : This love they share and protect will help them and lead them to a brighter tomorrow.
It can turn the whole world upside down / Shake it 'til the sky falls to the ground : The Games created by the Capitol has such an adverse effect on the people and those who were chosen to fight (Tributes) and survived (Victors) get so shaken up from the trauma, they find it hard to get out of it ; they are scarred for life
We don't have to reap the fear they sow / Friends, as long as we hide our love away / In the good they'll never know : The goal of these Games are to create fear in people - fear of the Capitol and a fear for the lives of their children. We don't need to be afraid if we hide this love of ours from those who might take it away - hide it in our affection and care, the 'good' that those in the Capitol will never know. It is something they don't understand since they see the Hunger Games as a mode of entertainment - making children kill other children.
They rest of it is just a repetition of the first two paragraphs. This is just my interpretation, but hope it helps. I would appreciate your comments and opinions. Thanks!
This song is from Katniss' perspective. A sort of protective warning to her mother and sister about the evils lurking around and to protect themselves from it.
Mother, listen to my heart / Just as one beat ends, another starts / You can hear no matter where you are : I feel this is about how quiet and lonely District 12 is. So quiet you can hear each other's heartbeat.
Sister, hide our love away / From the evil we both know - Katniss is telling her little sister, Prim, to safeguard the love they have for each other so that it does not get affected by the 'evil (they) both know' (and, frankly, everybody in Panem knows) i.e. the Reaping, the Hunger Games, the Capitol.
It can see you through these dark days / Though they seem to darken as I go : Their love will be their main mode of survival and hope for a better future, even though the present is getting worse.
Our love will see us through these dark, dark days sister / 'Till it lights the way back home : This love they share and protect will help them and lead them to a brighter tomorrow.
It can turn the whole world upside down / Shake it 'til the sky falls to the ground : The Games created by the Capitol has such an adverse effect on the people and those who were chosen to fight (Tributes) and survived (Victors) get so shaken up from the trauma, they find it hard to get out of it ; they are scarred for life
We don't have to reap the fear they sow / Friends, as long as we hide our love away / In the good they'll never know : The goal of these Games are to create fear in people - fear of the Capitol and a fear for the lives of their children. We don't need to be afraid if we hide this love of ours from those who might take it away - hide it in our affection and care, the 'good' that those in the Capitol will never know. It is something they don't understand since they see the Hunger Games as a mode of entertainment - making children kill other children.
They rest of it is just a repetition of the first two paragraphs. This is just my interpretation, but hope it helps. I would appreciate your comments and opinions. Thanks!