Never mind, I found something... First of all I must say these lyrics are wrong. I submitted the lyrics I thought were the correct one! And now for the meaning, Agnes Obel had had an interview with Best Fit, and about The Curse they have said:
Best Fit: This is one of the more story-led tracks on the album…
Agnes Obel: I think it was a song that asked for the story. I felt like there was a story there as soon as I started writing it. The first thing that came out was “And the people…”, [This is why these lyrics are not correct] it just sort of came out. And I just knew that it was something that was outside of me. I was reading two books at the time and maybe that had something to do with it. One of them was a book about how we think and how we construct meaning and memory and the author has a great way of describing how we construct our own stories. We apply so much symbolic meaning to things. Humans do that all the time, it’s like the curse of being a human but also a blessing because a lot of beautiful things come out of it. We put meaning into random things. [She calls this process 'The Curse'] The other book was a diary and the author was standing between the old world and the new world and he was rationalising the meaning of the new world and longing for the meaning of the old world. But with the curse of modern life. So it was just what I had in my mind at the time.
So, I think that makes sense. I really adore the composition of the instruments in this song: You can hear cello, blended perfectly into piano. Magical.
Never mind, I found something... First of all I must say these lyrics are wrong. I submitted the lyrics I thought were the correct one! And now for the meaning, Agnes Obel had had an interview with Best Fit, and about The Curse they have said:
Best Fit: This is one of the more story-led tracks on the album…
Agnes Obel: I think it was a song that asked for the story. I felt like there was a story there as soon as I started writing it. The first thing that came out was “And the people…”, [This is why these lyrics are not correct] it just sort of came out. And I just knew that it was something that was outside of me. I was reading two books at the time and maybe that had something to do with it. One of them was a book about how we think and how we construct meaning and memory and the author has a great way of describing how we construct our own stories. We apply so much symbolic meaning to things. Humans do that all the time, it’s like the curse of being a human but also a blessing because a lot of beautiful things come out of it. We put meaning into random things. [She calls this process 'The Curse'] The other book was a diary and the author was standing between the old world and the new world and he was rationalising the meaning of the new world and longing for the meaning of the old world. But with the curse of modern life. So it was just what I had in my mind at the time.
So, I think that makes sense. I really adore the composition of the instruments in this song: You can hear cello, blended perfectly into piano. Magical.
@Rmeena Thanks! This really helped!
@Rmeena Thanks! This really helped!