| Ben Howard – Keep Your Head Up Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song has some special meaning I think. It's about finding the way of life. It's about realizing that happiness is a way of being, not doing things for being happy. For me he's telling about a period in life where he's just standing still fin a figurative sense, he's not growing as a person anymore. He's stuck in his reality of every day basics. And for one reason or another he decides to leave, he makes time for himself with no influences of his mum, dad, friends and everybody he loves. Actually the same people who keep him stuck in his sad reality. And on this journey he learns a lot about his inner-person, maybe even spiritual. He's discovering a lot things: Love, trust, maybe something he calls God. And in this journey he finds what he believes is happiness. And he realizes happiness isn't difficult to find, it's just being yourself. But that's something hard in a world where society decides partly who you are, and how you have to act. But offcourse, what happens if he gets back to 'reality'? After such a journey, you realize that 'reality' imprisons you again. And he doesn't want to be caught again in the sad society we live in these days. So he's singing: Keep your head up. In the beginning when he's back. He's still used of being himself, and so he is happy. And the friend is happy to have him back again. Everybody wants to be missed, so it feels good. The girl is important also, she was probably a part of his journey. She was the part where he found love again. Just be yourself. Doesn't matter how hard it seems to be. Because true happiness is being yourself, even if it's just for a while. |
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