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I woke the dawn
Saw horses growing out the lawn
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
I glimpsed a bat with butterfly wings
Oh what marvelous things
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Dark nights hold tight and sleep tight my baby
Morning light shall burst bright and keep us here safely
I followed a rabbit through rows of mermaids entwined shrubbery
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh what marvelous things
But they are they are they are giving me the creeps
Dark nights hold tight and sleep tight my baby
Morning light shall burst bright and keep us here safely
Oh lying in the sun
Everyday feeling all of the magic and might find the wonder
Dark nights hold tight and sleep tight my baby
Morning light shall burst bright and keep us here safely
Morning light shall burst bright and keep us here safely
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Saw horses growing out the lawn
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
I glimpsed a bat with butterfly wings
Oh what marvelous things
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Dark nights hold tight and sleep tight my baby
Morning light shall burst bright and keep us here safely
I followed a rabbit through rows of mermaids entwined shrubbery
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh what marvelous things
But they are they are they are giving me the creeps
Dark nights hold tight and sleep tight my baby
Morning light shall burst bright and keep us here safely
Oh lying in the sun
Everyday feeling all of the magic and might find the wonder
Dark nights hold tight and sleep tight my baby
Morning light shall burst bright and keep us here safely
Morning light shall burst bright and keep us here safely
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Lyrics submitted by ThreeMilesDown
Track duration: 03:32
"Marvelous Things" as written by Chauntelle/dupree Dupree
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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its totally saying "i followed a rabbit through rows of mermaid entwined shruberry"
who followed a rabbit?
Alice did, Alice in Wonderland.
derrrrr. think about it.
To me, this song's theme is pretty clear: the preservation of innocence in the face of inevitable hardship. With a lot of Eisley songs the lyrics can never be taken literally. Some people have said that the chorus evokes images of someone trying to coax a child to sleep and that the sunlight will awaken him/her, but I imagine something more along the lines of the protagonist saying "even though darkness will come, you and I will stick together until the morning and then the new day will be all the more wondrous." I see the song's protagonist/s trying to shut out all of the bad things in life and create their own world where there are still such things as magic and wonder. Finally, even though this wonder can some times give them the "creeps", it's still an amazing thing to be able to find wonder in the world and not let the darkness drag them down.
They're stuck in their childlike mentality but know enough to find everything magical a little creepy. Beautiful, but dark. Eerie. They're realizing that even magic can be grim and are scared? I feel like they're constantly going from child to adult, child to adult, shifting. They let themselves be children and then remind themselves how weird dreamlike things actually are.
"Dark nights hold tight and sleep tight my baby" - Hold tight makes me feel like this person is afraid of the night and another person is trying to coax him/her into sleep. I also think these might be words of comfort, maybe a lullaby someone sang to them to free them of bedtime, nightmarish worries. I can imagine them chanting these words when they're scared, or trying to make themselves wake up when they begin to see the strangeness of all that's surrounding them.
"morning light shall burst bright and keep us here safely" - I still feel like this is part of a lullaby. Sleep now and tomorrow it will go away. Monsters, ghosts, ghouls can't survive in the light. The imagery of this makes me crazy - I can just see children restlessly sleeping until the sun seeps into the windows, blinding, and washes them with a sense of relief and warmth. I feel like while they're experiencing these creepy, marvelous things a part of them is terrified and waiting for the light to come and wash everything away.
And this entire song is possibly a dream in itself - it seems very strobe-like and disjointed. Confusing, like a dream or nightmare. Needless to say this song gives me the chills. I feel like, while she was dreaming she was excited at first to find magic but as she went further into her alice-and-wonderland adventure everything started twisting and becoming strange and all she wanted to do was wake up.
"oh lying in the sun
everyday feeling all of the magic and might find the wonder" - After she's woken up, lying in the sun and knowing now that everyday magic and wonder is probably just as enticing as what she'd just dreamed. I don't think she yearns for magic anymore but can now appreciate real-life beauty.
Sorry, I know I go off on tangents but I can't help it. That's just what I see when I hear this song.