The Mountain Goats – I Corinthians 13:8-10

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we heard the rats in the rafters scurry by
and we wondered about the color of the sky outside
in warsaw in 1939
it was alright just to be alive
it was good that you were mine
and you held your hands up
to form a heart in the air
you held you hands up with your thumbs touching
they formed a heart in the air

through the peice missing in the brick wall
we had an excellent view of the soldiers coming down the wall
and you held your hands up where i could see them
in the dark and they formed a heart in the air
you held you hands up
and they formed a heart in the air

i heard the old songs radiating from you
i heard the old songs radiating from you

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    General Comment:I haven't heard this song yet......but thanks to the intepertation of Saxifrage, I am going to find it right away.
    I can almost imagine how fantstic this song is going to be.
    Flag Jenna_Bennaon July 03, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:The war will soon destroy everything they know. But love never ends.
    Flag whatchamacallmeon February 21, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Two people hiding from the nazis in Warsaw. The nazis know that someone is hiding where they are, so one sacrifices themselves for the other. As they walk out they send a hidden signal to the other by making as a heart to them (come out with your hands up).
    Flag saxifrageon November 30, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:true love just when love seems impossible
    Flag shewouldnton October 25, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

    9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

    10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
    Flag death_list5on August 12, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:The title of this song really says alot about it...the verse it's refering to begins, "Love never fails."
    In a lot of his songs, he calls love nothing but false. But it makes me think, maybe the only love he doesn't like, is the love he's always had. Maybe he's trying to say that love may be the one thing that can last forever, but none of us can have it.
    Maybe he's just contridicting himself to make us think about what love really is.
    Flag HarvestGloomon November 24, 2004   Link
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