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All the clouds are black
Mother is cried out
Someone else broke my fall
I don't remember
Internationally bastardized
Internationally tongue-tied
The truth is I'm not sorry
It's bigger than the both of us
A pillar of salt, a box of want
You were pulled out of the embers
It was never my intention
All the clouds are black
Mother is cried out
Summertime has come and gone
All used up with wishful thinking
Get sussed out, get cynical
In this world there are no second chances
Crawling round on all fours
Curl yourself into a circle
I will tear myself apart
If you promise to paint me
As a work of art
You don't need to preach to me
I'm a believer baby
You don't need to preach to me
I'm a believer
If you want lies I can tell them
If you want lies I got 'em
All the pennies in the Thames
Will not make it how it was
Mother is cried out
Someone else broke my fall
I don't remember
Internationally bastardized
Internationally tongue-tied
The truth is I'm not sorry
It's bigger than the both of us
A pillar of salt, a box of want
You were pulled out of the embers
It was never my intention
All the clouds are black
Mother is cried out
Summertime has come and gone
All used up with wishful thinking
Get sussed out, get cynical
In this world there are no second chances
Crawling round on all fours
Curl yourself into a circle
I will tear myself apart
If you promise to paint me
As a work of art
You don't need to preach to me
I'm a believer baby
You don't need to preach to me
I'm a believer
If you want lies I can tell them
If you want lies I got 'em
All the pennies in the Thames
Will not make it how it was
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Myself I see a person looking for something better than what they have, and finding it in someone else.
"The truth is I'm not sorry
It's bigger than the both of us
A pillar of salt, a box of want
You were pulled out of the embers"
This is just what I see based on my current situation. If it doesn't work out I guess I'll see something different.
I think it's all about undesired paternity, causing the father to leave, letting the mother by herself. Basically a father talks or writes to his child telling the circumtances of his/her birth and not trying to search for excuses. You have many words leading you to childhood in the song: "Mother, bastardised, Crawling round on all fours, baby", Curl yourself into a circle: does that refers to a foetus ?
"Get sussed out, get cynical
In this world there are no second chances": May be tips to his child, telling him to grow up fast as his lone valuable advice he could give.
The only positive thing, and sense of hope, belongs to the last line though "you're my work of art".
I think it's about DEPRESSION. (to be honest, I think Kele will forever be the only one who knows what all his songs really mean)
All the clouds are black
(metaphor - his life is going through a storm)
Mother is cried out
(mothers have an infinate capacity to love their child and yet he used up all her sympathy)
Someone else broke my fall
(someone else took his mother's place and supported him so it didn't hurt as much.)
I don't remember
(doesn't remember the better days)
Internationally bastardised
(dictionary definition of bastardised is to be lowered from a higher state or condition to a lower one. By internationally I think he means in all areas of his life. so put 2 and 2 together here)
Internationally tongue-tied
(using what we already know, I think he means he can't explain himself to anyone so it all bottles up inside of him)
The truth is I'm not sorry
It's bigger than the both of us
(he's not sorry he can't explain his feelings because his problems are so big whomever wouldn't be able to help him)
A pillar of salt, a box of want
(he wants something he can't have back: his past, "happy days." pillar of salt - again, describes his wish, but when Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt it couldn't be undone. In other words saying he can never have those days back)
You were pulled out of the embers
(you (but not you) came straight out of hell to torment him)
It was never my intention
(he didn't intend for his life to go so wrong)
All the clouds are black
Mother is cried out
(the same obviously)
Summertime has come and gone
(metaphor - rather obvious)
All used up with wishful thinking
(finally has come to grips with the fact that his wish that life will be better will never come true)
Get sussed out, get cynical
(get sussed out - to grow up the hard way; get cynical - thinks everyone's out to get him)
In this world there are no second chances
(you've only got one life to live)
Crawling round on all fours
(his depression makes him feel inhumane)
Curl yourself into a circle
(curl into a ball and protect yourself from the cruel, outside world)
I will tear myself apart
If you promise to paint me
As a work of art
(he'll put all his deepest feelings on the table for you, if you promise to see him as the unique and beautiful human that we all are)
You don't need to preach to me
I'm a believer baby
You don't need to preach to me
I'm a believer
(?)
If you want lies I can tell them
If you want lies I got 'em
(typical "what's wrong" "nothing, I'm fine" lies. you know what I mean)
All the pennies in the Thames
Will not make it how it was
(no matter how much wishing you do, life won't go back in time to make you happy)
Always new depths
(he's always hitting a new low)
Intentional probably. Great song