Lyrics for This Lullaby as interpreted by ReActor

This Lullaby Lyrics
Where, where have you been my love?
Where, oh where can you be?
It's been so long since the moon has gone
And oh, what a wreck you made me.

Are you there over the ocean?
Are you there up in the sky?
Until the return of my love,
This lullaby.

My hope is on the horizon
Every face your eyes I can see
I plead and pray, though each night and day
Our embrace is only a dream.

And sure as days come from moments
Each hour becomes a life's time
When she left, I'd only begun
This lullaby.

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joshy
06-23-2005

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omg this song has been out for ages, and no one has noticed. this lullaby song is the best on the cd, wonderful song, and has been on here for ages.
i think it is about someones love has left them. and (im guessing its in a guys point of view) his singing it like she is lost, and that he can't find her. that his a wreck since shes been gone, she made him one by leaving. the third verse stumps me.
'My hope is on the horizon
Every face your eyes I can see
I plead and prey, though each night and day
Our embrace is only a dream.'
i think it might be that only in his dreams are they together.

i don't know, im just starting everyone off to write about this wonderfull song!

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hardcor_toonz
07-19-2005

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Well Joshy, I think the 3rd verse goes something like this...
"my hope is on the horizon" ...his hope is fading like the sun going down on the horizon
"Every face your eyes I can see"... he sees her in everyone he looks at.
"I plead and prey, through each night and day" but alas, " Our embrace is only a dream".

He is really pining for this woman but all he has left is "This lullaby "

I think it is quite sad actually

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joshy
07-26-2005

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thanks i see it now

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Black_Stripe_Red
08-10-2005

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This sounds like something of Lenard Cohen's

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Red_Left_Hand
12-27-2005

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Personally reminded me of Tom Waits.

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N0 C0DE 79
02-15-2006

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But it's pure Mark Lanegan,...

With Josh Homme Playing the guitar..

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Aug
02-16-2006

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This is a great song, it really sets a tone for the rest of the album. And if my thinking is right here, I would say that the whole album is in the view point of some guy and about what some girl has done to him. How does that sound?

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thomsmells
04-09-2006

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What a simple, yet beautiful song. As for the rest of the album, it's pretty disturbing.

Or at least I thought so

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the-fool
04-23-2006

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my theory:
They "made love" she went away, promising to come back, or somthing equally as stupid. Or she may have died "Are you there up in the sky?
Until the return of my love,
This lullaby."
And he waits for her, and can't stop thinking about her etc "And sure as days come from moments
Each hour becomes a life's time" he wastes his life away thinking/waiting for her. And then dies.

Yeah... Thats pretty much my theory.

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Riis
05-31-2006

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I love this song. It's the first song I taught myself on guitar.

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twiggy moe
07-25-2007

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hm... good idea! i think he doesn´t know where she is, so he doesn´t know if she´s dead or alive. but he loves her so much that he can´t imagine life without her and so he´s waiting for her all the time.
well i like the idea of aug that the whole album is about a boy/man thinking about a girl and what she´d done to him. but i think it´s also about fairytales (josh homme loves the brothers grimm), e.g. burn the witch or someone´s in the wolf. watch the videos!!

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RebelMC7
09-14-2007

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I think this is about sexual obsession.

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metlab
12-05-2007

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I like to think this is a song Josh wrote for Brody, and that maybe he asked Mark Lanegan to sing it on the album so it wouldn't be in-your-face obvious.

"My hope is on the horizon...." I always took to mean that he is scanning the horizon, waiting for her to come back.

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MaddAddams
04-09-2008

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Everyone's missing the last line in this song:
"When you left I'd only begun this lullaby"

In other words, she's been gone from his life (on account of a voyage, death, break-up, it's a bit ambiguous in that regard) for mere minutes, and already he's looking at faces, searching for her again. The build up of the song is supposed to make you think she's been gone for quite some time, but the line at the end twists it, revealing the listener's assumptions aren't correct.

The lines about the ocean and horizon make me think this song is possibly from the POV of a sailor, leaving his woman behind at home - which could be analogous to the life of a touring musician.

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prisoneroftoday
10-22-2008

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I love this song, its so beautiful but depressing at the same time. I think it is just talking about losing his lover, as the people above have already mentioned, but that even though there is no hope of them ever coming back, they don't stop writing the song "when you left I'd only begun", they don't stop searching, and they don't stop loving. Even though the person is gone forever for whatever reason, their love sort of won't die along with it. I think its one of their best songs meaning wise, but its ambiguous enough to be usable for many situations or feelings. There are many different kinds of love.

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itsnen
04-01-2009

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Maybe it's like an introduction/explanation of the album... the album is lullabies to paralyze, and he says he's left with just this lullaby. But all the lullabies on the album are obviously pretty messed up, cos they're paralyzing and scary. So... this woman left her with bad lullabies.. bad memories, dreams, stories etc... and now he's just generally messed up in the head because of her.
I love this album... it starts of pretty conventional and just gets more and more creepy throughout. Awesome, freaky stuff.

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HardcoreSniper
11-22-2009

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The hope is on the horizon and Every face your eyes I can see lines are basically him saying his hope is coming up.

Instead of setting, the sun is rising and he feels that his love is nearby which is why he sees his love's eyes in every face. Expecting her to show up in one of the faces but it's just his imagination.

Also, I feel like A Long Slow Goodbye is a great ending and this is a great opening to the album. Long Slow Goodbye sounds like Homme's version of This Lullaby. Similar lyrics, different music.

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