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Where O where have you been my love?
Where O where can you be?
It's been so long, since the moon has gone.
0 what a wreck you've 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, it's your eyes i can see
I plead, i pray through each night & day
Our Embrace is only a dream.
As sure as days come from moments
Each hour becomes a life's time
When she'd left, I'd only begun this lullaby
Where O where can you be?
It's been so long, since the moon has gone.
0 what a wreck you've 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, it's your eyes i can see
I plead, i pray through each night & day
Our Embrace is only a dream.
As sure as days come from moments
Each hour becomes a life's time
When she'd left, I'd only begun this lullaby
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lolwutpear
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.
I love this album... it starts of pretty conventional and just gets more and more creepy throughout. Awesome, freaky stuff.
"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.
"My hope is on the horizon...." I always took to mean that he is scanning the horizon, waiting for her to come back.
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!!