Lyrics for Lighthouse as interpreted by kasandra

Lighthouse Lyrics
Take what you need while there's time
The city will be earth in a short while
If I'm not mistaken, it's been in flames
You and I will escape to the seaside

There is a storm in the distance
The wind breathing warning of its imminence
There is a lighthouse, five hundred yards down
You and I will be safe there

There is a girl who haunts that lighthouse
She saved me, I was swimming
So young I almost drowned
Under the water, she sang a story
Of losing her lover, she calls a warning

Love, you are foolish, you're tired
Your sleeplessness makes you a liar
The city is burning
The ocean is turning
Our only chance is the lighthouse

Her lover was a sailor
She went and she waited there
The door locked from the outside
Lover never arrived so she sings there
Soft as a siren, luring the ships off their course
How alarming

We went in, we climbed up and looked out
The door locked from the outside
Three ghosts in a lighthouse

Interaction
Mail to a friend Send Lyrics to a Friend
Share on Facebook

Stumble It
Add to Del.icio.us Add to Del.icio.us




  • 41 Comments
  • Printer Friendly Lyrics
oldest first     Expand All
Relient_Girl
06-06-2006

Rated 0 
This is a beautiful song. I somehow downloaded this yesterday and this song is definatly the new "Echo". great vocals, great music, just what i would expect from them. This cd is every bit as good as their first.

Log in to reply
regretandramen
06-19-2006

Rated 0 
The Man wakes up to find he was brought to safety by The Woman. She explains the situation, and decides they should travel to a Lighthouse not too far out of town.

The Woman explains she was saved at the Lighthouse as a child by a ghost who haunts it, a strange Sailor's Widow. The Widow's lover never came back from sea, so she remains there forever, singing to nearby passing ships to lure her love back home.

The Man and Woman get their safely, but upon entrance meet three ghosts.

Log in to reply
1 Reply
luaa
06-23-2006

Rated 0 
this song is so beautiful. to me, I think about the things love makes me feel. the low points of love.

Log in to reply
sky_liner
06-24-2006

Rated 0 
I think that the three ghosts are The Man, The Woman, and The Ghost Girl, because "The door locked from the outside", so they're trapped in there.

Log in to reply
zeroangel
07-09-2006

Rated 0 
I agree with sky liner.

Log in to reply
BookwormAir13
07-16-2006

Rated 0 
I think this song is about how it feels to not know where to turn for support. It's almost as if the person is walking from one disaster, in search of shelter and comfort, only to find nothing, but knowing that there has to be something out there. I love this song. It's beautiful.

Log in to reply
zakaie
07-20-2006

Rated 0 
I think to correctly analyze this song, we have to figure out who is speaking. There is obviously two people in this story, as "you and I" have to escape to the lighthouse to safety. However, whether this is a monologue or a dialogue makes a huge difference and what it means to have 'love' and/or to be 'lovers'.

I think the major hint that this could be a dialogue between two characters is the way that each verse is sung.

For example, the first two verses/stanzas sounds like a rational voice asking to escape, but the words are sung very sweetly or very comforting. As if trying to be calm and trying to figure out how to escape safely. They are running to escape a burning city by running to the seaside; however, they reach the sea and it is brewing with a storm. The speaker realizes his/her idea to escape to the sea has been foiled... they must use the lighthouse to survive!

The third verse/stanza changes the entire tone of the story... as it becomes very haunting. When I heard it the first time, it felt as if someone else was speaking: exclaiming words of warning about the ghost in the lighthouse that saved the speaker from drowning. At this point, it feels like someone is interrupting the calm... someone filled with fear. I couldn't believe it would've been the same speaker... even if it was the same singer.

The sweet, comforting voice returns in the fourth verse/stanza, and reaffirms the decision to go to the lighthouse since the other speaker is "a liar" due to her "sleeplessness"--that the other speaker is "foolish" due to her "tired[-ness]". The "city is burning / the ocean is turning" there is no other choice and they must escape--they have to live. It is a rational thought, but is it right?

The haunting voice continues in the fifth stanza, retelling the warning that the ghost gave... noting that the lighthouse door locks from outside. The ghost's lover "never arrived" or returned and she stayed there waiting forever, luring others "off course."

Of course, they went up the light house anyway... and the door locked from the outside. The story that evolved from the "tired" and "foolish" state of the second speaker had turned out to be true... and the "you and I' in the story have become two of the "three ghosts in a lighthouse."

I feel as an aspect of this story surrounds how rational thought fails when we considered the advice of a loved one. Though we kinda subsume that the 'You and I' are lovers... the only mention or hint of this is the word "Love" which could be for a lover, a son/daughter, a relative, a friend, or any given loved one. The story of the girl and her sailor lover seems coincidental in a way, but it is still one of the bonds in this story that cannot be ruled out (a lover is still a loved one, right?). I do agree with BookwormAir that this could be about looking for comfort and shelther but finding nothing, but I think it goes many times deeper about looking for support and comfort... but guidance and hope. We should not look for rational answers that we can accept, but need listen to the wisdoms of experience... especially from those we love... because they wouldn't use their wisdoms to cause us harm intentionally if they really loved us in return.

I guess this became a bit more faith based analysis... even though the world is crumbling around them. However, I guess that is what I see. Anyone else have any ideas or comments?

Log in to reply
zakaie
07-20-2006

Rated 0 
Addition to the comment I just made: I also feel as if the person that needs to learn the song's lesson is the first protagonist that starts with the rational idea to escape. It is this first speaker that the audience (us) listens to and also who we can more easily relate (unless you have seen a ghost or know a ghost story or whatnot). So therefore, we could be considered parallels to the main protagonist of this story and thus who should be heeding the warning... since we are listening to some ghosts. Right?

Log in to reply
carmonium
08-07-2006

Rated 0 
The hush sound sings a lot about lighthouses and the sea and pretty much just nature in general in a lot of their songs. But lighthouses is like a constant thing with them

Log in to reply
BrokenPiano
08-12-2006

Rated 0 
Wow, this song is just...amazing!
The lyrics, the tune, the singing, its all perfect. I cannot imagine this song being made any better!
And the ending was done beautifully!

Log in to reply
joshua_aus
08-20-2006

Rated 0 
The story behind Lighthouse

http://youtube.com/watch?v=STBjhHkq0Dc

Log in to reply
Dagger Trepe
11-04-2006

Rated 0 
Her lover was a sailor
She went and she waited there
The door locked from the outside
Lover never arrived so she sings there
Soft as a siren, luring the ships off their course
How alarming

That verse touches me. I don't know why...

Log in to reply
elizabell887
01-16-2007

Rated 0 
i also think they sing alot about lighthouses because they represent a safe haven.

but this song is gorgeous,

i think its pretty self explanatory but its about a girl and the guy.. they are gonna go away together to this lighthouse to find safety from the problems of the world and she tells this story about when she was a little girl and how a ghost saved her at the lighthouse. and the song switches between the story of the ghost that saved her and the story of what happens to her and her boyfriend

Log in to reply
CAHHROL
01-18-2007

Rated 0 
Wow. Breathtaking.

Log in to reply
chloeheartsdisco
03-29-2007

Rated 0 
this song makes me think of the book 'how i live now' by meg rosoff. there's kind of this feeling that all is lost, but there is still hope. i'm not sure why. greta's vocals are gorgeous :]

Log in to reply
jfkldsioe8i
04-24-2007

Rated 0 
chloeheartsdisco, i kind of understand how you get that... a little, haha. this song reminds me of The Siren Song from the Odyssey. Kind of an unfortunate book to compare such a good song to though.

Log in to reply
themiracleofsean
04-30-2007

Rated 0 
It is a really beautiful song. It sorta remindes me of like the past like when the sea was the only way to travel across continents if you at all understand what i mean I'm not sure why that is but it does infact the whole album does.

Log in to reply
drmn
06-13-2007

Rated 0 
Greta said it's a dialogue, zakaie got it right. This is such an elegant story...

All of The Hush Sound's lyrics are incredible, some of the best ever. They're so young and talented, they deserve much more recognition.

Log in to reply
AshedEyes
07-02-2007

Rated 0 
Wtf, that video doesn't explain the meaning of the lyrics much at all.
W/e, I think zakaie did a pretty good job. Although when you watch the video explanation of the song it makes it seem like there's not a lot of depth to the lyrics which could make some people's explanations just over-analizations. Eh w/e cool song.

Log in to reply
AshedEyes
07-02-2007

Rated 0 
Wtf, that video doesn't explain the meaning of the lyrics much at all.
W/e, I think zakaie did a pretty good job. Although when you watch the video explanation of the song it makes it seem like there's not a lot of depth to the lyrics which could make some people's explanations just over-analizations. Eh w/e cool song.

Log in to reply
sneef2010
08-08-2007

Rated 0 
ok to shorten it:

the narrator and one other person go to a lighthouse for safety

the lighthouse keeper is some lady who is sad about her lost lover so she lures in the ships to crash on the shores

when the first two people get to the lighthouse the door locks from the outside and all 3 of the people die.

Log in to reply
sneef2010
08-08-2007

Rated 0 
ok to shorten it:

the narrator and one other person go to a lighthouse for safety

the lighthouse keeper is some lady who is sad about her lost lover so she lures in the ships to crash on the shores

when the first two people get to the lighthouse the door locks from the outside and all 3 of the people die.

Log in to reply
04marsar
08-27-2007

Rated +1 
When it says 'the door locked from the outside' I get the impression that her lover locked her in there. So she takes her revenge on the sailors by luring ships of their course. Too depressing?

Log in to reply
sarachristine
10-05-2007

Rated 0 
this song to me is the warning to stay away from love. the girl is at the lighthouse warning you of the way love destroys hearts and hope with the loss of it. when the girl pulled the singer out of the "water" it is the love she was and doing so while she was young she naive to the devastation she was swimming towards.
the ghosts lover is a sailor who left her, never to come back. maybe he did not really ljust go sailing, he may just promised to come back, but they were not together, but he never came back, breaking her heart. she now sings to get people off the course of happiness because she is more bitter, or afraid. she has locked the door because she is also too afraid to go out and love again.

Log in to reply
ram
10-27-2007

Rated 0 
whoever said the boy and girl walked into the lighthouse and saw three ghost is a complete idiot.

The song is basically a waltz with lyrics placed on top that describe a ghost story. In the story, we can assume that there is some sort of state of danger, possibly the city is burning down. The girl persuades the boy to come with her to the lighthouse for safety. She knows of the lighthouse becuase, when she was young, she was saved from drowning by a ghost. The ghost was a women who was in love with a sailor and she waited for him at the lighthouse to come back. However, the lighthouse locked from the outside (locking her inside) and she was unable to escape.So the women was stuck there for eternity, singing songs.

So the boy and girl run off to the lighthouse for safety; however, when they enter the lighthouse, the door locks from the outside. They are trapped for eternity in the lighthouse with the ghost; therefore, this creates three ghost: The women in love with the sailor, the boy, and the girl.

I guess you could interpret the song as the ghost growing lonesome, so she tricks the boy and girl into being trapped into the lighthouse with her.

Log in to reply




  • Add Your Comments
What does this song mean to you?

You must be logged in to post your comments.

Feel free to create an account with us, or log in with your existing account, to start adding your comments to songs.





Popular
Top:   Lyrics, Artists, Albums
Random:   Lyric, Artist, Album

Your Ad Here