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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
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
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Lighthouse is beautiful because it is a love ballad that is both lovely and haunting. It's just a quirky little romantic story (also quite creepy) that can mean whatever you want it to mean.
i don't know maybe I don't like reading too much into songs, it gets to complicated :P
The first person tells the second person how silly this is, and that they are just tired and are making things up. From the 'love' bit, I am assuming they are lovers. The second speaker tells the first speaker of the end of the ghosts life, and how she was locked inside the lighthouse.
Presumably, the first speaker doesn't listen, they go to the lighthouse and meet the same fate as the ghost, leaving three ghosts in the lighthouse.
To me, this song speaks of how you should always trust the words of those close to you or face the consequences.
Soft as a siren, luring the ships off their course"
I think "siren" should be capitalized. The Sirens were mythical creatures that sang a song to lure sailors into the deptsh of the ocean until they drowned. The song was usually said to be soft a beautiful (coincidentally like this one), but sometimes said to be unkown since the people that heard it died.
The first and second stanzas suggest an apocolypse of some sort and that her lover and her must escape to the ligh house
Now the next part is a different story of a sailors widow who haunts the lighthouse waiting for him to return.
The narrator tells us that the ghost saved her as a child, possibly by luring with her, with her siren
Now as the couple reaches the lighthouse and enter, the door locks them in, they die, and become the other 2 ghosts