Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Into the valley
Betrothed and divine
Realisations no virtue
But who can define
Why soldiers go marching
Those masses a line
This disease is catching
From victory to stone
Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, sea and sky
Ahoy! Ahoy! Boy, man and soldier
Ahoy! Ahoy! Deceived and then punctured
Ahoy! Ahoy! Long may they die
Out of concealment
Blank and stark eyed
Why so uncertain
This culture deceives
Prophesised, brainwashed
Tomorrow's demise
All systems failing
The placards unroll
Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, sea and sky
Ahoy! Ahoy! Boy, man and soldier
Ahoy! Ahoy! Deceived and then punctured
Ahoy! Ahoy! Long may they die
Time for the audit
The gathering trial
A collector's dilemma
Repositioned and filed
Betrothed and divine
Realisations no virtue
But who can define
Why soldiers go marching
Those masses a line
This disease is catching
From victory to stone
Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, sea and sky
Ahoy! Ahoy! Boy, man and soldier
Ahoy! Ahoy! Deceived and then punctured
Ahoy! Ahoy! Long may they die
Out of concealment
Blank and stark eyed
Why so uncertain
This culture deceives
Prophesised, brainwashed
Tomorrow's demise
All systems failing
The placards unroll
Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, sea and sky
Ahoy! Ahoy! Boy, man and soldier
Ahoy! Ahoy! Deceived and then punctured
Ahoy! Ahoy! Long may they die
Time for the audit
The gathering trial
A collector's dilemma
Repositioned and filed
Lyrics submitted by U2takemehigher
Into the Valley Lyrics as written by Stuart Adamson Richard Jobson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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Funny, but true. He has awful diction.
I was curious as I loved this song as a boy .... so I googled and found this information ...... The lyrics for this song are famously inscrutable, due to singer Richard Jobson's diction and accent. The chorus line of "Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, sea, and sky!" in particular often confuses people - a fate that often befalls The Cult's "She Sells Sanctuary" as well. Jobson noted that the lyrics were written about Scottish youths being recruited into the army, with a personal touch after a friend was killed on duty in Northern Ireland. Local legend alludes that the "valley" referenced in the song's title is a nod to High Valleyfield, known to locals as "The Valley," which is a village near The Skids' hometown of Dunfermline known for tribal/gang warfare with other local villages. This has become a popular football anthem, particularly for football clubs with references to valleys. For example, both Charlton Athletic FC and Bradford City AFC have used it as club anthems, owing to their stadium names: The Valley and Valley Parade, respectively. Dunfermline Athletic FC continue to use it in tribute to the band being from Dunfermline, as do Redditch United FC, who play at Valley Stadium. This is perhaps the band's most well-known song, outside of "The Saints Are Coming," due to both its strong chart position upon release and for its use in several marketing campaigns - Maxwell audio cassettes and the hardware retailer Halfords both have used it for advertising campaigns. The song started off as a poem written by Richard Jobson in his mid-teens. He condensed his intense world view into a collection of rhymes inspired by death, Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and the brutal experiences of friends who had served in Northern Ireland.
"Tennyson's poem had all the things you love as a young guy -heroism and tragedy and loss," Jobson told Uncut. "They were the very same qualities I tried to imbue in what was to become 'Into The Valley.'" The song title was inspired by a line from "The Charge of the Light Brigade - "into the valley of death rode the six hundred." Jobson recalled:
"I'd been working on it as a poem for a long time, since I was 15 or 16. A lot of my older friends from where I came from in Scotland couldn't get jobs, and the last thing open to them was the British Army. They were pretty much sent straight to Northern Ireland for training. And it changed them a lot, in quite a negative way." The song was originally titled "Depersonalized." Jobson explained that he had in mind, "the idea that you could be stripped of your identity and personality, and thrust into the ferocity of a situation very naively."
"A lot of the guys I knew who went to Northern Ireland had become prejudiced when they came back," Jobson continued. "They spoke about Catholics or Irish Nationalists in a very negative way, and always used that precursor, 'I know you're not like that, but...' It definitely had a curious effect on them as people, and psychologically scarred them. So that had a deep influence on the song."
true, this song would have no meaning if i couldn't read the lyrica anywhere =]
I can't remember where I read this, but I'm sure I've read somewhere this song is a statement about the numbers of Scottish teens joining the British Army.
The maxell advert using this song was fun. Available on youtube. Just search "Into the valley maxell ad".
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