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I was born when they took my name
When the world turned wicked, when I joined their game
But I turned and fought them
Like you always knew I'd do
I sat and dreamed at the foot of your bed
You split my skull and reached inside my head
And pulled out the pictures I'd been wishing I'd forget
And you stitched me up then
And wiped the blood from off my chin
Now I sit on the rooftop's edge
The muddy street beneath my swollen head
Trying to forget you
To believe we've never met
And the sky is wrecked, full of rotting clouds
From chimney mouths spewing smoke around
And I can't stop coughing
My lungs just won't calm down
But still I keep grinning
As the blood from my face stains the ground
A bird, caught in the wires
Bleating for help I can't provide, I'm not that big
I hope for the best but nothing changes, I'm sorry
But I was blessed with bad eyes
There's a lot that I miss but I don't mind, I'm not that old
I'll find out what broke me soon enough
When the world turned wicked, when I joined their game
But I turned and fought them
Like you always knew I'd do
I sat and dreamed at the foot of your bed
You split my skull and reached inside my head
And pulled out the pictures I'd been wishing I'd forget
And you stitched me up then
And wiped the blood from off my chin
Now I sit on the rooftop's edge
The muddy street beneath my swollen head
Trying to forget you
To believe we've never met
And the sky is wrecked, full of rotting clouds
From chimney mouths spewing smoke around
And I can't stop coughing
My lungs just won't calm down
But still I keep grinning
As the blood from my face stains the ground
A bird, caught in the wires
Bleating for help I can't provide, I'm not that big
I hope for the best but nothing changes, I'm sorry
But I was blessed with bad eyes
There's a lot that I miss but I don't mind, I'm not that old
I'll find out what broke me soon enough
Lyrics submitted by Mechanical Bird
Track duration: 06:14
"Glory" as written by Benjamin P Cooper
Lyrics © THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY
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he seems temporarily trapped in painful memories. there is a sense that what broke him was himself.
through the inner conflict you can almost feel him slowly discovering his way out of it. however wounds do not heal overnight...
The song also have a strong mood of despairity and futility,--"the sky is wrecked" and the idea of rotting clouds, as well as the bird stuck in a wire that he can't help and that all he can do is hope for the best. the last stanza also ties into this, "find out what broke me soon enough" sounds like there is something wrong with him that caused his problems, or at least to me.
There's a lot that I miss but I don't mind" i think in this lyric he is speaking metaphoricly how he does not see all the evils in the world and that he does not mind because it gives him less to worry about.