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It's looking like a limb torn off
Or altogether just taken apart
We're reeling through an endless fall
We are the ever-living ghost of what once was
But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do
And anything to make you smile
It is my better side of you to admire
But they should never take so long
Just to be over then back to another one
But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do
But someone,
They could have warned you
When things start splitting at the seams and now
The whole thing's tumbling down
Things start splitting at the seams and now
If things start splitting at the seams and now,
It's tumbling down
Hard.
Anything to make you smile
You are the ever-living ghost of what once was
I never want to hear you say
That you'd be better off
Or you liked it that way
But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do
But someone
They should have warned you
When things start splitting at the seams and now
The whole thing's tumbling down
Things start splitting at the seams and now
If things start splitting at the seams and now,
It's tumbling down
Hard.
Or altogether just taken apart
We're reeling through an endless fall
We are the ever-living ghost of what once was
But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do
And anything to make you smile
It is my better side of you to admire
But they should never take so long
Just to be over then back to another one
But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do
But someone,
They could have warned you
When things start splitting at the seams and now
The whole thing's tumbling down
Things start splitting at the seams and now
If things start splitting at the seams and now,
It's tumbling down
Hard.
Anything to make you smile
You are the ever-living ghost of what once was
I never want to hear you say
That you'd be better off
Or you liked it that way
But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do
But someone
They should have warned you
When things start splitting at the seams and now
The whole thing's tumbling down
Things start splitting at the seams and now
If things start splitting at the seams and now,
It's tumbling down
Hard.
Lyrics submitted by cleverername
Track duration: 03:37
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My interpretation is the song could be reference to a car accident (limb torn off could be tree limb and/or a human limb) and someone who was permanently injured in the accident and the mourning for that person and the way that person once was, the way things once were.
Another lyric change: And anything to make you smile / It is A better side of you to admire (instead of MY better side of you to admire).
An image that comes to mind here is sitting in a doctor's office tryng to make the person smile, waiting for the doctor: "But they should never take so long / Just to be over then back to another one"
So of course "splitting at the seams" could be reference to the injury or a complication from the injury/illness while also meaning falling apart, failing.
Beautiful song that yes, at first listen, I think everyone thinks of a romantic relationship.... but I don't think that is it at all, either. And I realize this thread is several years old, but I've only recenlty become a BOH fan, and so while listening to them on my headphones at work today, I decided to look up lyrics and foudn this site. Fun stuff and another great way to kill a few hours!
My interpretation is the song could be reference to a car accident (limb torn off could be tree limb and/or a human limb) and someone who was permanently injured in the accident and the mourning for that person and the way that person once was, the way things once were.
Another lyric change: And anything to make you smile / It is A better side of you to admire (instead of MY better side of you to admire).
An image that comes to mind here is sitting in a doctor's office tryng to make the person smile, waiting for the doctor: "But they should never take so long / Just to be over then back to another one"
So of course "splitting at the seams" could be reference to the injury or a complication from the injury/illness while also meaning falling apart, failing.
Beautiful song that yes, at first listen, I think everyone thinks of a romantic relationship.... but I don't think that is it at all, either. And I realize this thread is several years old, but I've only recenlty become a BOH fan, and so while listening to them on my headphones at work today, I decided to look up lyrics and foudn this site. Fun stuff and another great way to kill a few hours!
I would play this at a wedding! I can even kind of imagine the "tumbling down and splitting at the seams" representing old age and complications and death, but above all else, they're always going to love each other more than any one else. I LOVE THIS
Anything to make you smile
You are the ever-living ghost of what once was
I never want to hear you say
That you'd be better off
Or you liked it that way
I think this passage is about the person of your affection being attached to their current relationship and how you never what them to think that they were complacent with it.
I'm in currently in this situation hopelessly in love with a girl in a detrimental relationship.
Have to say I just shed a tear while listening to it.
Kill me please.
The recessional is an upbeat more old school song. I dont know the couple, I'm just the singer for the musician whos friends of the family. I'm 53 but I know my indie music well thanks to my musician son and a daughter who works at Flavorpill in NY.
People choose weird stuff for their weddings. I would choose a choir piece called My love Walk in Velvet- though you'd have to shorten it somehow- now THATS a beautiful.
I never want to hear you say
That you'd be better off
Or you liked it that way
perfection, i would only ever wish someone would sing that to me.
I think the song references wrist cutting - pretty obviously. "It's looking like a limb torn off, or altogether just taken apart."
The lines:
"And anything to make you smile
It is my better side of you to admire
But they should never take so long
Just to be over then back to another one"
- these refer to the depression that goes along with suicide.
And finally - there is this reference to things that start splitting at the seams. Well... a seam would be made at the site of an incision after a suicide attempt at cutting one's wrist. I see it as an allusion to that.
This to me is definitely a song about someone who cares for another very strongly abd they don't want to see them fall into a depression and harm them self. Beautiful song. So powerful.