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I
I can't promise you that I won't let you down
And I
I can't promise you that I will be the only one around
When your hope falls down
But we are
Open flowers in the windy fields of this war-torn world
And love
This city breathes the plague of loving things more than their creators
I ran away
I could not take the burden of both me and you
It was too fast
Casting love on me as if it were a spell I could not break
When it was a promise I could not make
But what if I was wrong?
Oh, what if I was wrong?
But hold on to what you believe in the light
When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight
And oh, hold on to what you believe in the light
When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight
And now this land
Means less and less to me without you breathing through its trees
At every turn
The water runs away from me and the halo disappears
I'm not whole when you're not near
So what if I was wrong?
Oh, what if I was wrong?
Oh, what if I was wrong?
But hold on to what you believe in the light
When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight
And oh, hold on to what you believed in the light
When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight
Hold on to what you believed in the light.
I can't promise you that I won't let you down
And I
I can't promise you that I will be the only one around
When your hope falls down
But we are
Open flowers in the windy fields of this war-torn world
And love
This city breathes the plague of loving things more than their creators
I ran away
I could not take the burden of both me and you
It was too fast
Casting love on me as if it were a spell I could not break
When it was a promise I could not make
But what if I was wrong?
Oh, what if I was wrong?
But hold on to what you believe in the light
When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight
And oh, hold on to what you believe in the light
When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight
And now this land
Means less and less to me without you breathing through its trees
At every turn
The water runs away from me and the halo disappears
I'm not whole when you're not near
So what if I was wrong?
Oh, what if I was wrong?
Oh, what if I was wrong?
But hold on to what you believe in the light
When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight
And oh, hold on to what you believed in the light
When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight
Hold on to what you believed in the light.
Lyrics submitted by Nobody-special, edited by msudawwg, Mellow_Harsher
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That's what Marcus is trying to say.
James moon
i do think it was about a guy who had someone he loved very much, ran in the other direction, and then missed them again
but, people are saying he was running from commitment he wasnt ready to have, yes right, but i also see him being justified in his leaving, like maybe she was asking more then he had to offer, maybe she wanted promises he couldnt make, he knows they are young and maybe nothing is forever, maybe she brought an extra burden to his life, and he was already going through other things so he had to leave her for his own good.
she was this darkness in his life that at that point in his life he needed to leave behind to feel better, or to reconstruct..
So what if I was wrong?
"But hold on to what you believe in the light
When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight"
after he says what if i was wrong.. he reminds himself.. no.. stand by your decision .. you made it for a reason, theres no reason to look back and miss the good when there was so much worse going on. that darkness blinded you at one point, and now continues to.. tricking you into believeing.. maybe it wasnt so bad back then, maybe i need you? maybe i want you? when in reality, you know the light is to stay AWAY.
this is honestly the story of my relationship with my current boyfriend, i didnt stay away and now im realizing things didnt change.. time made me miss him but he continues to be this blinding black hole in my life.. that i need to remove myself from.
"I ran away
I could not take the burden of both me and you
It was too fast
Casting love on me as if it were a spell I could not break
When it was a promise I could not make
But what if I was wrong?"
This could, of course, be talking about a love, but from this perspective, it seems like the speaker's afraid of the power of God's love: he wonders why he loves him so unconditionally especially when he thinks that he himself is incapable of reciprocating this. If he does, he could be wrong, and then where would he be?
Anyway, it's just a really interesting song that can easily be seen from different perspectives. I love it.
I think that the lyrics do speak of second guessing. I think it also could be a take on present society and how previous generations seemed less distracted, and therefore more apt to make things work.
When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight." Which, I think, means that he/she wants the other to hold on to the feelings he/she had before the other left (the light). The darkness is the feelings he/she had after the other left, and it blinds that person from seeing what they used to have as well.
it starts out sounding like its about a girl, and ends like its about god... probably he means for both interpretations to work
The central idea is to "hold on to what you believe in the light//When the darkness has robbed you of all sight". "What if I was wrong?" is coming up, he's wondering if perhaps his whole faith is a lie. He "could not take the burden of both you and I" - he has his own issues, how can he deal with being faithful to God at the same time? But the world means "less and less to [him] without [God] breathing through its trees", so he realises that he must hold on to his faith regardless of what his current state of mind leads him to believe.
Basically, when you go through tough times, you're not going to be thinking straight necessarily. You might question even your deepest beliefs. The song is simply saying that you should trust your decisions "in the light", you should believe what you believe when life is good, rather than succumbing to doubts that arrive in the dark.
And Heather Rochelle nailed exactly why it's not about religion.
He clearly defines who "we" are in the second line (ie, himself and the subject of the song).
"But we're young" clearly refers to him and the subject of the song.
Also, Mumford has very clearly expressed in this article (guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/11/… - and elsewhere) that their lyrics are "a deliberately spiritual thing but deliberately not a religious thing."
So reading [him] and [God] into his lyrics is completely incorrect.
In that article you quoted he says "We all have our separate views on religion, but I think faith is something to be celebrated. I have my own personal views, they're still real to me, and I want to write about them." - he literally says that he is going to write about his views on faith.
I'm not saying its not about a girl, it probably is, as explosionsofwarmairflow said, you probably want to keep faith and a relationship in mind at the same time here.