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Let me go boys, let me go
Push my bone from the highest cliff to the sea below
Rocks are waiting boys, rocks are waiting
Swoop down from the sky and catch me like the bird to prey
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Now my head won't stop
You wait a lifetime to be found
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Singing now my feet won't touch the ground
Now my head won't stop
You wait a lifetime to be found
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Push my bone from the highest cliff to the sea below
Rocks are waiting boys, rocks are waiting
Swoop down from the sky and catch me like the bird to prey
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Now my head won't stop
You wait a lifetime to be found
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Singing now my feet won't touch the ground
Now my head won't stop
You wait a lifetime to be found
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Now my feet won't touch the ground
Lyrics submitted by eighteesix, edited by 28fm, Mellow_Harsher
Track duration: 02:28
"Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground" as written by Christopher Anthony John Martin, Guy Rupert Berryman, Jonathan Mark Buckland, William Champion
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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As for the meaning, I think it goes more along the lines of a guy being so in love with a girl that he feels like his feet won't touch the ground. He's oblivious to everything else in the world. But music is open for interpretation, so it's whatever you want it to be, I guess.
I think it sounds less like "inevitable death" and more like he's committing suicide. To me, it sounds like he's tired of this world and all its problems, and wants to move on to the next.
I think "Let me go boys" is like asking everyone to stop and let it go.
"push my boat off..." you know how people who care too much about other peoples opinions are like drowning themselves in self consciousness, it kills them emotionally.
"swoop down from..." Is him trying to stop himself and not care and find who he really is. and Now his feet won't touch the ground and he is just going to live his life his way and be who he really is. He won't touch the ground and be like everyone else.
It all sounds stupid when I try to explain it, but it make sense in my head. I guess that is just how it touches me, even though it might not make sense.
One the one hand, it may be everyone else has said. At the end of a physical life, you may experience a falling sensation, but instead of hitting the awaiting rocks below, you are swept up and your soul is carried off to a better place.
But on the other hand, I feel this song can be interpreted as a love song. To "let me go" is to rid yourself of all fear of a potentially broken heart. To "push my boat from the highest cliff to the sea below" is to fall completely and unconditionally in love with the love of your life. Instead of falling to the sharp, jagged rocks that are a broken heart, your love will "swoop down from the sky and catch me like a bird of prey" and you live on in eternal happiness with the one "you wait a lifetime to be found" by.
I personally hear it as the latter, however, I believe that it doesn't matter how the song was intended to be interpreted. What is important is simply that it touches your heart and fills you with passion, whatever that passion may be.
I think the "boat" in this song is representative of our bodies, to be surely broken by the rocks below. But, our souls are caught by whatever swoops down to save us "like a bird of prey."
And, I guess we are all lost until we go home...which is heaven in my mind. Hence, "you wait a lifetime to be found"
I personally get a vein of insanity/suicide from the lyrics (asking them to push his boat from the highest cliff; his feet not touching the ground could imply the narrator's lost touch with reality). It hasn't all come together yet, though...