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And after the storm,
I run and run as the rains come
And I look up, I look up,
on my knees and out of luck,
I look up.
Night has always pushed up day
You must know life to see decay
But I won't rot, I won't rot
Not this mind and not this heart,
I won't rot.
And I took you by the hand
And we stood tall,
And remembered our own land,
What we lived for.
And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
And now I cling to what I knew
I saw exactly what was true
But oh no more.
That's why I hold,
That's why I hold with all I have.
That's why I hold.
And I will die alone and be left there.
Well I guess I'll just go home,
Oh God knows where.
Because death is just so full and man so small.
Well I'm scared of what's behind and what's before.
And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
I run and run as the rains come
And I look up, I look up,
on my knees and out of luck,
I look up.
Night has always pushed up day
You must know life to see decay
But I won't rot, I won't rot
Not this mind and not this heart,
I won't rot.
And I took you by the hand
And we stood tall,
And remembered our own land,
What we lived for.
And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
And now I cling to what I knew
I saw exactly what was true
But oh no more.
That's why I hold,
That's why I hold with all I have.
That's why I hold.
And I will die alone and be left there.
Well I guess I'll just go home,
Oh God knows where.
Because death is just so full and man so small.
Well I'm scared of what's behind and what's before.
And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
Lyrics submitted by tikilights, edited by kcostell
Track duration: 04:08
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Verse 1: The storm being the relationship. So after the relationship has come to an end. And the rain falls on him. A sad, but refreshing and cleansing rain. The end of the storm.
Verse 2: He knows that sometimes with the beauty of love (or life), there is heartbreak and its terrible (the decay). You must know love to feel heartbreak. But he refuses to let the heartbreak rot him.
Bridge 1: Together he and his partner remembered everything they had been through during the closure of the relationship, before they part ways.
Chorus: He reminds himself, that he will experience true love again. But he will not have to worry like he has in the past relationship, and one day, a lover will not break his heart and it will be true. "Get over your hill" meaning that he needs to get past the hardest part of the breakup, and it will all be down hill from there.
Verse 3: He holds on to what he knows and that is that he loved her, and now he sees the truth that they can no longer be together. Yet, no matter who else he dates, he will always love her.
Bridge 2: The part that he has become during the relationship will die and it will remain where it belongs: with the tombstone of the relationship. He does not know where he will go next, yet, he knows that God has a plan for him. He is afraid of his past and what will happen to him next.
Since this song follows after dust bowl dance, surely it’s related to the dust storm from the dust bowl period. About a guy who refuse to migrate with the others and hoping to do what he’s done all his life (farming).
1st verse
After the storms and severe draught, the rain comes but the crops still won’t grow due to damage land due to the extensive plowing.
2nd verse
Even after seeing the crops die in front of his eyes, he does not want to lose hope and to continue farming.
Bridge
He stays with everybody he loves. They stood still while watching everyone else flees.
Chorus
He promises them that better time is just around the corner.
4th verse
He knows that it will not happen but he still hoping. Also he does not know to do anything else than farming.
Last verse
He will die alone due to his stubbornness and hope that then everybody he loves will eventually leave the land but he is afraid that people who stays because of his decision will also dies.
Since this song follows after dust bowl dance, it’s related to the dust storm from the dust bowl period. About this guy who refuse to migrate with the others and hoping to do what he’s done all his life (farming).
1st verse
After the storms and severe draught, the rain comes but the crops still won’t grow due to damage land due to the extensive plowing.
2nd verse
Even after seeing the crops die in front of his eyes, he does not want to lose hope and to continue farming.
Bridge
He stays and ask everybody he loves to stand by his decision. They watch everyone else flees.
Chorus
He promises them that better time is just around the corner.
4th verse
He knows that it will not happen but he is still hoping. Also he does not know anything else other than farming.
Last verse
He will die alone due to his stubbornness but hope that everybody he loves will eventually leave the land. He is afraid that people who stays will also die.
"You must know life to see decay. But I won't rot"
Why isn't he rotting? Not because he's strong, but because there's no life there left to rot.
"That's why I hold with all I have"
What does he hold to? The earlier times, "I cling to what I knew". He's lost now, so all he can do is hold on to the past, the way things were before whatever this is storm is that happened to him.
All he can do is hold on to the past, wait, and hope that "there will come a time" when whoever he is singing this to comes back to him. But even he knows that it's far more likely that he "will die alone, and be left there".
Yes, there will come a time with no more tears, but for someone else, not for the singer.
"And I look up, I look up,
on my knees and out of luck,
I look up."
(praying, when he is out of luck, he looks up to God)
"And I took you by the hand
And we stood tall,
And remembered our own land,
What we lived for."
(found God, and he stood tall and remembered the land God made and that we live because of him)
And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
(with God in your heart, there will be no need for tears, when you get over the hill and find God with grace in your heart, love won't break your heart it will only dismiss your fears.)
There's a group of people taking shelter on a cabin. The groups is very weak and there's a lot of kids and women among them. Zombies start attacking the place and people panick, there's no way they are going to survive.
Among the group there's this guy. He has always been in love with a girl, but she's in love with some one else. When the attack starts, he goes and tries to confess his love to the girl but he sees him kissing other man.
"And after the storm,
I run and run as the rains come
And I look up, I look up,
on my knees and out of luck,
I look up.
Night has always pushed up day
You must know life to see decay
But I won't rot, I won't rot
Not this mind and not this heart,
I won't rot."
He makes the descision to stay behind and save the group. Broken hearted, he takes a gun and comes outside firing, distracting the zombies and giving the group a chance to escape. He has only a few round of ammo and they start running out.
"And I took you by the hand
And we stood tall,
And remembered our own land,
What we lived for.
And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
And now I cling to what I knew
I saw exactly what was true
But oh no more.
That's why I hold,
That's why I hold with all I have.
That's why I hold."
He rans out of ammo and tries to fight, but the zombies are just too many. He closes his eyes and starts imagining a life with this girl on a place where the two can be happy together. Finally, he feels happy she's getting a chance to live her life, even if it's not with him.
"I won't die alone and be left there.
Well I guess I'll just go home,
Oh God knows where.
Because death is just so full and man so small.
Well I'm scared of what's behind and what's before."
Finally the creatures start eating him up and he dies. Then I imagine the girl riding in the back of some truck staring at the night through the windshield. she's leaning on other man's arms, but she is thinking about the brave boy that saved them. A tear scapes her eye
"And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair."
then she whippes it off and leans into the man's arm and drifts off to sleep pacefully.
"And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair."
Try the idea that it is about a WW1 soldier, and his comrades in arms. A lot of it works. Although I don't really think that M