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Use your intuition
It's all you've got
Keys are revving
There's a dozen locks
Standing your way
So goes the gold age
To your entire life
Digging for a way
You cast a spell
Grab a path from all the things they sell
But they don't let go
Just touch your shin bone
Keep them away
I know what I know
But nothing will fill the hole
So let your mind go (Let my mind go)
Straight down the runway
Does one want to
Get more used to?
The mall and misery (The mall and the misery)
The dead mouths it costs to be alive
Oh she lies half burning
From the batting crows
You're falling like a lamb
What you've never been told
There's a new world
Somewhere a good girl
Lives and breathes
Part of her opened the callow mind
Audio has stolen the morning tide
There's a dark time
This is a dark life
Feel your heart
I know what I know
But nothing will fill the hole
So let your mind go (Let my mind go)
Straight down the runway
Does one want to
Get more used to?
The mall and misery (The mall and the misery)
The dead mouths it costs to be alive
It's all you've got
Keys are revving
There's a dozen locks
Standing your way
So goes the gold age
To your entire life
Digging for a way
You cast a spell
Grab a path from all the things they sell
But they don't let go
Just touch your shin bone
Keep them away
I know what I know
But nothing will fill the hole
So let your mind go (Let my mind go)
Straight down the runway
Does one want to
Get more used to?
The mall and misery (The mall and the misery)
The dead mouths it costs to be alive
Oh she lies half burning
From the batting crows
You're falling like a lamb
What you've never been told
There's a new world
Somewhere a good girl
Lives and breathes
Part of her opened the callow mind
Audio has stolen the morning tide
There's a dark time
This is a dark life
Feel your heart
I know what I know
But nothing will fill the hole
So let your mind go (Let my mind go)
Straight down the runway
Does one want to
Get more used to?
The mall and misery (The mall and the misery)
The dead mouths it costs to be alive
Lyrics submitted by Konversekid
Track duration: 04:07
"The Mall and Misery" as written by James Mercer Brian Joseph Burton
Lyrics © CHRYSALIS MUSIC GROUP
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There's a real world Somewhere a good girl Lives and breathes"
ima take a guess at the meaning and mention that cheap labor bordering on slavery still seems to be a booming business. cell phones, shirts and shoes, laptops with springy keys and mp3 players streaming the tunes of broken bells ...most of it is made in a foreign country by workers who get paid teeny tiny wages. most of it is made by hungry people with hungry mouths - people who can't afford heat. even the fork i use to eat was likely made by a hungry person...that's the real world, and that's what you're never told when the goods are sold...
maybe we call retail outlets "chain stores" for a reason...
i might be completely off with my interpretation, but for me, it seems to fit...
Great song, that to me is about the consumerism that's taken over our country:
"keys are rare and there's a dozen locks standing in your way"-no matter how you may wish to not buy into it; we're hit from all sides by the message to buy, buy, buy...
"so goes the golden age of your entire life"-you can waste the best years of your life feeling less than others because of all the things you don't have...
"digging for a way, you cast a spell
carve a path from all the things they sell, but they don't let go"-It takes some serious effort to extricate yourself from the traps all these multi-billion dollar corporations lay for you, to keep you always wanting more...
"I know what I know, would not fill a thimble"-he's cautioning us that he knows nothing, therefore can't tell us what to do; that to really be free you have to "let your mind go, straight down the runway", let your mind take flight...
"does one want to get more used to, the mall and misery, the debt mounts, it costs to be alive"-do we really want our lives to be spent acquiring crap at the mall? It only brings misery in the end. Our debt mounts and mounts...
And so on. I don't have time right now to go through the whole song, but this is what I've always gotten from it. Great lyrics, beautiful melody and vocals...bravo Broken Bells.
but playing music at the mall
I can really dig this song
Love the title
I think a lot of people are caught in between doing all the things a person has to do in our society to survive "comfortably" and being themselves in their natural forms. We get caught between those two routes at a relatively young age...possibly an age when we should really be using who we ARE to add something the world...or just to not be miserable.
There are more forces pulling people toward doing what they have to do in the conventional world than not and that's why this song exists, I think. They ARE telling people to not mute their intuitions for any reason, because so many things drown out the thoughts of individual people.
Does anyone think that The Mall has anything to do with this line from Nothing at All?
"You got a feeling nothing here is free,
'Cause you grew up in a mall."
pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13979-broken-bells/
"The dead mouths it costs to be alive" I think he's saying that while you're here alive there are millions that are dying and they could probably do a better job at living your life than you are now. Also "powder hope' could mean drugs, her young mind turns to drugs for hope while the world around "the morning tide" washes her ideas away in this dark time when true genius is ignore and pandering puppets rise to fame.
Oh she lies half burning
From the biting cold
You're falling a lamb
What you've never been told
There's a real world
Somewhere a good girl
Lives and breathes
This verse confuses me a bit, could he be talking about a different side of her?
"lamb" I think is a reference to innocence rather than stupidity.