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Sorrow found me when I was young,
Sorrow waited, sorrow won.
Sorrow that put me on the pills,
It's in my honey it's in my milk.
It's only about half a heart alone
On the water,
Cover me in rag and bones, sympathy.
'Cause I don't wanna get over you.
I don't wanna get over you.
Sorrows my body on the waves
Sorrows a girl inside my cage
I live in a city sorrow built
It's in my honey, it's in my milk.
It's only my half of heart alone,
On the water,
Cover me in rag and bones, sympathy.
'Cause I don't wanna get over you.
I don't wanna get over you.
It's only my half of heart alone,
On the water,
Cover me in rag and bones, sympathy.
'Cause I don't wanna get over you.
I don't wanna get over you.
Sorrow waited, sorrow won.
Sorrow that put me on the pills,
It's in my honey it's in my milk.
It's only about half a heart alone
On the water,
Cover me in rag and bones, sympathy.
'Cause I don't wanna get over you.
I don't wanna get over you.
Sorrows my body on the waves
Sorrows a girl inside my cage
I live in a city sorrow built
It's in my honey, it's in my milk.
It's only my half of heart alone,
On the water,
Cover me in rag and bones, sympathy.
'Cause I don't wanna get over you.
I don't wanna get over you.
It's only my half of heart alone,
On the water,
Cover me in rag and bones, sympathy.
'Cause I don't wanna get over you.
I don't wanna get over you.
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I just now watched an interview with Aaron and Bryce on Youtube, and they mentioned that the words are actually "sorrow's a girl inside my cake". The song was supposed to be a fun sort of celebration of sorrow (which I saw in another interview that I can't remember)...
But the cake part was found in the video: "Backstage with The National at the Treasure Island Music Festival".
Don't leave my hyper heart alone
on the water
cover me with rag and bones, sympathy
'cause I don't wanna get over you
Anyways, I think this song is about how bad things seem to follow one around, appearing in every aspect of one's life until it becomes a part of him or her and they get used to the idea of strife, loneliness, failure, misfortune. Pessimism, basically.
And this sorrow has been with them so long that they've almost become comfortable with it, and would feel alien with it gone.
But this song is not just describing sorrow. It is about depression, which is not just a short state of sorrowed mind, but a long cloudy mass of sorrow that is hard to overcome, for which it is hard for light to shine through. Sorrow waited, sorrow won.
"Sorrows a girl inside my cage" is the most touching line. I think the singer sings "Sorrow is", explaining what sorrow means. The singer gives definition to depression here and integrally mentions the cause. The unsatisfying and uncontrollable nature of the world that gives rise to sorrow, especially experienced in entangling relationships. For me this reminds the essence of monkhood (a renunciating lifestyle chosen in order to find space to observe and let go craving, grief, sorrow), a way to get rid of unwholesome mental states, including sorrow and depression.
However, "A girl inside your cage" is not about renunciation but a metaphor for the worldly life. It is about maintaining the preconditions for suffering and sorrowing, seeing no choice, no solution, no way out (cage) to escape from sorrow and depression, which is caused by craving and entanglement (for which 'girl' is metaphor). Sadly enough, the effect of just continuing the worldly way is even more sorrow and depression...
lyric is thrown in because that is matts favorite store in nyc actually brooklyn.
the name of the store"rag and bone"
lyric is thrown in because that is matts favorite store in nyc actually brooklyn.
the name of the store"rag and bone"