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Look back in silence
The cradle of your whole life
There in the distance
Losing its greatest pride
Nothing is easy, nothing is sacred, why?
Where did the bow break?
It happened before your time
And there were people there
Lovely as you'd ever care
Tonight, baby, you can start again
Laughing in the open air
Have yourself another dream
Tonight, maybe we can start again
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
Mother, it's cold here
Father, thy will be done
Thunder and lightning are crashing down
They got me on the run
Direct me to the sun
Redemption, keep my covers clean tonight
Baby, we can start again
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
And the sun will shine again
And the sun will shine again
Are you looking for a sign?
Or are you caught up in the lie?
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
The cradle of your whole life
There in the distance
Losing its greatest pride
Nothing is easy, nothing is sacred, why?
Where did the bow break?
It happened before your time
And there were people there
Lovely as you'd ever care
Tonight, baby, you can start again
Laughing in the open air
Have yourself another dream
Tonight, maybe we can start again
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
Mother, it's cold here
Father, thy will be done
Thunder and lightning are crashing down
They got me on the run
Direct me to the sun
Redemption, keep my covers clean tonight
Baby, we can start again
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
And the sun will shine again
And the sun will shine again
Are you looking for a sign?
Or are you caught up in the lie?
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
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Look back in silence
The cradle of your whole life [his childhood, his family and early home.]
There in the distance
Losing its greatest pride [think "The Pride of the Yankees", the pride of the cradle of his whole life was his mother and now she's gone.]
Nothing is easy, nothing is sacred, why? [he's having trouble coping with her death and maybe he's had trouble coping with his success in rock, but he also realizes that he's not honoring the sacred that she would have wanted him to honor. why is it that I find myself in a condition in my life where nothing is sacred? ]
Where did the bow break? [remember, the cradle fell when the bow broke.]
It happened before your time [mom, you died too soon. you were to young.]
And there were people there
Lovely as you'd ever care [were the people he now associates with any more kind or lovely than the people from his youth? he's remembering they weren't so bad and he finds something lovely about them. Not every person in life is lucky enough to be able to say this about the people they grew up with, but apparently he can. He talks a lot about the joy in his home when he was young.]
Tonight, maybe you can start again
Laughing in the open air
Have yourself another dream
Tonight, maybe we can start again [You can always be forgiven. You can always change. You can always start over. All can be erased and made new again. I will make all things new again.]
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own [You have to become as a little child, then you can break away from what weighs you down. You can break away from the pain and sorrow by returning to the simplicity of when you were young, when your heart was open and life was simpler.]
Mother, it's cold here [Mom, I miss you. Life without you is cold.]
Father, thy will be done [OK, God. You allowed her to die. It was painful for me, but you know best. I'm willing to trust.]
Thunder and lightning are crashing down
They got me on the run [So here I now am all alone with what I struggle with.]
Direct me to the sun [Get me out of dark and into the sun. A plea for guidance.]
Redemption, keep my covers clean tonight [Anything he's done wrong can all be washed away and he can made new again. A spiritual rebirth, and a realization that redemption is real and always available, and a plea that it always be so and always be available for when he stumbles, as we all do.]
Baby, we can start again [we can always start again. There is never a time we can't start over. It is never too late.]
And the sun will shine again
And the sun will shine again
Are you looking for a sign? [This depends on whether the next line is lie or light. Sometimes seeking for a sign is bad, when you're waiting for proof before you're willing to believe in anything. Not sure here. It just depends.]
Or are you caught up in the lie?
The cradle of your whole life
There in the distance
Losing its greatest pride
Nothing is easy, nothing is sacred, why?
Where did the bow break?
It happened before your time
This first is brilliant,my interpritation is essentially he is looking back on his life, his entire life "look back in silence, the cradle of your whole life", and realising that everything he was when he was young, well, its changed now, he(and the world) is entirely different "loosing its greatest pride, nothing is easy....". Realising that his new life, of responsibilities, adulthood, problems just isn't right "where did the bow break?", he is asking where did life go wrong, but not just for him, for the entire society in a way, a ship is a vessel with many people on.. "it happened before your time".. is saying that it isn't new, it has been like this for a long time, but that doesnt make it ok.
And there were people there
Lovely as you'd ever care
Tonight, maybe you can start again
Laughing in the open air
Have yourself another dream
Tonight, maybe we can start again
This is the best verse IMO, the first lines are referring to life before "the bow had broken" when values were more intact (something Brandon has spoken of), and reassuring himself that maybe we can start again, we can get back to this way of life. (In many ways, a Utopia)
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
The chorus comes to the core meaning of the song, and IMO is him realising one of two tihngs. Either that when he was young and free he could be the person he wanted to, be happy "break away" form the modern world, lost when the wind blows, basically the wonders of childhood (something he also mentoins in the song "Jacksonville". He could however also be asking the next generation, the young, to break away from this life and change it for the future, or both really.
Mother, it's cold here
Father, thy will be done
Thunder and lightning are crashing down
They got me on the run
Direct me to the sun
Redemption, keep my covers clean tonight
Baby, we can start again
In this verse he is simply referring to the difficult life he is currently living, with tuhnder and lightning crashing down. M
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
And the sun will shine again
And the sun will shine again
Are you looking for a sign?
Or are you caught up in the lie?
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
Only the young can break away, break away
Lost when the wind blows, on your own
Mosiah 3: 19 For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and ***BECOMETH AS A CHILD, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.
***Lost when the wind blows
Helaman 5:12 And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the ***DEVIL SHALL SEND FORTH HIS MIGHTY WINDS, YEA, HIS SHAFTS IN THE WHILWIND, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.