Laura Marling – Night After Night

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  General Comment:general comment： how in teh world is this song getting like, 2 comments????
  
  oh ya, no shit, this is the deepest and most poised song ever by lm,.

  Flag lyrillon November 09, 2012   Link

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  Lyric Correction:Darling, I loved you
  I long to become you
  And know what it is that you gave
  
  We dance the sorrow
  Forgive me tomorrow
  And I pray night after night, day after day
  Would you watch my body weaken
  My mind drift away?
  
  Dear lover forsaken, our love is taken away
  
  You were my speaker, my innocence-keeper
  I don't night after night, day after day
  Would you watch my body weaken,
  My mind drift away?
  
  Dear lover forgiven, my love is driven by rage
  
  Oh I should just leave you, instead I've deceived you
  But I don't
  Night after night, day after day
  Would you watch my body weaken and mind drift away?
  
  I count to no one, hold nobody's ear
  I sold you my hand once and you hit me in fear
  I don't stand for the devil
  I don't whisper in ears
  I stand on the mountains and call people to hear
  
  It's a sudden burst of light, it's a fate foretold
  It is knowing, it is knowing
  
  He longs for the answers, as all of us must
  He longs for the woman who will conquer his lust
  He screams in the night, I scream in the day
  We weep in the evening and lie naked and pray
  
  Night after night, day after day
  Night after night, day after day
  Night after night, day after day
  Would you watch my body weaken and my mind drift away?
  
  It's a tempting communion
  It's a fate foretold
  It is knowing, it is knowing
  What it is that you're told

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  My Interpretation:There's a point in this song that sounds like she's talking about a past lover whose religious beliefs differed from hers. "I don't stand for the devil / I don't whisper in ears / I stand on the mountains and call people to hear..." It sounds like she's talking about being accused of preaching evil (atheism), but she insists that she's just speaking her mind and letting people listen if they wish to. (The mountains may represent the pedestal she has by being a renowned songwriter and having so many people who will listen to her.) "He longs for the answers, as all of us must / He longs for the woman who will conquer his lust / He screams in the night, I scream in the day / He weeps in the evening and lies naked and prays..." I know that Laura usually writes through characters, but this part leads me to wonder if she's writing about Marcus. A lot of M&S songs seem to have to do with Marcus's philosophical questions, and lot of their recent ones imply that he may have been unfaithful to her and how guilty and shameful he feels. That's what makes me wonder if those lines about him. Hate to be the person who reads into her personal life.

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    Interesting interpretation. I like it. On a personal note (not that I ever refrain from openingmy big, "obnoxious" mouth), guilt and shame do not last when amends are made. Forgiveness of another and forgiveness of self are wonderful antidotes. The shame lies with not making amends. Initial wrongs are never forgotten, but they are forgiven.

    Flag ThisLittlePiggyon May 09, 2012  

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    And I forgot to add that L.M. is a creative song-writer. I like her work.

    Flag ThisLittlePiggyon May 09, 2012  

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