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ain't it funny how we pretend we're still a child
softly stolen under our blanket skies
and rescue me from me, and all that i believe
i won't deny the pain
i won't deny the change
and should i fall from grace here with you
will you leave me too?
carve out your heart for keeps in an old oak tree
and hold me for goodbyes-and whispered lullabyes
and tell me i am still
the man i'm supposed to be
i won't deny the pain
i won't deny the change
and should i fall from grace here with you
will you leave me too?
too late to turn back now, i'm running out of sound
and i am changing, changing
and if we died right now, this fool you love somehow
is here with you
i won't deny the pain
i won't deny the change
and should i fall from grace here with you
would you leave me too?
softly stolen under our blanket skies
and rescue me from me, and all that i believe
i won't deny the pain
i won't deny the change
and should i fall from grace here with you
will you leave me too?
carve out your heart for keeps in an old oak tree
and hold me for goodbyes-and whispered lullabyes
and tell me i am still
the man i'm supposed to be
i won't deny the pain
i won't deny the change
and should i fall from grace here with you
will you leave me too?
too late to turn back now, i'm running out of sound
and i am changing, changing
and if we died right now, this fool you love somehow
is here with you
i won't deny the pain
i won't deny the change
and should i fall from grace here with you
would you leave me too?
Lyrics submitted by Ice
Track duration: 04:47
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Yet over the years this song is becoming even more real to me because I am seeing now that it is about the evolution of a particular love - a transition of one love to another, an institution of change which involves a serious skepticism based on the prospect of being hurt once again.
"and should i fall from grace here with you
will you leave me too?
too late to turn back now
im running out of sound
and i am changing, changing"
The difficulty and indecision of leaving one for another. It is about a conflicting love. Inevitable, undeniable change. Yet there will always be worry for what you're leaving.
listened to a lot of pumpkins while playing that game
i think the strongest line in the song, for me, is "tell me i am still the man i'm supposed to be." it seems to express that he knows he's not a good husband anymore, but he's still wishing they could recapture their youth, and that she will still see him as the man she wanted him to be and thought he would be when they got married.
in the end of the song, he seems to acknowledge the fact that he has changed, that he can't help it, and he is hoping she'll stay with him because he loves her, despite all his changes and flaws.
I get this feeling from the line
"i won't deny the change, and should i fall from grace here with you, would you leave me too?". I also get the feeling that he's kind of being rejected by others for making whatever decision it is. & he's relying on the one he loves to understand but she isn't. Listening to the song doesn't give me that sense but the lyrics do if that makes sense. I guess because in a situation like that you'd think some one would be more resentful with their tone but the song has a calmer tone, obviously a sad one too.
When you marry you have a fantasy of how life should be. You are in essence still like a child with your childish thoughts and beliefs.
As you grow, you change. As I change, I may ask my wife, "am I still the man I'm supposed to be?" A marriage or any relationship has much pain and change. You cannot deny that and perhaps a fall from grace (infidelity). But in the end, he will stay with her, forever, even after death.
As we grow and mature we will change. But this doesn't mean that we still won't be the person whom the other fell in love with so long ago.
Isn't this song Galapogos about Darwin himself?
Darwin was always interested in animals, fossils, and botany. As a child he could explore in the countryside around his house searching for these things for fun, but after going to the Galapagos Islands, he formulated the theory of Evolution, which he knew was bound to change humanity and himself, forever. He could no longer "pretend [he's] a child" and now will rescue himself from all that he once believed (Christianity).
Darwin withheld publication of "On the Origin of Species" for many years because he knew what pain would follow both to Christians and himself in the academic community. But while he won't deny this pain, he could not keep his results hidden forever, thus "I won't deny the change" (of evolutionary theory).
Now the next line is very important: he is speaking to God himself - if his theory is heresy (remember, Darwin was once Christian himself) and he "falls from grace" and publishes his work does that mean that God will, like many in the academic community, "leave [him] too?"
The animals on the Galapagos Islands, having no natural predators, were very receptive to human visitors, and will not run away, making for easy observation and building of relationships. The variety of finches that Darwin discovered were the key to his theory, and having to kill some of them to analyze their anatomy, he makes a poetic gesture by putting a heart of one inside the oak trees that they live in, figuratively "holding" him with the "whispered lullabyes" that they sing to him, soothing him into knowing that his search for truth will still allow him to be the "man" (i.e. the scientist) he is "supposed to be".
The rest is fairly self-explanatory using this context.