Aside from it being related/about his parents. This is my take on the song itself which is nothing related to religion.
Obviously(The way i see the song at least), the song is about losing some one that you find is very close to you, or in your mind that you deeply love.
Saw Cinderella in a party dress
But she was looking for a nightgown
I saw the devil wrapping up his hands
He's getting ready for the showdown
I saw the ending where they turned the page
I took my money and I ran away
Straight to the valley of the great divide
Cinderella is dissapearing from the man's life, and some one or something is taking that away from him.
"The Devil wrapping up his hands."
When the man saw the ending to her, he wanted to leave it all behind and some how either forget what had happened or take that feeling with him for the rest of his life, as he knows it is what gave him hope and dreams.
Change came in disguise of revelation, set his soul on fire
She says she always knew he'd come around
And the decades disappear like sinking ships
But we persevere, God gives us hope
But we still fear what we don't know
When he started to see the change in her life, or see the signs of her leaving in some form or another, it gave him a feeling of sickness and upset him so that it caused him tireless days/nights.
Through being together for so long, saying that life goes by so fast, and the only thing that gives you something to look forward to is the fact that you have hope in each other, whether it's through god or something else. He begins to see the loss of her since neither of them know their exact fear.
The mind is poison
Castles in the sky sit stranded, vandalized
Drawbridges closing
The mind blinds you to what you want to see and what is real. All the "Castles" are, are just dreams being thrown into the air, but unable to reach them in one way or another. As the drawbridges closing, the dreams are slowly being taken away, and your time to reach them are limited to what you have left with that person, so act fast.
Now Cinderella, don't you go to sleep
It's such a bitter form of refuge
Oh don't you know, the kingdom's under siege
And everybody needs you
The man is asking her to not dissapear from him, to never leave him at all. He is saying that, even if she feels bad about one thing, or leaves for something else, everyone else around her needs her and is trying to convince her of that.
Is there still magic in the midnight sun
Or did you leave it back in 61?
In the cadence of a young man's eyes
I wouldn't dream so high
Here, the man is asking about all the good times they have had together will still continue to last and dream about, or if it was only a sort of "fling" and only was there when they had first met. Through his eye's, without the sight of her or the loss of her, he won't be able to dream of anything else so magnificent.
Out where the dreams are high
Out here, the wind don't blow
Out here, the good girls die
And the sky won't snow
Out here, the birds don't sing
Out here, the fields don't grow
Out here, the bell don't ring
Out here, the bell don't ring
Out here, the good girls die
With these lines, the song, to me is related to the idea of being a Hopeless Romantic.
You want something you can't have. You miss your chances in life. Everything that you could have dreamed of having in your "fairytale world" comes back in reality as being un-obtainable. All the things you could have ever wanted in life, the nice things, the perfect significant other, the wonderful home, all die out once you realize what is real and what separates it all from a FairyTale and Reality.
That is just my take on the song. I know its about his parents. But, throwing that out, this is what i think it is about.
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Aside from it being related/about his parents. This is my take on the song itself which is nothing related to religion.
Obviously(The way i see the song at least), the song is about losing some one that you find is very close to you, or in your mind that you deeply love.
Saw Cinderella in a party dress But she was looking for a nightgown I saw the devil wrapping up his hands He's getting ready for the showdown I saw the ending where they turned the page I took my money and I ran away Straight to the valley of the great divide
Cinderella is dissapearing from the man's life, and some one or something is taking that away from him.
"The Devil wrapping up his hands."
When the man saw the ending to her, he wanted to leave it all behind and some how either forget what had happened or take that feeling with him for the rest of his life, as he knows it is what gave him hope and dreams.
Change came in disguise of revelation, set his soul on fire She says she always knew he'd come around And the decades disappear like sinking ships But we persevere, God gives us hope But we still fear what we don't know
When he started to see the change in her life, or see the signs of her leaving in some form or another, it gave him a feeling of sickness and upset him so that it caused him tireless days/nights. Through being together for so long, saying that life goes by so fast, and the only thing that gives you something to look forward to is the fact that you have hope in each other, whether it's through god or something else. He begins to see the loss of her since neither of them know their exact fear.
The mind is poison Castles in the sky sit stranded, vandalized Drawbridges closing
The mind blinds you to what you want to see and what is real. All the "Castles" are, are just dreams being thrown into the air, but unable to reach them in one way or another. As the drawbridges closing, the dreams are slowly being taken away, and your time to reach them are limited to what you have left with that person, so act fast.
Now Cinderella, don't you go to sleep It's such a bitter form of refuge Oh don't you know, the kingdom's under siege And everybody needs you
The man is asking her to not dissapear from him, to never leave him at all. He is saying that, even if she feels bad about one thing, or leaves for something else, everyone else around her needs her and is trying to convince her of that.
Is there still magic in the midnight sun Or did you leave it back in 61? In the cadence of a young man's eyes I wouldn't dream so high
Here, the man is asking about all the good times they have had together will still continue to last and dream about, or if it was only a sort of "fling" and only was there when they had first met. Through his eye's, without the sight of her or the loss of her, he won't be able to dream of anything else so magnificent.
Out where the dreams are high Out here, the wind don't blow Out here, the good girls die And the sky won't snow Out here, the birds don't sing Out here, the fields don't grow Out here, the bell don't ring Out here, the bell don't ring
Out here, the good girls die
With these lines, the song, to me is related to the idea of being a Hopeless Romantic. You want something you can't have. You miss your chances in life. Everything that you could have dreamed of having in your "fairytale world" comes back in reality as being un-obtainable. All the things you could have ever wanted in life, the nice things, the perfect significant other, the wonderful home, all die out once you realize what is real and what separates it all from a FairyTale and Reality.
That is just my take on the song. I know its about his parents. But, throwing that out, this is what i think it is about.