But the love of your life lives, but lies no more
Than where she lay your flowers grows,
The arms that fed and the babes that wed,
The backs that bled keeping her in tow,
The next part goes, "But I am your keeper/And I hold your face away from light." It sounds as if she is keeping him from seeing the truth. What truth? You look at the part before this line and it sounds as if the guy thought that the woman he loves was dead because it says, "The love of your life lives but lies no more." So if you put it together, it sounds as if the narrator is keeping this information away from him so that she can be with this man.
The part about "arms fed, babes wed, backs that bled" sounds like it is about the life that the man and his children went through after his wife died (or was thought to be dead). "Backs that bled keeping her in tow" is about the struggle that the family went through to as they lived on after she died. The struggle to live with this memory of her ("Keeping her in tow").
By the way, the lyrics can be found at her website as well: lauramarling.com/
under the Listen link.
The part of this song, to me, is about how once upon a time women kind of 'died' when they were married... the person they were before marriage might as well be dead, because as a wife their duties left little time for individualities. The 'flower that grows' could be a bridal bouquet. The list of arms and babes and such keeping her... I hear 'interred' not 'in tow' -- the duties of being a wife and mother keep the girl she was from living.
The part of this song, to me, is about how once upon a time women kind of 'died' when they were married... the person they were before marriage might as well be dead, because as a wife their duties left little time for individualities. The 'flower that grows' could be a bridal bouquet. The list of arms and babes and such keeping her... I hear 'interred' not 'in tow' -- the duties of being a wife and mother keep the girl she was from living.
I am so confused by this part:
But the love of your life lives, but lies no more Than where she lay your flowers grows, The arms that fed and the babes that wed, The backs that bled keeping her in tow,
The next part goes, "But I am your keeper/And I hold your face away from light." It sounds as if she is keeping him from seeing the truth. What truth? You look at the part before this line and it sounds as if the guy thought that the woman he loves was dead because it says, "The love of your life lives but lies no more." So if you put it together, it sounds as if the narrator is keeping this information away from him so that she can be with this man.
The part about "arms fed, babes wed, backs that bled" sounds like it is about the life that the man and his children went through after his wife died (or was thought to be dead). "Backs that bled keeping her in tow" is about the struggle that the family went through to as they lived on after she died. The struggle to live with this memory of her ("Keeping her in tow").
By the way, the lyrics can be found at her website as well: lauramarling.com/ under the Listen link.
The part of this song, to me, is about how once upon a time women kind of 'died' when they were married... the person they were before marriage might as well be dead, because as a wife their duties left little time for individualities. The 'flower that grows' could be a bridal bouquet. The list of arms and babes and such keeping her... I hear 'interred' not 'in tow' -- the duties of being a wife and mother keep the girl she was from living.
The part of this song, to me, is about how once upon a time women kind of 'died' when they were married... the person they were before marriage might as well be dead, because as a wife their duties left little time for individualities. The 'flower that grows' could be a bridal bouquet. The list of arms and babes and such keeping her... I hear 'interred' not 'in tow' -- the duties of being a wife and mother keep the girl she was from living.
good insight ageh4chou
good insight ageh4chou