This beautiful song is all about her sensing sorry for him in the relationship, as before, he was lonely and forlorn (a fallen tree that witnessed me and, ripple on water from a lonesome drip) and so he came to her, having passionate feelings towards her, she couldn’t deny his affections as she felt so blameworthy for his pain(Let it up I own his fears
But someone brought you close to tears.) She passed the time, delaying for him to fall in love with another or for him to leave her (But I am your keeper and I hold your face away from light, I am yours until they come) He never did, and this made her unhappy (But the love of your life, lives but lies no more, and where she lay a flower grows. ), this means, that 'the flower' is a beautiful memory, she is reminiscing back to when she was happy, before she knew him. But then latterly, it all came together and they ended up together, a love assembled. She was like his guardian angel, his protector, she protected him from reality and the truth, but when she confessed they were in harmony because of it?
(Eye to eye
Nose to nose
ripping off eachothers clothes
in the most perculiar way. )
the chorus, (All of this can be broken
All of this can be broken
Hold your devil by his spoke and spin him to the ground.) is when laura is talking how the relationship will end ultimately, and how it will 'break' [apart], and the last line, is a pun, as speak of the devil! is a phrase where an irrelevant topic is brought up in day to day conversations, so an abrupt change in feeling is what she is talking about here. what i have deduced from the last line is that she is, in simpler words, saying, control the uncontrollable, deny your affections. but she discovers she is wrong at the end verse of the song.
This beautiful song is all about her sensing sorry for him in the relationship, as before, he was lonely and forlorn (a fallen tree that witnessed me and, ripple on water from a lonesome drip) and so he came to her, having passionate feelings towards her, she couldn’t deny his affections as she felt so blameworthy for his pain(Let it up I own his fears But someone brought you close to tears.) She passed the time, delaying for him to fall in love with another or for him to leave her (But I am your keeper and I hold your face away from light, I am yours until they come) He never did, and this made her unhappy (But the love of your life, lives but lies no more, and where she lay a flower grows. ), this means, that 'the flower' is a beautiful memory, she is reminiscing back to when she was happy, before she knew him. But then latterly, it all came together and they ended up together, a love assembled. She was like his guardian angel, his protector, she protected him from reality and the truth, but when she confessed they were in harmony because of it?
(Eye to eye Nose to nose ripping off eachothers clothes in the most perculiar way. )
the chorus, (All of this can be broken All of this can be broken Hold your devil by his spoke and spin him to the ground.) is when laura is talking how the relationship will end ultimately, and how it will 'break' [apart], and the last line, is a pun, as speak of the devil! is a phrase where an irrelevant topic is brought up in day to day conversations, so an abrupt change in feeling is what she is talking about here. what i have deduced from the last line is that she is, in simpler words, saying, control the uncontrollable, deny your affections. but she discovers she is wrong at the end verse of the song.
beautiful beautiful song :)