Ms Harmless wrote:I think "fell from the altar, a vision, you caught her..." implies an altar of worship, not marriage: someone you pedestalled into an idol / icon, who then fell from the place you'd put her; I'm less sure of "but then, a wood cut in red", but again, it makes me think of an idol / icon, like Mary bleeding from the eyeslowlight79 wrote:One of the verses makes it sounds like a friend of Ed's was left standing at the Altar. I wonder who he's talking about if anyone, could just be a metaphor for something else.
edit: or even a Crucifix
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agreed. ties loosely into some of the medievalish imagery elsewhere in the song too
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This might end up being my favorite Ed solo song. And man, that chorus kills me- something about its singing style really recalls Chris, and I dig the backing track a lot!
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It's so SO good. And it flies by. This song feels like a two minute song, somehow!
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yeah. its awesome reallydurdencommatyler wrote:It's so SO good. And it flies by. This song feels like a two minute song, somehow!
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