Alternatively, it could mean someone trying to understand someone else’s mental illness, like a war vet with post-traumatic stress disorder, in order to try and help this person. It sounds to me that the woman is realising in order to understand her man fully, she has to take the same path as he: in this case, the search for enlightenment. It feels now that it’s a woman speaking to a man. Here, in the bridge, Two Door is doing a reversal of roles. No one knows really what happens after we die, right? This reinforces the idea that this idea is about mortality, god, and what happens after we die. Then we get to the line “Is it so hard not to believe / That we’ll never know”. We’re “asleep”, on auto-pilot, we don’t *do* anything of value. “We, we only know what we see / ‘Cause we’re always fast asleep”: the admittance that we’re just sheeple. The thinking that the enemy can’t hurt you if you can’t seem him/them is naive at best of course the enemy can hurt you even if you don’t see them. Reminds me of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame, but also points to the fact that this person being described is some kind of soldier. The following line “And they can’t hurt him if he can’t see them, oh” is less convincing. “And I may go / To places I have never been to / Just to find / The deepest desires in my mind”: has he ended his life to see if he can transcend what it means to be human to find spiritual enlightenment? Or, is this “desire” more human, like being in love with someone? I’m on the fence on the way the first chorus ends. This theme is repeated in the second half of verse 2: “Oh, hold, hold, hold / Hold me close / I’ve never been this far from home” – this person has left the life he has known on earth, to somewhere entirely different. He needs no protection (the “army”) because there is no danger passing from the physical living world to the spiritual one. If you believe in the idea of heaven and afterlife, you’re alone from the point you die until you make it through the pearly gates. The start of the chorus: “He sleeps alone / He needs no army where he’s headed / ‘Cause he knows / That they’re just ghosts” – need I say more? This could be viewed as someone who had died or is in the process of dying. It is also very difficult to think when your life is running a mile a minute. “Know, my only goal is to see / When I’m only fast asleep / It takes more than strength to find / This peace of mind”: it’s hard to clear your mind of things and get to a zen state. Knowing the guys though, I doubt this is what they were trying to convey. Seeing when you’re fast asleep – and in another consciousness – is something yogis do. Now, the analysis, with my thoughts grouped by topic category:ĭon’t laugh, but this is what verse 1 first said to me. That I was worthy, I was worthy, I was worthy, I was Unlike the previous analyses, I’m going to group my thoughts under headings to make the analysis a little easier to digest.Īnd they can’t hurt him if he can’t see them, ohĪnd I don’t know if in the morning I will be here
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Well, the tables may have been turned, as Two Door has revealed the first single from their second album, ‘Beacon’, and it’s miles away a better song lyrically than Delphic’s London 2012 Olympics single ‘Good Life’. I liked Delphic’s a tick more, because the content felt more intellectual to me. Where to find it: ‘Beacon’ (2012, Kitsune, Glassnote, in early September)īoth Delphic and Two Door Cinema Club’s debut albums came out in 2010, and I adore both.