To break all this vows" "-He want's to get closer to the person but it'll take time, thus " wait for me ", and in saying to take off the crown, the crown could represent a difference in level, like romeo and juliet where juliet was considered not to stoop as low as Romeo. He felt lost, he never expected it to be this way. Faith Hill recorded this on her 1999 album, Philippa from Rotterdam, Netherlands, United States, Jackie DeShannon - "Put a Little Love in Your Heart", David Bowie Leads the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men. He says how he imagined himself as a great warrior but now he just wants to leave. He is without hope, which leads to the thought that maybe the person he tried to get to had tried to get to someone else before, and that's why they saw black and gray. The whole colors bit could be that when you die, and recap your life you see what made you, well you. It's so, SO common here in the military. But that's not true. Song meanings ©2003-2020 lyricinterpretations.com. But really, this is just my opinion and nothing else. "The promise of safe return undelivered It was then that he felt angry at the world, when he began seeing everything as bleak, thus the term "black and grey". "But oh can you wait for me now, and take off this crown, to break off these flowers, dont you know? 'Break all these vows' could be marriage vows and he isn’t doing a good job at keeping them. -He's saying that this person is different than himself, but he's also trying to get to know them. Hence "The key turns to find the locks have changed The EMF song "Unbelievable" samples the raunchy comic Andrew Dice Clay saying, "What the f--k was that!". Next stanza talks about a house on fire and locks changing. Ten days after Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, Springsteen dedicated … We've Got Tonight 1 interpretation; 1980. The colors stray to black and gray" The boy is far away from the girl because of some commitment he made, a duty he had to fulfill. Be the first! Well first I think it is a love/sad song. That's just my political take on the song. (function() { A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs, Springsteen wrote this as a love song to his second wife, Patti, who he married in 1989. So kiss me and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me Hold me like you'll never let me go 'Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again Oh, babe, I hate to go There's so many times I've let you down, so many times I've played around I … I'm not sure what the black door represents but basically that was the final verdict that he couldn't leave. He is growing desperate. I think its a soldier writing to his family while hes across seas. A sound that to this day I can't forget" But somehow get in over my head Do you see the world in different colours? I think it's about a soldier who is fighting in a war, and before he goes off to fight he ask's his girlfriend or wife to wait for them. While a "good" group of people calls out to America to come back the "good" people trapped in America are calling out to the others "wait for me". 'The ocean is wider than I first guessed' means it (marriage) is gonna be hard than he thought. Refers to domestic issues a house on fire coud be a house thats arguing all the time and a tangled web coud be a problem thant cant be sulved. 'Deep breath I'm taking' means that even though it’s tough he's gonna try. So are we. im sorry for the way my had me fight. A sound that to this day I can't forget He gave it the working title of "The Whisper Song," after a 2005 Ying Yang Twins hit. He can never forget how close he was, and now he's in the same situation as the person he wanted to be with. The election is over and this is for Bill. He's afraid to be opening his front door, just to see that it's locked and he's not allowed in. "Do you see the world in different colors? Personally, I think this song deals heavily with PTSD. -He want's to get closer to the person but it'll take time, thus " wait for me ", and in saying to take off the crown, the crown could represent a difference in level, like romeo and juliet where juliet was considered not to stoop as low as Romeo. This might be true, but then again, this man could also be a spy, a businessman, or just a teenager who had to commit to some after school activity. Which I think he is doing in this song. Hes asking for his family to wait for him to come home and not give up hope. It's about them explaining how lost and caught up in the military's system they've become and that times have changed as have the ways of the military and that all their dreams of what fighting for their country should have been like have failed them or have been lost. She'll come to me in a dream And I don't even know her name A pretty mark upon her breast To signify her from the rest But her and I are just the same Building bridges outta fame She stands upon a dinner plate And tells me that I'll have to wait (Oooh, Wait for me) I know it won't be easy What a thing To believe In a dream Perhaps I knew her long ago I wrote her poems at nine … I think it has less to do with human relationships and more about how screwed up our country is. He mentions a key, which I assume is a contract he made with the military and now the locks have changed meaning they changed the rules and now he cant leave. Song meanings ©2003-2020 lyricinterpretations.com. adunit_id: 100001411, In the end, he keeps pleading her to always wait for him, wait for him, wait for him. A sound that to this day I can't forget" I think this is something that's going on in his head and can be interpreted in many different ways, there's only one way to him, and only he knows that...take it how it means to you...but don't interpret what hes trying to say to you cuz its nothing, it's only for himself. so … The key turns to find the locks have changed Have stood where you stand, where you stand today Some of these lyrics are wrong) - this is his fight, his struggle to make it home alive. He kept asking "how long can you wait for me now?" 'When roads disappear, I'll follow the rivers' when on a road you know where you’re going or if you don’t know where, you still know you’re going somewhere; when following a river its mostly hope because a river could lead somewhere but it might not. I've stood where you stand." I stood were you stand,but how can you wait for me. artist: "Moby", artist: "Rise Against", He called it, "One of my best songs about the dedication to one another that comes with love. div_id: "cf_async_" + Math.floor((Math.random() * 999999999)) The "Don't Stop Believin'" resurgence started when the Journey song was used in a roller skating scene of the 2003 movie Monster. I think this is also where he and the girls meets their mind, as they both "see the world in different colors". He says how he promised before that he would come home safe but now he realizes how far he is and how hard it is to get out. He pleads her to wait for him still. In time to hear the back door slam Charlotte was established in the LA punk scene when a freaky girl named Belinda approached her wearing a garbage bag. Bowie's "activist" days of 1964 led to Ziggy Stardust. He could have not been able to escape out the front door in time, and then someone leaves through the back door during this chaotic time. Sting wrote "Fields of Gold" after buying a house near a barley field and enjoying the majestic sunsets.