Too Many Weddings
Atticus Finch Lyrics


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Too many weddings to live between
Too many weddings, I'm dizzy with deciding
It's the way you look at me
When we receive
The calligraphy
The prophecy
The postman brings too many weddings
It's the way you look at me when you choose your earrings




When for your shoulders falls the shawl of your mending
Too many weddings (3x)

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Atticus Finch's song, 'Too Many Weddings' seem to describe the overwhelming emotions one can feel when attending too many weddings. The sheer number of weddings that the singer has to attend has left them feeling dizzy and uncertain. They are torn between deciding which wedding to go to and which to skip. The opening line, "Too many weddings to live between" expresses how the singer is almost suffocating and struggling to keep up with it all.


The chorus talks about how the way the singer's partner looks at them when they receive the wedding invitations brings back memories of past weddings and emphasizes their overwhelming feeling. The mention of calligraphy, prophecy and the postman portrays the formal nature of weddings and how invitations and save-the-date cards are an important part of the process.


The second verse vividly describes the detailed preparation that goes into attending a wedding, from choosing the right earrings to wearing a shawl while mending one's dress. The term "mending" could refer to what needs to be repaired physically or mentally to look one's best at the weddings. Overall, the lyrics of 'Too Many Weddings' is intrinsic to social obligation, planning, and decision-making related to the many weddings one may have to attend.


Line by Line Meaning

Too many weddings to live between
There are too many weddings happening in close proximity and I can't keep up with them all.


Too many weddings, I'm dizzy with deciding
The overwhelming number of weddings is making it hard to decide which to attend or participate in.


It's the way you look at me
Your gaze towards me communicates love, affection, and desire.


When we receive
When we receive invitations for these weddings.


The calligraphy
The beautiful penmanship and style of the invitations.


The prophecy
The feeling that these weddings may not end well, and may even spell trouble for those involved.


The postman brings too many weddings
The postman keeps bringing invitations to weddings, adding to the already overwhelming workload on our shoulders.


It's the way you look at me when you choose your earrings
You look at me with passion and admiration when you're trying to decide which earrings to wear for a wedding.


When for your shoulders falls the shawl of your mending
You look stunning when the shawl falls over your shoulders, but it's a reminder of the need to mend and repair relationships affected by these weddings.


Too many weddings (3x)
The repetition of this line emphasizes the chaos and overwhelming nature of attending or participating in multiple weddings at once.




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@preston54joker

go set a watchman was written first. then Harper Lee wrote To kill a mockingbird..... people need to know the facts before they cry about "tainting a character".

@excon4476

Abcd EF if you actually looked into it, the script for go set a watchman was written before TKAM

@dzekog9626

@@randomgaming8616 released does not equal written. go set a watchman was the original manuscript. likely, Harper Lee never planned on publishing it (why would anyone publish a first draft?) and that's why it took so many years until it was rediscovered. knowing this and knowing that the original manuscript is obviously more flawed than the more devolped 'actual' novel, it is actually quite fascinating although I personally won't read go set a watchman

@killshot652

@@randomgaming8616 Go Set A Watchman was written in the mid-1950s, not in 2015.

@dunkcsa9780

Doesn't matter if it was written first or not, Watchman was not finished when it was published right around the time she passed away. I know because I'm from Monroeville and I knew her and know members of her family and I remember the big controversy we all heard around town when it was published. It was basically a scheme to make money by capitalizing on her failing health and the fact that Mockingbird is so famous, pretty despicable if you ask me, sweet Ms. Nell deserved better than that.

@Marcel_Audubon

a woman with dementia is taken advantage of and instead of an arrest for elder abuse, we get this half baked novel

@liabell7405

Atticus meant it when he said he wanted Jem and Scout to forget the Finch line. It's stated right in the book, "To Kill a Mocking bird." Atticus was only doing what he wanted. Both he and his brother had planned it all long. Heck, that's why Uncle Jack told Scout to come to him when she couldn't stand it any longer. Basically when she couldn't stand that Atticus and her family had changed. the whole point of it was to get her to realize she was different and Maycomb needed that different. The different was to change the way society was. Atticus knew that it would bother her. He taught her to not be racist. He changed to show her who she actually was. She was the Jean Louise Finch that was different. Not her father's shadow. The whole point of this scheme was to get her to realize that. Atticus isn't racist. He only became racist to get to her to open up to who she was. It was his way of opening her conscience and finally get her to stop following after everything he did. It's stated clearly that he was her idol and the whole point of doing what he did was to make her realize that and become her own person. Not Atticus the second. That's also why the quote "Every man's island, Jean Louise, Every man's Watchman, is his conscience." It was the finishing of Scouts character development in a sort a way. I hope someone understands what I'm saying. it makes sense in my mind but probably doesn't sound grammatically correct.

@amruthaj4262

Hmm I haven't read the book "Go set a watchman" yet because of the critics and the review, but I've just finished reading "How to kill a mockingbird" and it would be glad for me if the book"Go set a watchman" is the way that you say.

@dreamabouchat5338

Lia Bell I get you. Very well said.

@averayugen1371

Did Atticus become racist or do a staged wise-fatherly "as if" act to teach the daughter tolerance? She learned in in "Mockingbird" though..also haven't read it yet

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