Spring
Knights and Merchants Lyrics
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For the glistening ground
Walls of rain and sparkling beams
Smell of earth all around
Moss on the stone
Ferns in the light
Watchful eyes and a world of sound
Spring came and I turned
The land into glimmering fields
Earth and wheat and dancing rain
Hammer strikes and denting wheels
Dew on the grass
Hands in the dirt
Dogs running 'round
I could get used to this
I run, I run, I run, I wander on
My muscles yearning
It all keeps turning
I run, I run, I run, I wander on
A living, breathing dream
In blue and grey and green
Oh, I wander on
I wander on
Spring came and I left this Earth
For an innocent world
Leaves and limbs and roots
And spores aching deep in my lungs
See her breath, see her spin
See her rivers and veins
Feel her wild in your bones,
Lusting as it rains
I run, I run, I run, I wander on
My muscles yearning
It all keeps turning
I run, I run, I run, I wander on
A living, breathing dream
In blue and grey and green
I wander on
I run
I wander on
I run
It all keeps turning
Oh, I run
I run, I run, I run
The lyrics of Knights and Merchants' song Spring are an interpretation of the poem "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins. The song is a dialogue between two people, one who is experiencing grief and the other offering words of consolation. The singer, presumably a younger person, addresses Margaret and asks if she is grieving over the leaves falling from the trees at Goldengrove. The second speaker acknowledges that it is a natural cycle and that the younger one can appreciate it for what it is. However, the older person recognizes that as one grows older, they become desensitized to such things and that same appreciation fades.
The older person acknowledges that even though no words or expressions can convey what Margaret has heard, the grief she feels is valid. The final line of the song speaks to the universality of sorrow, as it is something that every person experiences. The song encourages the listener to not be ashamed or afraid to feel sadness and to recognize that it is a part of the human experience.
Line by Line Meaning
Margaret, are you grieving
Margaret, are you feeling sad or regretful
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Over the leaves falling from the trees of Goldengrove?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
Leaves, like the things that concern mankind, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Can you care for these things with your youthful perspective?
Ah! As the heart grows older
As people age and mature emotionally
It will come to such sights colder
They will become less sensitive to certain emotional experiences
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Eventually, they won't even react emotionally to it
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
Even if the world is full of dead leaves and desolation;
And yet you wall weep and know why.
And even though you might cry, you still have an understanding of why you are crying.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Now, it doesn't matter, child, what the specific cause of the sadness is:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
All sadness comes from the same place.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
Nobody could put their own sadness into words, either with their mouth or thoughts
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
The heart experiences emotions that even ghosts can understand, but it's still difficult to express
It is the blight man was born for,
Sadness is something inherent in the human experience,
It is Margaret you mourn for.
So you're crying because of Margaret.
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