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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Premiered May 21, 2019 ^^
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Trust the Lumineers to come up with cinematic masterpieces that end in 3 odd minutes but end up saying so much.
Gloria is apparently a character inspired from one of the band members' relatives who suffered from alcoholism. And the struggle of an addict is portrayed so wonderfully here, my heart couldn't help but break for her. I think the song suggests that Gloria didn't have a very healthy relationship with her mother, Donna which lead to her having a difficult childhood. Her mother was probably a single parent as well (she died at 63 while the father died at 43). But now that Gloria is a mother herself, and she can see her baby crying the same way as herself in the flashbacks, she can see her repeating her mother's actions and maybe understands her struggles better. Maybe Gloria didn't receive a lot of love from her mother ("You told your daughter she was ordinary") and now her baby boy (Junior) feels abandonment too. Gloria might be able to forgive her mother in the present, but she can't forgive herself for never repairing her relationship with her mother, it's the guilt of this and her addiction that keeps her up at night and motivates her to run out in the field. The field is also where she runs back to after the accident in 'Gloria' so it could also be a foreshadowing of the guilt that is to follow.
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"And if you leave, don't leave me all alone. 'Cause I'll be scared, I'll be naked, I'll be cold"
- Life in the City
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LYRICS:
It's not the words you say but how you say it
I saved a picture where your hair was braided
They found your wallet in the cemetery
You told your daughter she was ordinary
You hate the name Junior
Your husband loved his computers
Your mother never was one
The eldest of 7 children
If you don't have it then you'll never give in
And I don't blame you for the way you're living
A little boy was born in February
You couldn't sober up to hold a baby
You hate the name Donna
You love to judge strangers' karma
You drove from New Jersey
The trucks always made you worry
Hold my hand now, time to
Go to bed, it's way too late
You hate the name Donna
You love to judge strangers' karma
You drove from New Jersey
The trucks always made you worry
We raised a saint daughter
You love to judge strangers' karma
You're praying for a funeral
You sang it like Hallelujah
You sang it like Hallelujah
You sang it like Hallelujah
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Her eyes are so pained. Their videos live out many people's greatest fears and a sad, seemingly irreversible reality for many- a life full of regrets, loss and second bests. It's haunting how so many decisions that we make change the course of our lives for as long as it lasts. Some things can't be undone and the scars are always there and we are inevitably never the same. Sometimes we aren't all we hoped we'd be when we were young and had the world at our feet. Life is disappointing. It can also be painfully beautiful especially if you feel things very deeply. However the sad truth that most people come to realise is that no matter how desperately you may sometimes want something, or someone, the universe doesnt always work in your favour. You live the rest of your life, filling the void and hoping that one day things will get better. Acceptance is a small, quiet room. It is essential to survival.
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This song reminds me of a time when I was younger, my grandma had bought a new house so my mom woke me up very early to go move stuff out of her old house to be taken to the new house. It was the first time I had ever set foot in her attic and there were so many books and antiques and stuff from before I my existence was ever even thought of, and the way the morning sun shined through her window was immaculate and it made me realize how precious everything really is in this life that we do often take for granted
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@trying2b
4 years ago
The Lumineers: Breaking our hearts and putting them back together with every song since 2012
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