Now They'll Sleep

Lost Heroes and Fading Hearts: Unraveling the Meaning in Belly's Melody
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Lyrics

Now I've lost the plot

Expressing a sense of confusion or disorientation in life.

I'm not the hero I could be

Acknowledging a personal failure to live up to a heroic ideal.

But not the dog I was

Reflecting on a past self, possibly one with more innocence or simplicity.

Kind of common cry

Describing a common emotional expression or lamentation.

Kind of common living lie

Describing a prevalent but false way of living.

Color my fast fading heart

Depicting a heart losing vitality or intensity quickly.

People laugh at anything

Observing a tendency for people to find humor in anything.

And things just fall apart

Expressing a general sense of things falling apart.

Kind of common cry

Reiterating a common emotional expression or lamentation.

Kind of common living lie

Reiterating a prevalent but false way of living.

You know the shape my breath will take before I let it out

Highlighting a familiarity with one's own breathing patterns.

Stand like you did when I was beauty-marked in your eyes

Recalling a time when the speaker was seen as beautiful in someone else's eyes.

Now they'll sleep tonight

Suggesting that others will find peace or rest now.

Mmm

(Instrumental interlude)


Now eyes burn circles in the dark

Describing the impact of emotional pain on the speaker's eyes.

And when the mirror talks to me

Personifying a mirror and its communication with the speaker's heart.

I listen with my heart

Listening to the mirror's message with emotional sensitivity.

Kind of common cry

Reiterating a common emotional expression or lamentation.

Kind of common living lie

Reiterating a prevalent but false way of living.

You know the shape my breath will take before I let it out

Reiterating the familiarity with one's own breathing patterns.

Stand like you did when I was beauty-marked in your eyes

Recalling a time when the speaker was seen as beautiful in someone else's eyes.

You know the shape my breath will take before I let it out

Reiterating the familiarity with one's own breathing patterns.

Stand like you did when I was beauty-marked in your eyes

Recalling a time when the speaker was seen as beautiful in someone else's eyes.

Now they'll sleep alright

Asserting that now others will find peace or rest.

Hmm

(Instrumental interlude)

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