Sean
Belfast's Tale: Love, Loss, and Unspoken Pain
Lyrics
There's a Belfast girl I loved and lost
Reflects on a lost love from Belfast.
On the rolling hills around my home
Refers to the landscapes around the narrator's home.
Now she stays home nights behind locked doors
Indicates the girl staying indoors due to fear or trauma after someone was stopped by a plastic bullet.
Since a plastic bullet stopped him
Suggests the death or absence of someone important to the girl due to a plastic bullet.
And he don't come no more
Emphasizes the absence of the person who no longer visits.
There's a Belfast boy was loved and lost
Another person, a boy from Belfast, who experienced loss in his hometown.
On the crowded streets of his own home town
Describes the bustling streets where the boy faced his loss.
Pepper my heart with a lover's words
Desires affectionate words from a lover.
And I'll pepper yours with a Gatlin gun
Implies a response of harshness or violence if affection is not reciprocated.
Mother my heart is full of lead
Expresses emotional heaviness and numbness.
And it weighs me down and I just can't cry
Feeling burdened emotionally to the point of being unable to cry.
Remember me to schoolboy friends
Requests honest storytelling about the narrator's past to school friends.
And tell it as it was, please try
Asks for an accurate depiction of their past experiences.
So come by my boy and sit you down
Invites someone to listen to a story that needs to be shared.
There's a tale to hear, a tale to tell this town
Highlights the importance of a tale that needs to be told.
You say the devil will get me some day
Acknowledges a belief in an impending fate or consequence.
You can tell him I'm waiting
Asserts readiness to face whatever comes.
Cause these are the things I must say
Expresses the necessity of sharing certain thoughts or feelings.
Mother my heart is full of lead
Reiterates the emotional heaviness in the narrator's heart.
And life holds few surprises too
Comments on the lack of surprises in life, possibly due to the emotional weight.
Tell that to the little ones
Advises passing on life's realities to younger ones before they become cynical.
Before they learn to laugh at you
Warns against losing innocence and becoming disillusioned.
Mother my heart is full of lead
Repeats the emotional burden of the heart.
And it weighs me down and I just can't cry
Reiterates the inability to express emotions through tears.
Remember me to schoolboy friends
Requests honest storytelling about the past once more.
And tell it as it was, please try
Asks for truthful retelling of personal experiences.
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