Tearing Down This Place
Unraveling Love's Ruins
Lyrics
Knock it down, take it away
Expressing the need to demolish or remove something.
We've got work tearing down this place
Acknowledging the task of tearing down a physical or metaphorical place.
Take it away, take it away, take it away
Emphasizing the urgency of removing the mentioned entity.
Here's the room where they lay awake
Describing a room where someone stayed awake.
Through a complicated night
Highlighting a complex or difficult night.
He was staring at the wall
Depicting a person staring at a wall, possibly in contemplation.
And she cried and cried and cried
Indicating emotional distress with someone crying repeatedly.
Under a roof that held the real rain out
Referring to a shelter that protected from real rain and masked external noise.
And covered up the sound
Suggesting the concealment of true emotions or troubles.
He built her every wall
Attributing the construction of emotional barriers to one person.
And we have to tear it down
Recognizing the necessity to dismantle the emotional walls built.
Knock it down, take it away
Reiterating the need to demolish or remove something.
We've got work tearing down this place
Acknowledging the ongoing effort to tear down the mentioned place.
Built for a ghost, haunted by love, left to decay
Describing the place as constructed for a presence that is no longer there, haunted by love but abandoned.
Knock it down, take it away
Reiterating the need to demolish or remove something.
We've got work tearing down this place
Acknowledging the ongoing effort to tear down the mentioned place.
Take it away, take it away, take it away
Emphasizing the urgency of removing the mentioned entity.
Here's the door he would walk right out
Pointing to a door where someone would leave on an uncertain night.
On an undecided night
Describing a night marked by indecision or ambiguity.
He was spelling out her name
Illustrating an individual writing the name of another under artificial lights.
In the artificial lights
Suggesting an artificial or insincere atmosphere.
Through this window she could see her man
Describing a view through a window where someone observes their partner in town.
Staring at the town
Depicting a person staring at the town, possibly in contemplation.
He built her every wall
Attributing the construction of emotional barriers to one person.
And we have to tear it down
Recognizing the necessity to dismantle the emotional walls built.
Knock it down, take it away
Reiterating the need to demolish or remove something.
We've got work tearing down this place
Acknowledging the ongoing effort to tear down the mentioned place.
Built for a ghost, haunted by love, left to decay
Describing the place as constructed for a presence that is no longer there, haunted by love but abandoned.
Knock it down, take it away
Reiterating the need to demolish or remove something.
We've got work tearing down this place
Acknowledging the ongoing effort to tear down the mentioned place.
Take it away, take it away, take it away
Emphasizing the urgency of removing the mentioned entity.
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