Dancing in a Puddle of Mud
Echoes of Lost Love: Dancing in a Puddle of Mud by Steinar Ytrehus
Lyrics
13 birds on the rooftop
There are 13 birds on the rooftop.
Somebody take them down
Someone should remove the birds.
I can hear a dog barking
The sound of a dog barking is audible.
On the red side of Judas town
In the area associated with betrayal and deceit.
I always keep my motor running
The singer keeps themselves prepared and active.
so I don't waste more time
To avoid wasting time.
It feels like standing in a puddle of mud
The situation feels unpleasant, akin to standing in a messy, difficult situation.
On a green old pine-tree
There's a reference to a green pine-tree.
Once you wrote her name
Someone wrote a person's name on the tree.
I did see all your smiles your knife
The singer observed both happiness and harm caused by the person.
and the shirt with the red blood stains
Reference to a shirt stained with blood.
She used to wash your dirty hands
The person used to clean someone's hands.
You smelled of diesel and coal
A distinct smell of diesel and coal was associated with someone.
Now you are walking in a puddle of mud
The person is now facing difficulties or hardship.
I dug a hole in your backyard
The singer dug a hole in the person's backyard.
I had been digging for days
Spent multiple days digging.
But I found nothing
Found nothing except an old guitar.
but that old guitar that you used to play
The person used to play that guitar.
You played it every evening
The guitar was often played in the evenings.
Those sweet love songs
Those songs were about love.
Now you are playing with a broken bone
The person is now dealing with brokenness.
I have a room with no gravity
A room exists where gravity doesn't affect things.
Where you can float around
Allows floating around.
And when you go there
There's silence in that room.
You will never ever hear a sound
A sense that things are deteriorating or going downhill.
And we all know where it's going
The situation is worsening.
it's going down the drain
It's metaphorically heading toward failure or loss.
It feels like running, in the pouring rain
The feeling of running in heavy rain.
You never know when she is listening
The unpredictability of someone's presence or attention.
You never know when she is around
Uncertainty about someone's proximity.
You can just feel the shivers
A sense of physical response when that person affects you.
and the heat when she takes you down
Physical sensations of both cold and heat.
I always keep my motor running
The singer keeps themselves active, even if wasteful.
Just to waste some fuel
Metaphorically, the singer is now in a challenging situation.
And now I'm riding on a sick old mule
Currently, facing a difficult situation.
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