​mewithoutYou - Torches Together [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Intro]
Why burn poor and lonely under a bowl or under a lampshade
Or on the shelf beside the bed
Where at night you lay turning like a door on its hinges?
First on your left side, then on your right side... then your left side again
Why burn poor and lonely?
Tell all the stones we're gonna make a building
We'll be cut into shape and set into place
Or if you'd rather be a window, I'll gladly be the frame
Reflecting any kind words, we'll let in all their blame
And ruin our reputation all the same
So never mind our plan making, we'll start living
Anyway, aren't you unbearably sad?
Then why burn so poor and lonely?

[Bridge]
We'll be like torches!
We'll be like torches!
We'll be like torches... OH!!
We'll be torches together... TORCHES TOGETHER!!
We'll be like torches!
We'll be like torches... with whatever respect our tattered dignity demands
Torches together... hand in hand

[Verse]
Why pluck one string... what good is just one note?
Oh, one string sounds fine, I guess... but we were once 'one notes'
We were lonely wheat quietly ground into grain
What light and momentary pain!
So why the safe distance, this curious look?
Why tear out single pages when you can throw away the book?
Why pluck one string when you can strum the guitar?
Strum the guitar!
Strum the guitar!
Strum the guitar... with no beginning, with no end
Take down the guitar and strum the guitar!
Strum the guitar if you're afraid
And I'm afraid and everyone's afraid and everyone knows it
But we don't have to be afraid anymore

[Outro]
You played the flute, but no one was dancing
You sang a sad song... but none of us cried
You played the flute, but no one was dancing
And you sang a sad song, and none of us cried
You played the flute, but no one was dancing
You sang a sad song... but none of us cried
You played the flute, but no one was dancing
And you sang a sad song... you sang such a sad song