| | Beneath The Balcony Lyrics Artist(Band):Iron & Wine
our last of days and grace the game with a blindfold on the cheaters came to play and outside the soft-handed boys screaming cars and all their speed music, meth, a hero beggin change his sword across his knees and how he prays to find a man to blame for every sleepless night he spends and for every well that he warned me of but wound up falling in and then for the kids beneath the balcony who disregard the rain to make sure the king won't grant the dead man one more day let's go out and see darling what shines tonight and temper your dream about the dying horse with traffic, noise, and light and somewhere the soft-handed boys, bleeding hearts, and worker bees give to the holy mother begging change Christ across her knees and oh how she prays to find a man to blame for every loveless night she waits and for every gun that she frowned upon but still some fucker made and then for the kid beneath the balcony behind the garbage can who waits for the king to come and hold his sweating hand If you find some error in Beneath The Balcony Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Review about Beneath The Balcony social/economic inequality? | Reviewer: Andrew Cone | 12/22/08 I think this song is about social inequality in the US. The point of the song is that disadvantaged people in the US struggle to find a coherent, fair reason their lives are so difficult, and end up clinging to "God and guns." The "game" described in the first few lines is the US market economy, which seemingly let's everyone play. But unfortunately there are "cheaters:" those who are born into privilege or have been lucky or unscrupulous enough to succeed. To "grace the game" is to participate in the systems by which our society metes out power and wealth, thereby granting them legitimacy. The people who do not play the game (or been cheated at it), are left with petty, self-destructive means of actualization. They take meth and race cars because that's all there is that makes them feel alive. The "hero begging change" is the archetypal homeless Vietnam vet who, despite having played the "game" honorably, is left begging for change by the interstate on-ramp. His sword is across his knees in the way a Bible or a prayerbook is across a mourner's knees: it is an abstract anodyne for something that has no satisfactory explanation. The rest of the song follows this theme. The "king" represents the majesty of power, specifically as it is held by things like law enforcement, the military, and the presidency. Beam pictures this king as living in a vast palace, from which he occasionally emerges on his balcony to proclaim stuff. The "kids beneath the balcony" are the downtrodden people who fetishize executive power, so they get at close to the king's balcony as they can. They like it when the king executes the condemned, because it gives them a sense of punishing the "man to blame" for their unhappy states. They wait for the king to shake their sweaty hands, to be graced by his presence. But they are just left to sweat endlessly, perhaps from stress or hard work, because the king has no genuine interest in meeting them. To me, these "kids beneath the balcony" represent the sort of people who are obsessed with rooting out welfare queens, illegal aliens, queers, terrorists, the unpatriotic, or who ever else at whom the king directs our rage. The song pities these "kids" more than it judges them, and this is appropriate. Beneath the Balcony | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/13/08 I love Beam's music. It is beautiful, simple, and amazing in every way. It's hard to believe something so simple can invoke so much emotion. I don't understand what this song is about though. Could someone please explain? Review the song Beneath The Balcony The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "Iron & Wine" Music | |
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