Damien Rice Lyrics

    ------ About the song Volcano performed by Damien Rice

I have two thoughts about this song. The first one: Though it seems like the guy is pushing the girl away, he is actually sacrificing for her sake. He indicated many times that he cares for her like how he doesn't want her hurt and she's still to young to treat.
My second understanding about the song is that their love isn't really true. They're just there for physical attractions and something is always missing. The way the one party sees it, there's only a 'want' but never a 'need'. Either way, I love this song!

    ------ About the song Volcano performed by Damien Rice

i think it's about a man that spokes to a little woman about Impossible love try'n to explain way - Different needs Different point of view Different state of mind.. deep down he's hoping that she would understnad his tThoughts

    ------ About the song Volcano performed by Damien Rice

The song says a lot...so i thought i'd break them in more manageable parts.

1st, the tone: poignant, sad, confused, almost helpless, some element of tugging or push/pull, giving in/giving up, also note the pleading and/or cracked voices. This to me suggests no intention to be mean, or wanting to hurt someone.

2nd, the lyrics: He asks her to not build her wolrd around him because he believes he doesn't deserve her and that he is unable to return - in same measure - that which she already gives to him [miles and miles of mountains or perhaps a lot of understanding?] and how she continues to give despite him asking for more or asking for other things [and i will ask for the sea].

After he mutters this is all he needs [he does not really mean it...he's lying here...this is a bluff...see more on this below], in fact, she expresses disbelief, like she's asking, she's checking...oh, really? Is that all i mean to you? Coz you give me a lot, too [you give me miles and miles of mountains], although unlike him, she is not looking for anything else [she is not asking for the sea like he does].

He asks her to not build her world around him, not because he does not care about her: in fact he does, i.e., in the first sentence he indicates he does not want her to hurt her knees. He does care for her.

However, he is internally turmoiled, and has been for sometime. And that no matter how much she gives, he will go back and forth to being turmoiled [i.e., nothing new...makes me bleed...disease...too young to treat...some condition he has perhaps that he can't get over with?].

Overall, this is kinda sacrificial love on his part: he'd rather set her free or start to condition her to not give him so much love, than hurt her by his recurring 'situation' or whatever it is that he is dealing with internally [this is nothing new...]. He does acknowledge how much she loves him [you give me miles and miles of mountains] but asks her to not build her world around him coz he does not deserve her...
[you do not need me]

The reason why i say he was just lying when he said 'this is all i need' ...is coz he negates this seeming-casual reference he expressed in the first stanza against the utter helplessness he expressed in the last line of the song when he emotionally muttered to her, "you do not need me," i.e., in a cracked voice.

Dang, i just discovered this song, and i love it...

Storm Reverie, 2012-05-10

    ------ About the song Volcano performed by Damien Rice

This is a 17 year old girl in love with a 22 year old sailor. He has kissed her mouth and back and known not to take her all the way. She knows nothing further than school, babysitting, and part time jobs. She is mature for her years, but only as mature as 17 will let her be. She knows nothing of his philandering, and at times, drunken ways. He is a beautiful man. He is all she wants. But he has been out in the world for several years and experienced things she has no knowledge of. The end will come when she realizes even though he has said all the right things and shown her undivided attention, she cannot give him what he wants right now in the moment. She does not know how to be that girl yet. And he is not willing to wait. She will get her heart broken and not understand until much later. I know, because this girl was me.

    ------ About the song Volcano performed by Damien Rice

Philip killed this song on American Idol! The girls mouth is the volcano rim and the kiss on the back is the lava running. A young love is forbidden to build upon and unstable.. Nonetheless brilliant !

    ------ About the song Cheers Darlin' performed by Damien Rice

you look at her. one minute she is just another girl, the next minute she is the heavens and the sky. she is the poetry of your soul. you look.she smiles.
alcohol takes away your ability to feel. to miss her eyes.

    ------ About the song Me, My Yoke And I performed by Damien Rice

This is what Damien said about this song at a concert..
"There's this guy I knew who, when he was young, discovered this thing hanging out of his body. And one day he actually found out what to do with it. He used to feel so guilty about talking to this new friend of his that he used to donate money to charity. Until he got to the point where he didn't have any money to donate anymore."

    ------ About the song Volcano performed by Damien Rice

This song reminds me a lot of my long lost love, and the words he never said.
I was the mountain, i was standing there for him. I was there for him, unchanging. HE feels only quiet love for this little mature girl who tries to understand him and give him all her love. But he wants something else.. The volcano is the passion, the love she feels, that melts her down, consumes her. Both are deeply in love but with other reactions and expectations..
The "miles and miles of mountains" are earth elements of stable relationship, he sees a perfect predictable future with her.. thats why he wants the sea.

    ------ About the song Eskimo performed by Damien Rice

I wonder if anyone has the lyrics and titles to the two songs entwined with Eskimo. There is an acapella re-write of Silent Night and a song that Quotes "Cheers Darlin'" anyone know bout that?

    ------ About the song Me, My Yoke And I performed by Damien Rice

I think this song might be about religion but, DR plays with the meaning of words to create two songs in one, you know.
I don't know anything about him or about his faith but that's what this song makes me think of. & basically, I don't care if this song is about sex or whatever, it's just a powerful song that I like to listen when I'm angry, aha!

But yeah, btw, DR is definitely not french, I am and I would know if France has such musicians!