Square Lyrics

[Patricia]

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Here to talk about Baek Yerin's "Square" since this song and its lyrics hold a very special place in my heart. I really love the lyrics of this song for but i saw a youtube comment saying it was a bit off, so again I'm here to talk about it.

Let's interpret this song as Yerin being in her own "Square" kind of like her being confined in her own bubble, this will be connected to my own explanation throughout the song and will give a clearer picture to what I'm talking about.

Throughout the verses Yerin explains how she has a very complex personality and the person she's pertaining to in the song can sometimes hurt her without noticing and not sense right through how she truly was due to her complex personality sometimes being indecipherable.

For the last lines in each verse I'd like to think they are metaphors of how she feels, the last line in verse 1 "I'm so so broke like, someone just robbed me" is a metaphor to how she has no one that can understand her in a deeper level.

For verse 2 the last line is "Was so so strange like, someone never loved me" it is connected to the line before it which is "You are gripping me without noticing was so so strange like someone never loved me". This is again, a metaphor (this part is a bit confusing to understand even for me) in which the person she pertains to in the song has a hold on her (I think the "grip" she mentioned also has something to do with love) to the point where she feels like no one has ever done this before.

The chorus is what the person is telling her everytimes she's going through her phases/stages of being "Blue". This part of the song is actually really cute and sweet for me, especially since the person actually knows what how to comfort Yerin when she's going through such times.

The Bridge is the part that I truly love. This is the part where she embraces and acknowledges the person, even though the person still truly doesnt understand her it's clear that they are trying their best. "You're the only one who saw my yesterday, thr one who knows I'm here alive today" is actually so powerful since even though she's in her own "Square", the person is the only one trying to get in and truly know what she feels, therefore the person is the only one who knows what she's going through and the only one who also always knows that she's still here. The last lines for this part are also really cute since she even asks for the comfort of the person and to say what she really means to that person.

That's about it I hope you understood my interpretation, the lyrics of this song is mostly seperated from the other lyrics that it links to so by linking them you can have a better understanding to it. I'll include the lyrics below for good measure.

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Mumford & Sons's new album Wilder Mind is officially out! And the first song on the album is "Tompkins Square Park." The song is almost upbeat compared to the early releases, but it slowly mellows out just like the relationship being sung about.

"Tompkins Square Park" is about a relationship that ends in Tompkins Square Park in New York City, the site, according to Wikipedia, of numerous riots over the past 150 years. The park served as a gathering place for artists (Allen Ginsberg lived nearby during the 1988 riots), bohemians, and the homeless. Due to gentrification, the park has lost some of its artsy vibe, but its legacy serves well as a backdrop for the difficult subject of Mumford & Sons's new song.

The lyrics are fairly straightforward, but their implications are important for millennials. The song is about a relationship that Mumford feels is doomed to failure; the line "No flame burns forever" serves as a summary of what the song is about. Mumford and his romantic interest meet in the park and bemoan the fact that their romantic love for each other will never last.

Tompkins Square Park is the perfect symbolic location because it served as the location for riots in 1874 and 1988, and Mumford's relationship, also, is in a similar state of upheaval. He plans to invite her to Tompkins Square Park to reminisce and end the relationship, an action fitting with the painful history of the park.

In verse 1, he sings, "Oh, babe, meet me in Tompkins Square Park / I wanna hold you in the dark / One last time / Just one last time." This could be sexual or merely affectionate. And because the park (at least today-Monday) is only open until 5PM, this meeting will be sneaky and possibly risky.

He continues, "Oh, and, oh, babe, can you tell what's on my tongue? / Can you guess that I'll be gone? / With the twilight." Mumford letting this girl go is just on the "tip of his tongue." By morning, he will leave her in the park. Whether they will be talking or having sex until then is unexplained.

The central sentiment of the song comes in hook 1 when he sings, "But no flame burns forever, oh, no / You and I both know this all too well / And most don't even last the night." Mumford and the woman may have been used to relationships not working out, so they are willing to let this relationship go as well, assuming that it won't work. Relationships that "don't even last the night," could be a reference to contemporary hook-up culture and one night stands. Even still, there is a little bit of doubt in Mumford's mind when he sings, "they say they don't [last more than one night]," suggesting that he may only be living out a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In verse 2, Mumford sings that he just wants to "hear [her] lie / One last time." He doesn't say what the lie is, but since they are in a romantic relationship, the lie is likely, "I love you," a difficult thing to hear if one knows that it is a lie. But Mumford wishes to hear it anyway. And he's told the lie himself: "I only ever told you one lie / When it could have been a thousand / It might as well have been a thousand." Because the sentence "I love you," is so powerful, he might as well have lied so many more times because the consequences of this particular lie will be devastating to both of them.

In the bridge, Mumford explains his point-of-view: "I never tried to trick you babe / I just tried to work it out." His way of working it out seems to have been believing that he loved her and talking with her. Unfortunately, he couldn't convince himself, and sings, "But I was swallowed up by doubt." He was too unsure of himself and his own intentions.

His final lament enhances his unsureness: "If only things were black and white / Cause I just want to hold you tight / Without holding back my mind." He doesn't understand the situation, but he knows that he does want to hold her. He claims to feel affection for her, but for him to show that affection, he has to hold "back [his] mind." This suggests that he is attracted to her but that logic and reason suggest that they are not good for each other. It could also mean that the complications of the situation and relationship are too much for him, and even though he feels love for her, it's too complicated and difficult.

Would the last two generations, those 35+ years old, have ever told a story like Mumford's song? Were they ever confused about being in love? If so, they've done a good job of hiding it. Unfortunately, thoughtful, mournful songs about lost love are far more prevalent with millennial songwriters.

The confusion that Mumford (age 28) and other young people may experience is due partially to growing up in a postmodern society. Postmodernism, as a theory of philosophy and art, holds that truth is difficult to know, proposes disregarding authority, and encourages the questioning of everything.

Thus, someone born in the late 80's (or after) asking a question like "What is love?" is not surprising. They may want a concrete clear explanation, but it's nearly impossible to full describe. And because falling in love is a subjective experience, it's even harder for young postmoderns to know when it's happening to them.

Mumford seems to be experiencing this millennial struggle. Love isn't "black and white" for him; he wants to understand but can't. "Tompkins Square Park" showcases this struggle and appropriately ends with him singing that "no flame burns forever, oh, no / You and I both know this all too well / And most don't even last the night."

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