Alan Walker: Lily Meaning
Lily Lyrics
Afraid of the big, wide world
She grew up within her castle walls
Now and then she tried to run
And then on the night with the setting sun
She went in the woods away
So afraid, all alone
They warned her, don't go...
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I think as she grows she runs and the devil tries to make her go with him but she runs away from him but he finds lily again then he tries to give here every thing she wants but she runs and makes it back home and the meaning of [lily was a little girl] means she grew up.
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So for me what I see is the woman who just started a music career, it's was so innocent because she loved the music, then one day some producer introduces her to the 'game' and she is promised firm and fortune. She gets caught up in that and only realised that she had gotten involved in rituals and doing drugs. At that point she wants to leave but the hold on her is greater.
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Okay so my interpretation is that "Lily" is a girl which is over protected by her parents making her meet no friends or people outside. Then one day when she realized that she needs to know the outside world she secretly sneaked outside. Then when the lyrics said that something came creeping that is like a man or "someone" who wants to be friends with Lily (give you everything you've been dreaming of which is to have friends or experience a life a normal kid or teen have) but then said just let me in which I guess he wants to rape Lily or something like that....... then Lily died that's why at the first stanza it said "Lily WAS a little girl"
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I think Lily was a fairy tale princess that wanted to escape her castle home and explore the forest. The creature, most likely a demon, had been obsessed with Lily for a long time and when she entered it’s forest, it took a chance to try to kidnap her and bring her to the demon world, where he could have her all to himself. Before she enters the world with him, she finds out what is happening and tries desperately to escape him, and before she escaped, he kills her, and takes her soul to the underworld, erasing her memory from everyone she knew.
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Am I the only one who read this song as to be about a girl who fell victim to an addiction of some sort? I feel this is about a girl who grew up alone probably as an only child and was protected by her parents from the evils of the world. And the line "afraid of the big wide world" suggests how inexperienced and unaware she was about the world's real nature. But one day she escapes the parents' grip no matter how much they warn her, she decides to try going out and experience the world but then "something came creeping". I see this "something" as probably some substance/drug that promised to give her all the happiness and escape from loneliness she was dreaming of. She repeatedly takes it in and becomes addicted but now and then she realizes she needs help to get rid of it she cries out for help but again the desire whispers and she loses this cycle repeats until she is completely swallowed by it and shuts her down...
This is just my personal view no harm, no offence intended in any way.. -
Lily was a young lady who was protected in "the castle walls" and attempted to run away to make her own life then she met a demon, and fell in love with him when he tried to hypnotize her. i feel like since the song didn't say anything about him hurting her, i feel like they loved each other whether hypnotized her not, but then she found out he was a demon and didn't want to be with him anymore or something and tried to run away.
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So lily was a girl sheltered by her parents and ran away when they didn't know I think that the line (they warned her don't go there there's creatures who are hiding in the dark) means that there could possibly be demons and when she was Hypnotized she walked in thin ice and when it broke she realized she had to get out of there she ran and yelled for help but no one was there so the "creature" but her under the spell forever and she was never seen again
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My intupertaion is that lily was always sheltered and when she was Hypnotized when the ice broke she knew she had to get away and started to scream for help but no one came so she was stuck with the demon forever and her parents never saw her again
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i honestly think that it's about a princess named Lily, and when it says, "She grew up inside a castle" means that her parents protected her. But she was probably tired of it so she sneaked out when the sun was setting, and wandered the woods. She then met a creature that said she can trust them, kinda like a kidnapper, and when it hypnotises her, it probably means that she was so interested in them that she couldn't see the bad in them. Then, when the thin ice broke, it could represent her finally seeing the creature's real colors, and she ran, seeking for help, but nobody was there to help her, and so she's running of that monster..
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Personally, I can relate to the song. It was times when I was shielded from what I didn't know about. I was sitting in a protective bubble that my parents built.
Eventually, I stepped out without telling them and began to explore what was forbidden. It was thrilling, enchanting and something very different. Eventually, I realized and felt afraid to lose that innocence that I was so used to. I tried running and hiding to preserve whoever I was before I ventured outside.
But what was lost was lost and before I knew it, I was someone very different from who I was. I was someone who knew what the world was about.
The song probably talks about the phase where you try so hard to sit back into the bubble that you no longer fit into. -
So I think Lily is a little girl and she is very scared of something in her house like some monster under her bed or something And her parents don't believe her and tell her she is safe in the house and in danger outside And she wanted to know if they were true so she ran away against the warnings they gave her and ran into a forest and then she met a creature which she could understand like probably a kitsune or kumiho some kind of dark fox creature which is white with blue markings and glow in the dark and it said {"Follow everywhere I go top over the mountains or valleys low give u everythin' you've been dreamin' of"}So lily followed it and it put her in a trap of cold thin ice after a long journey and with her weight And it broke so she started running away from it and Screamed for the creature to help her and it didnt and it expected her to do it and then she knew it was hypnotizing her with evil intentions and fled away from it and survived by running all her life and the line{"Just Let me In"} Was people asking for her trust or other creatures in the forest and she wouldnt thinking about her old "friend" and maybe it was able to shape shift but it was a demon so she couldnt trust anything . Anyway that's what I think it is
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I think the meaning of the song is that lily has been protected all through her life by her parents. They warned her about the outside world.
She then decided to flee when her parents were caught unaware. Then she met a stranger who promised her alot
And she believed thinking he loved her and then when she found out the thin ice (her living paradise was broken) probably the guy was an abusive partner. She realized it (ice broke n she awoke) means she woke she realized that she was being tricked n went to look for a way out. Then the guy pleaded for her to stay but she didn't listen -
I love drawing anime and I love making comics about music and just silly stories I make up. I really hope that everyone keeps posting their wonderful thoughts about music and a big thank you to everyone for their great Lily ideas I was planning on making a comic about that song but I barely knew what the lyrics meant and now I completely understand so thank you so much for everything.
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