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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Lily was a young girl who was kept inside by her parents/family. Lily had always wanted to explore the world but her family would not let her, so she would go out/run away on her own. Then she met a (?) stranger(s)/kidnapper(s) who tried to persuade her to accompany them (?) ("follow everywhere I go top over the mountains or valley low") with everything Lily desired ("give you everything you've been dreaming of"). Lily initially believed that they would give her whatever she wanted, but she soon realized what they were doing and fled, calling for help ("she knew she was hypnotized..."). I don't understand what the song meant by "just let me in" but I think it was an add-on to enrich the lyrics.
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I think that if you see figurative then it could be about depression and the creature is actually death and it is trying to convince Lily to kill herself which I think she does that's why the song ends do abruptly. Also notice the use of "was" in the first stanza: Lily was a little girl.
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I believe Lily is her own safe side and control, hence the castle is her control of the environment. But she gets curious and leaves the safety of the her familiar environment and founds herself in a strange new place (the woods is often viewed as a mysterious and dangerous place). Either herself or her parents tell her not to leave but she peruses the satisfaction of knowing what’s out there. The creature is actually her wild and more dangerous side, a side with less or in this case no control. She falls victim to her own spell and eventually breaks it, like how ice gives suddenly to the immense pressure. She stops herself before doing something reckless and stupid (you can interpret what situation this was. Ex: A risky relationship, jumping off a cliff)This side of her is hidden away and remained unknown from her until this point, but wasn’t able to resist knowing what it could show her. She then literally asks for help in an urgent manner but now she can’t quiet the voice inside her. We don’t know if she falls victim again, but there is still more here. The wild side of her assumed everything would turn out ok and was left unsatisfied when she chickened out. I hope this can broaden your horizons on this song. And remember the artists that wrote this song may have created multiple meanings, so don’t be afraid to experiment with your own ideas
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I think that it's about trying to get away from the monsters that poison your life without becoming the monsters.
Maybe lily has really bad anxiety and she's afraid to make a friend. one day she tries to and the friend she makes is toxic and mean. and for a while Lily just thinks that that's how friendship is but then she realizes that this is not a good friend and she tries to get away and make new friends, but she's already contaminated and no one wants to be her friend because she doesn't know how to be a good one -
This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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Lily is a girl who has benn sheltered all her life and when she finally gets out into the real world she does not know how it feels so she gets scared and runs away crying help because her parents always came to her rescue but they are not there so they cant help her.
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My interpretation is that a demon keeps trying to get access through humans to get time to be apart of there temple. I know alot about demons and all of you who listen to that song are in for it even I am. We have all gave access to something spiritual. Whoever made that song knew exactly what they were doing. Demons have mind control so it's no surprise she was hypnotized. Everyone on Earth needs to wake up and learn about what's out there. Remember life and death are in the tongue. Do not let anyone in that knocks on your heart. The chosen will know what I'm talking about. Goodluck to all. Remember don't say or challenge Satan or any God. That's all they need to hurt you.
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I think Lily is a girl in the castle that wanted to go out of the castle and see more but her parents warned her to stay but she did not listen so when the sun set she went out into the woods and saw a creature that said that she could trust him so then she did and then when it says walking on the thin cold ice means she knows somethings wrong and so she tries to escape but she keeps hearing the creature say she can trust it.
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I think it's about abusive relationships and domestic violence of hasband and wife.
lily was sheltered all her life by her family so when she grow up she met a Prince who enchanted her easily, because she didn't know anything about outside world. Then one day she got tired of being mistreated and abused by her husband, and tried to ran away from him. But he started begging not to leave him and promised to change and become the Prince Charmed he was before, so she was enchented by him again and stayed. After some time abuse started again and she decided to break down this time for sure, but her husband started begging her again and everything repeated. Singer lets the listeners to think on their own what will happen to Lilly will she ever be free or get stuck in this. -
My interpretation:
I think it might be captivity. And how Lily is so sick of having helicopter-parents. Always so protective and always wants her to stay inside the castle walls. Then one day, lily runs away into the woods, and the people (most likely referring
to her parents) told her not to go, but failed. While at the forest, lily sees creatures roaming. One tells her “follow everywhere I go, over the top mountains and valley low” Lily forms a bond with the creature. Not knowing what the creature could do. So they go on adventures (Top mountains & valley low) Then the creature hypnotises Lily, making her obsessed with being out in the “big wide world”
She ends up far away from her castle walls, on ice, and the curse breaks. When she realises what the creature did, she tries to run, but can still hear the creature catching up, still saying what they said before.
And then she tries screaming for help, and doesn’t get none, so then she ends up going into a never-ending loop of running.
But this is just my opinion, pretty sure you all can think of something less cheesy -
I think Lily is a little girl who does not want to live inside castle walls. The other people tryed to warn her but failed and she ran off. After a monster tryed to trick her into following him, but lily knew she was hypnotized and called for help.
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I think it's about a little girl who is kept away from the outside world but one night she gets out and runs into the woods and finds a monster the monster makes her follow him through the woods and the spell breaks and she calls for help
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A hallucination. She was scared, alone, lost and new to the world. Ain't it suspicious that the.. thing came when she was thinking of people warning her about monsters?
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Here's my two (possibly ill-concieved) cents:
There are many different ways you can interpret this (trafficking, drugs, relationship, mental issues) but the general idea seems to be one person/thing (say the monster) taking advantage of another person (say lily) and when lily finds this out she tries to escape but the monster invokes fear in her and does not let her escape. -
Well I think it is about a girl named lily and her parents told hr not to go outside i think its like tangled but at last means "walking in the cold thin ice" would be like she had guts about the relationship and then she knew that he was just using her or kidnaping and then she ran out again and was begging for help
Hope you like the explanation
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