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 its about a girl who is told about the world being a cruel place. Therefore she is afraid of the outside and stays at home. Then one dag she decides to leave and meets a spirit/creature and it tells her he can take her anywhere she wants but it really wants to take control of her and pretend to be human in the city. And at first she goes with it and it hypnatizez her and finally she awakes from it and tried to escape. But it finds her and it takes control again.
But this is just my guess. -
guys its just about Human Trafficking. the creatures are the traffickers and they tell her about the goods things they will give her and when it says "she knew she was hypnotized" its means she knows the trafficker is going to sell her "then it broke" it means it was too late to go back and she runs and says "please help me come get me" she is trying to call for help "behind her, she could hear it say" the trafficker is chasing her and telling her the good things again.
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I think this is about someone trying to escape the horrible things that happened in the past, isolating herself. (Lily was a little girl afraid of the big wide world she grew up within her castle walls) Then she is dominated by that fear(creature) so she decides to kill herself. Thinking it is the only way to freedom. But she changes her mind (she awoke again) But it was too late to stop it, so she was killed. She says "please help me" desperate, although she knows she won't live.
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This song is about drug addiction. The song set up the character Lily to be afraid of the wide world and have only learn within her walls, never knowing the dangers of the outside world. One day, she sneaked outside the walls during the night and got lost in the woods(outside world) where creatures (drugs) tries to persuade her. The chorus talks about the effect of drugs. (Over the mountain tops or valley low) are the feeling of being on high and being down. Next, the creature(drug) promise everything you "dreamt of" and "being in the magic story" indicate how the drug can affect the mind into escaping from the real world and into fantasy or dream where you have everything. Further into the lyrics, we see that Lily knew she was being hypnotized and was walking on thin ice. This can indicate the timeline that Lily was a regular at that point with the creature(drug), and knew it is affecting her negatively. (Hence the thin ice meaning close to death.) "Thin ice broke and she awoke again" indicates she is realizing she is dying due to her overdosing on this drug. She is attempting to seek help from others, hence why she is "screaming and asking for someone to come help her." But the creature(drug) always comes back to drag her into using it again.
I looked into other meanings but I believe this one is most relatable and make most sense. -
I think this song has good parallels to drug addiction and drug use. The creature asking to be let in is addiction and after trying once she is chased by the creature continually.
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Lily was a little girl,who was afraid of the world, she never went out of her castle walls.She became lost one day in the woods, as she got deeper in, she met a creature.It told her it would give her anything she wanted if she'd let it in her castle.It promised her gold and anything she wanted.Lily was then accidentally himitised by the monster,who started leading her to the castle.Lily snapped out and realized that she was with this monster, who she was terrified.She started running and screaming "SOMEONE HELP ME" and "COME GET ME".As she ran to the castle she got inside the castle and locked the doors.As she ran upstairs, she could not find her parents.Lily started to cry knowing what she did.The monster broke open all the windows and doors,he floated near Lily and well let's say "got rid of her".
This is really the simplest story of Lily, its suppost to be fantasy not anything about depression or that stuff.Sometimes the simple things are the most true. -
I think this song can be about the exploitation of a young woman who would give everything to be loved by a man who only uses her. Lily believes that if she gives her virginity to the man ( or simply has sexual intercourse with him) he stays with her and gives her love and safety and a real relationship. I think that's a problem for many young girls these days until they find someone who actually treats them well. But for this man Lily is only a one night stand and leaves her broken.
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for me there are explicit and implied meaning. just like in the song, lily was a lil girl who afraid and live in castle etc etc. its a story where lily runs from castle where she live and goes to the wood. before she runs, her family warned her of an evil creatures who lives there. so when she was in the wood, the creature offer to give her everything if she follows it. it will lead her to the top of the mountain. theres a valley low which can give anything she wish for, but in exchange, she needs to let it into her body and become one with the devil. which means, the creature will have her body. so like a magic, her wish may come true one by one and the creature will always protect her from death and all. however, lily don’t want to give herself to the devil. so she try to run and was hypnotised by the creature where she feels like walking on a cold thin ice and it breaks. the falls then free her from the hypnotise. so when she awake, she continue running and screaming for help as the creature keep chasing her. so for the other meaning. i think its about a teenage girl who always stuck at home because her parents are too controlling. she does afraid of the world outside as her family warned her that there are too many bad influence and she is too young to do whatever she wants. but as time goes by, her curiosity grew, which lead her to run away from home. so when shes outside, she met bad guys who promised to make her dreams come true like become a rich singer or such, but in exchange she must follows and live with them or do whatever bad things they ask. they even promise to protect her. after some times, she knew she were cheated by these guys, however she had no choice but to stay and regret. she had done an awful mess and ruin her life. so she try to escape and seek help from anyone. but its not easy to escape as these bad guys will keep chasing her and the mess she had done will haunt her life forever. -ely
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I think this song is about a little girl (Lily) who is kidnapped and raped by an older man. This could work through the lyrics "Just let me in" as said by the monster, who could be the person who took her.
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Lily grew up in a castle and didnt know about big wide world, its a prison for her, but its also her comfort zone, just like us, we felt comfortable for our life, our religion and our social life, then this creature from the dark come to show her what is the real life is, want bring her to the peak so she can see everything out, she try to run and ask help but no one help, coz that is the reality no one even come to help. This creature wanna showing her the dark side doesnt mean to hurt her, accept it and the creature will help her and protect her from her illusion of life. When someone willing to tell u about ur darkside doesnt mean they hate you, they care about you and want to go through along with you together.
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I think this song tells us about how life is because even the album itself different world we can even tell that this is all about temptations.
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I believe that the song 'Lily' relates to the real world. Every day, people are getting scammed by others ('Give you everything you've been dreaming of') and tricked into making bad decisions.
We smoke, fight, kill and drink and humans have become addicted to it; we've let these issues take control and made them part of us ('Just let me in, ooh').
Lily represents us and how we have realized what humanity is doing is wrong('She knew she was hypnotised, and walking on thin, cold ice'), but civilization has dived too deep and no matter how much we try to fight it and try to call for help ('Then it broke, and she awoke again. Then she ran faster than- Start screaming, Is there someone out there? Please help me, come get me'), it always comes back to haunt us.
In short: This is about the bad decisions we make and how we are triggered to do it by the devil. Keep safe, do the right thing and love God, because if you do, better things will come and we wont be doomed like Lily/ our world in this song is. -
I strongly believe the lyrics are about a young girl, Lily, who is battling depression and resisting the temptation to self harm / commit suicide.
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Its about eve Adam and Eve she seduced into taking a deal that cost humanity everything God had to share with his children the castle is Eden the woods are the toil of earth the grass was not greener. Then we blame God for our sin. These songs are unholy hymns. God bless u
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Lily might be us when we are children safe in our castles(our houses with our parents or guardians) then when we leave the castle (growing up and leaving the household) we easily get tracked by big companies and get easily hypnotized by their ads to buy their product that claims to give,do,or cure anything then you notice that it was a scam you try to warn anybody so they wont be scammed as well and trying to get help(the monster creeping up to Lily and hypnotizing her and the follow everywhere i go bla bla bla then Lily falls in to the water and awakes then runs away then calls for help) this is just an opinion tho so you can go and scream at your screen saying im wrong. •___•
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