James Blunt: Carry You Home Meaning
Song Released: 2008
Carry You Home Lyrics
Makes her body older than it really is.
She says it's high time she went away,
No one's got much to say in this town.
Trouble is the only way is down.
Down, down.
As strong as you were,...
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The song in my opinion deals with a few issues...Firstly, the soldier that dies is a female, if you take time to notice. There are two different females in the video, the first is in the bed, the second is in the dark spotted dress. The one who is killed looks strikingly like first woman who gets out of bed and washes he face, turns and looks at the other woman in the door way.
The refrence to America and stars and stripes has nothign to do with the United States directly. Kosovo was a United Nations action, and the UN is in where? New York. Many People thought that the U.S. was the real reason for action in the area, to supress Russian activity though, so the refrence to the "Stars and Stripes" could be a refrence to who sent the person there. Who he holds responsible for the death.
The only reason I am stating these points is because as a Ranger in the United States Army, I watched people breath for the very last time, and you do tend to, in retrospect, blame all the people who sent you there to witness and take part in the horrors created.
I carried many soldiers home. If you watch him perform this live you can feel the anguish in his eyes, the pain he bears in his soul, for the things he has done as a leader of troops.
One thing I know would happen if there were a female in combat who was of a different sexual orientation. The parents woould be notified, however the love of their life would not be. Is it possible that James is looking at another aspect of war and the further hipocracys we create.
The military would carry a husband or wife home, give honors to the family, but would not notify the love if they were of the same sex. I feel that if James were faced with this delema, he would have caried her home to her loved ones, all of them.
I know as a leader of soldiers, there is a certain connection that is made, and an honor bound calling to do the right thing. I would have carried any soldier home to ALL their loved ones. They trusted me to do the right thing, even in death. -
I agree with the inter. that she was a soldier, "under the stars and stripes" and a fellow soldier stays with her and will "carry her home" ....something I think the marines say. :( sad.
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War female dying in the battle field/ simple we are all born pretty in a u s city. war is ugly. He is taking her home.
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I think that he is taking his friends dog tags home to the lady in the video. ('part' of him maybe?) The lady in the video might be his lover. His world, his life and most likely his heart. 'home is were the heart is.'
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Personally i feel this song is about a friend he may have served with who died while serving the army, and when he says "I'll carry you home" he's taking a message or something sentimental back to the fallen soldiers partner.
And the line "someone's little girl was taken from the world tonight" could perhaps mean she would be different because of the loss.
Also the "watching you breathing for the last time" lyric could be that he was there by him as the other soldier took his last breaths. Just my opinion. -
I think he wrote this song from his personal experience in Kosovo. And he brought back his friend's personal effects back to his wife.
But this part "And they were all born pretty in New York City tonight,
And someone's little girl was taken from the world tonight,
Under the Stars and Stripes." refers to the 9/11 that a girl tragically died in the incident and her body was covered by the US flag (under the Stars and Stripes). -
^ ^ sorry, I'm Brazilian, and written in Portuguese by mistake: S:
I never understood this song and I'll never understand. for me the first time I saw was a guy, really stupid, leaving a woman in the street because he felt angry with her, probably because she had betrayed him. now that I was reading this they begin to make sense. still do not understand this song, but I know that is my favorite, I hear 11 times a day: D
sorry if something is spelled wrong, it was google who translated. -
eu nunca entendi essa musica e nunca vou entender. para mim, da primeira vez que eu vi, era um cara, muito idiota, abandonando uma mulher no meio da rua porque ele sentia raiva dela, provavelmente porque ela tinha traído ele. agora que eu estava lendo isso que COMEÇOU a fazer sentido. ainda não entendo essa musica, mas sei que é a minha preferida, ouço 11 vezes por dia :D
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The song is about when James had to let his best friends wife know what had happened to him its terrible :'(.
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I suppose I agree with some of you regarding the american female soldier idea. But my interpretation is that the female soldier is the same as the girl in mourning.
James Blunt is "death" and by returning her picture/tag to herself, she knows that she is dead and he will "carry" her to heaven (home). -
I agree with the interpretation of a dying female soldier. Take a look at the clip and it makes sense.
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I always saw it as this: A woman/girl is sick and dies and the man here (father or lover) is letting her go.
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There are three people in this lyric. British Soldier, wife/girlfriend,and personal effects bearer. Soldier is killed in action in a conflict that America,re:New York, started and then forgot. Back to party time as usual. Personal effects bearer "carries her home" in the only form the soldier could hold onto while in combat, the picture. Wife/girlfriend is in deep anguish, mourning, and depression, but does not commit suicide as Mr. Blunt sings, "If she had wings she would fly away, BUT NOT TODAY, someday God will give her some." The effects bearer sees her breath for the last time and departs.
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Well, there are at least three individuals in this song: the singer, the woman referred all over the song and "you" on the chorus.
James Blunt served in Kosovo, so he has some war-like experience; I think he wrote this song for a friend who died in action and was "taken home" by James to his wife, who ended up killing herself; just take these ideas and try to fit them in the lyrics while you watch the video. -
I think the song may be about 9/11. Obviously it's about a dying person,but the lyrics suggest this scenario takes place in New York. And "someone's little girl was taken from this world tonight...under stars and stripes" to me means she died on American soil.
I personally like to think that the chorus is referring to a fireman or rescuer who is with that person or child up until the end, where they will finally carry them home.
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