"Crows" by While She Sleeps ( Clip + Lyrics + Analysis )

LYRICS 

I have seen the tides change course, without a warning, without the winds or the waves.
She will empty the graves because we are all the same.
I'm reaching out to you, so you could all be saved.
Give me your hands.
This is the end.
We're all gonna fucking drown.
Let's make a change now.

These black clouds above your head, won't turn white until your dead.
I live this life with no regrets.
I live and I learn, I forgive and forget.
We'll rise against this.
We will rise one more time.

I'll fly with a murder of crows.
I'll swim were the ocean has chose.
But Rome wasn't built in a day.
To Heaven or to Hell only time will tell.
Through the sun into the grey.
I will fight before I pray.

Give me your hands, this is the end.
All will be gone.
What happens tonight echoes through eternity.

Analysis

For my second lyrics analysis I've chosen the song "Crows" by the British band While she Sleeps, in order to make some promo for them, because they are a great band and their texts are really good, as we'll see during the analysis.
As far as I've analyzed the lyrics I've decided to study them with you line by line and then sum up the whole story behind the lyrics, because there aren't a lot of ideas I could exploit individually.

 I have seen the tides change course, without a warning, without the winds or the waves.
==>The song begins with the narrator seeing a huge change in the world he lives in, something impressive, but that was quite unpredictable...


She will empty the graves because we are all the same.
==> I assume the narrator call that big change "she" as in many songs of the post-hardcore / hardcore , the threat and the cause of pain is more than often feminine. So, the narrator says, that big change is a change that could cause the end of all life.

I'm reaching out to you, so you could all be saved. 
==>Because of that, the narrator calls out everyone to react and act to avoid the danger due to those changes.

Give me your hands.
This is the end.
We're all gonna fucking drown.
Let's make a change now.
==>It's basically the same thing here as the narrator compels us to follow him, trust him and help him to act against those changes that could bring us all down.

These black clouds above your head, won't turn white until your dead.
==> My favorite line out there I think.  It kind of says that the course of events is not changeable, that the curse that flies over the people will not disappear, except if it succeeds in killing us.That there is not much hope of getting away from it alive.

I live this life with no regrets.
I live and I learn, I forgive and forget.
==>There the narrator tries to lead by example, saying he has given up all fears, all hate and hopes in order to live the few hours he might have in the best way he can.

We'll rise against this.
We will rise one more time.
==> He also says that, if all men can get along, they'll might have the power to resist that danger, going out there for one big struggle in order to resist the danger. 

I'll fly with a murder of crows.
==> In the next lines, it seems like the narrator is telling what could happen to him. This line here kind of means that he thinks he could die, as the crow is often a representation of death.

 I'll swim were the ocean has chose.
==> The narrator says he'll let the destiny bring him where it thinks he should be, that he will try not to overreact to the things of life.


 But Rome wasn't built in a day.
==> He says that the task will be tough, referring to the lines where he talks about a possible resistance to the change. 


To Heaven or to Hell only time will tell.
==> He tells that he doesn't know where "the ocean" will bring him, he feels like he must let destiny act for him, even if he can't see where this will get him. 

Through the sun into the grey.
I will fight before I pray.
==> He also evokes one destination where destiny could lead him, and says that he is ready for that last one big struggle.


Give me your hands, this is the end.
==> One more time he calls out everybody to help him in this final "battle"

All will be gone.
==> And that's why he calls everybody out, because  this is the last "fight" before the end of everything.

What happens tonight echoes through eternity.
==> This line is particularly interesting, as it looks like a quote from the action picture "Gladiator" when the Roman General Maximus motivates his troops before battle with a sentence like this one: "What we do in life echoes in eternity". So this makes us tend to think that these are the last words of the narrator before battle.


So basically the song is about some kind of a direct message that the narrator gives us. The message is a call to make changes in our lives, to help each other to resist the upcoming changes that will affect us all in a tragic way if we can't get altogether. the narrator calls us to follow him, but also says that he is not a leader, but that we are the ones that will lead him. We are "the ocean" that will lead him to his destiny. And that's why he needs everybody to give him his hand. We quite don't know what his the nature of that change, we can imagine this is an ecological message, a political one, social, or an overall fear of the combined effects of everything that doesn't go well in our world that could threaten our lives and way of life, and that needs us to act together as one to make the world safer and better.
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Acoustic version of "Crows"