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AND THE BOYS-ANGUS AND JULIA STONE





LYRICS.

It's been days now

and you change your mind again

it feels like years,

and I can tell how time can bend your ideas

and the boys go on and on and on and on

and the boys go on and on and on and on

and there's gold falling from the ceiling of this world

falling from the heartbeat of this girl

falling from the things we should have learned

falling from the things we could have heard

well it's been days now

and you change your mind again

all the cracks in the walls reminds you of things we said

and i could tell you that i wont hurt you this time

but it's just safer to keep you in this heart of mine

and the boys go on and on and on and on

and the boys go on and on and on and on

and there's gold falling from the ceiling of this world

falling from the heartbeat of this girl

falling from the things we should have learned

falling from the things we could have heard

and the boys go on and on and on and on

and the boys go on and on and on and on

and there's gold falling from the ceiling of this world

falling from the heartbeat of this girl

falling from the things we should have learned

falling from the things we could have heard

falling from the people that we heard

falling from the love we never earned

falling from the sky that should have burned

falling from my heart



Meaning and interpretation

The main meaning of the words, beautifully sang by Julia Stone with the most rare and amazing voice I had ever listened to, is how a couple has broken up because of some sort of problem they had, and the things they both said can’t be easily forgotten.

The chorus of this song is //‘and the boys go on and on and on and on// //, and the boys go on and on and on and on...’//, where Julia tells us that she is trying to forget the man with who se broke up, and trying to tell herelf that there are loads of men living in the earth and that some day she will fall in love with another man.

Another interpretation of the lyrics I had was that the man is in love with two women and he doesn’t now which one too chose, and keeps changing his mind constantly.

// ‘It's been days now //

//and you change your mind again’// With this two simple lines we can see how the boy has changed his mind again, and leaves Julia Stone alone again. Julia is desperate to have him back, and so repeates the chorus ‘and the boys go on and on and on and on...’ meaning that boys will come to her, but it will never be him. As we keep listening to the song, we understand how Julia is trying to fight for the faith of love but becomes weaker as she keeps on singing. When Julia stand out saying ‘and there’s gold falling from the ceiling of this world’ she is making the audience understand how the world of her love was once idyllic and shiny but now is becoming very dark (gold falling from the celing of her world). The song continues on and finishes by Julia telling us the same story over and over again, but suddenly reaches a point where she misses all the thing they could have done, if they wouldn’t have ended their relationship, and regrets saying all the things she said to him and all // ‘the cracks in the wall’ // ‘//falling from the things we should have learned//

//falling from the things we could have heard’// The best thing about Angus & Julia Stone music is that it can be interpreted however you want as it is not all black and white with just one meaning. This song could really be about any of the comments I came up with and more. I think this song is about a relationship that is failing or about to fail and they both have feelings for each other but too much has been said. Julia is realising that everything in her life is losing value so she must let go of the memories she has about their relationship.



'And the boys' belongs to Angus and Julia stone's album named Down the Way. Their videoclip is quite strange, and some youtube comments say that Julia seems very relaxed due to having smoked some weed, and that her voice is very childish. In my opinion, the videoclip could have been better done, but Julia's voice is what makes this song different to me.

[|Angus and Julia stone. And the boys. Videoclip + Song]
Paulina Torras Artalejo.