Needle and Thread (Piano/Vocal)

16 Dec 2016 · 3 min

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The lyrics of "Needle and Thread" present a poetic meditation on spiritual and emotional exchange between individuals. The narrator describes life, love, peace, and pain flowing between "me" and "you" like a spirit, a sea, or sunlight, emphasizing a reciprocal movement of feelings. Repeated imagery of a needle and thread symbolizes the process of healing and unity: wounds close, prisons crumble, and demons die as souls are sewn together. The song weaves themes of connection, transformation, and collective liberation, using cyclical language and a refrain that reinforces the central metaphor of stitching together humanity.

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Out of me and into you, life passes through like a spirit swelling in space. All the heart and all the hate In a circle of fate, spinning wildly like a wheel in a race. Out of you and into me, love is like a sea, like a feeling flowing through time. With a dream and a design, weaving into a line, swinging freely like a child on a vine. All our people are pulled tightly from where they've been spread. All our wounds are closed after all of us have bled. When all the prisons crumble and our demons are all dead, our souls are sewn together by the same needle and thread. Needle and thread. Out of me and into you, peace passes through like the sunlight warming our fears. All the pain through the years in a puddle of tears drying slowly as the day disappears. When all our people are pulled tightly from where they've been spread, all our wounds are closed after all of have bled. When all the prisons crumble and our demons are all dead, our souls are sewn together by the same needle and thread. Needle and thread. Our souls are sewn together. Our souls are sewn together. Needle and thread.