So when I first heard this song a few months ago when "All The Lost Souls" came out, I definitely liked it, and knew it was about the end of one's life, etc. but didn't really think about it much. Then I saw this amazing dance to it on Dancing With the Stars, with James performing alongside two dancers doing all sorts of gorgeous lifts



So then I of course had to YouTube the actual music video, and suddenly the lyrics totally changed, in the way that I heard them.



I mean, "Carry You Home" before made me think...okay someone being delivered to heaven, or something similar. But when you hear "someone's little girl was taken from the world tonight, under the Stars and Stripes" the following lines "watching you breathing for the last time" become more literal, and "carry you home" invokes images of soldiers' bodies being sent back across the ocean, or soldier's promises to eachother to deliver letters/belongings to loved ones if they don't make it.

I don't know, the message just struck me particularly hard this evening. Yeah, I totally cried while watching it. Twice. It's strange how even though I know Blunt was an officer in the British Army, I'm always slightly taken back by his songs about those issues coming from his shaggy-haired-skinny-songwriter body. This song seems like the counterpart to "No Bravery", one of my favorites from the first album.

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