What does Tall Tales for Spring mean?

Vanessa Carlton: Tall Tales for Spring Meaning

Tagged: Spring [suggest]
Album cover for Tall Tales for Spring album cover

Song Released: 2011


Tall Tales for Spring Lyrics

God rest his head sunday afternoon
The wicked in me is surely wicked in you
Pray to a ghost that we've never met
Time turns for a cure from the scientists for this madness
Madness of the heart
But you knew it, we knew it from the...

  1. anonymous
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    May 12th 2014 !⃝

    madness in the heart is the faith in God but maybe she was questioning how can a person have faith in someone you never met. now she was relying on the scientist to cure or prove that God is not real.

  2. anonymous
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    Oct 10th 2011 !⃝

    Well, this song is about atheism and it talks about the "madness" in the heart, searching for the answers and thinking about how crazy it is to rely on faith alone to understand the things that happen in the world.


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