La Dispute - Four (Lyrics) video free download


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Uploaded: 2011/07/11

There was once a great kingdom, and its great king had a beautiful daughter who passed her days in solitude, weaving garments for the pleasure of her father. One day, while she was sitting beside the great river, peering across, she saw a handsome young shepherd boy leading his flock through the pasture. Immediately, she fell in love. Thereafter, she became terribly disheartened, knowing that, due to her duties at the loom, she would be unable to pursue that love. The king, aware that by his bidding such despair had befallen her, felt great remorse, and arranged for her to marry the shepherd. There marriage was one of happiness from the start, and everyday thereafter they grew happier and happier. However, in immersing herself in her marriage, the princess had neglected her weaving and the great king became angry. Unable to reconcile with that anger, the great king banished each of the lovers to opposite sides of the great river, allowing them only to meet once each year: on the seventh day of the seventh month. On that day, a ferryman would carry the shepherd boy across the river to the princess, and return him home at day's end. However, if the princess has not fulfilled her obligations at the loom the king floods the river, and the two can not meet.

This song is Four, by La Dispute. I did not make this song, I am only sharing it so people will buy the album in stores. NON-PROFIT VIDEO.

Comments

9 years ago

From the Rise and Fall

I have to personally agree with a comment I read on a previous videoAll of their songs seem like a puzzle in which if you start from the beginning everything eventually lines up and you can make the connections.Its almost like in "said the king to the river" the man wishes to keep the lovers apart. There are several other connections you can make but it's not like some kind of top secret grade A conspiracy theory, it's an interesting twist to the poetry and songs, leaving a full all out story.

9 years ago

~Squidgy

"Rise!" said the king to the river

9 years ago

blackVelvet

I am so in love with that song.

10 years ago

Rob Gross

so did anyone notice that this is like a pre-song for, "Said the king to the river"?

10 years ago

zombiesquirrels8D

wow... They're so different from regular music. They have stories and poems with background music. It's so nice..

10 years ago

Owen Simpson

I mean wow..

10 years ago

AhmandahAnarchy

I love you so hard right now... You jus totally made me connect that... <3 THANK YOU!!!

10 years ago

AhmandahAnarchy

o.O I have been enlightened... <3

10 years ago

fliptwister2992

I feel like this should be Seven not Four..

10 years ago

DwayneSmoochie

Nope, it's actually based off of a Chinese myth about a Weaver maiden and a cowherd gentleman; of which Dynasty, I do not know. Japan's Tanabata festival and Korea's Chilseok festival was originated from this Chinese myth

10 years ago

Collin Caruso

is it just me. or is a majority of "somewhere at the bottom..." based on these poems and what not.

10 years ago

xTheBlackFoxx

I love this <3

10 years ago

Ally_Lydia4L

This is the opposite of a fairy tale, how tragic. La Dispute can make it sound so lovely though.

11 years ago

Saskia Rots

the 7th day of the 7th month is my birthday and also the day I am seeing la dispute live : )

11 years ago

vanessajd96

Jordan Dreyer's kids are going to love bedtime stories with their dad.

11 years ago

RunSlagathorRun

this is the meaning behind their song "said the king to the river"

11 years ago

Matheus Telles

"Rise! Said the King to the River Never let up, No, bring us a flood and bring it hard!" I love how La Dispute uses a poem as base for AWSOME songs. Got chills every single freaking time <3

11 years ago

aplacetoforget

I always get so emotional over this song because it makes you think of a fairytale but then you realize that it's sad instead of happy and it just makes you think

11 years ago

busybeebrie

My birthday is on the seventh day of the seventh month

11 years ago

Eric Gibson

I know! I was at a party for this!

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