The song "40 Day Dream" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes tells the story of Edward Sharpe in a relationship with a woman who is his everything and more. They are living in a surreal dream like world where everything, including their relationship, is perfect and amazing. The song has a theme of love happiness and contentment. In "40 Day Dream", Alex Ebert, the lead singer of Edward Sharpe uses a lot of metaphoric verses and imagery. When Edward turns his girl's gold doorknob eyes, he sees what he truly longs and what he always wants.
Because of this symbolism, the song is able to have many different interpretations and various meanings. Though one may believe the "magical mystery kind,' is the sort of love that Edward Sharpe shares with his girl when really he can be high of a magical mystery kind of drug that he "inhaled just a little bit." which gives him, "no fear of death." The meaning of the song is truly up to the decision of the listener/reader like any good work of poetry is. And oh, now I can die.
Oh I've been sleeping for forty days and Yeah, I know that I'm sleeping cause this dream's too amazing She got gold doorknobs where her eyes used to be, yeah One turn and I learned what it really means to see, yeah It's the magical mystery kind Must be a lie Bye bye to the too good to be true kind of love Oooooh I could die Oooooh now, I could die Now I've been sleeping for sixty days and Nobody better pinch me Bitch I swear, I’ll go crazy She got jumper cable lips She got sunset on her breath I inhaled just a little bit Now I got no fear of death It's the magical mystery kind Must be a lie Bye bye to the too good to be true kind of love Oooooh I could die Oooooh now, I could die It's the magical mystery kind Must be a lie Bye bye to the too good to be true kind of love Oooooh I could die Oooooh now, I could die
