Olive branch
Idiomatic translations of "Olive branch"
Meanings of "Olive branch"
Doing or saying something to offer peace.
I believe that in Cohen's song Dance me to the End of Love, the olive branch is not a symbol of peace, but the symbol of a new beginning. The verse: "lift me like an olive branch, be my homeward dove" is a clear reference to Old Testament story of Noah and the flood:
Genesis 8:6-12
"After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him."
"Olive branch" in lyrics
Leonard Cohen - Dance Me to the End of Love
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
French Military Songs - The Strasbourgeoise
Prussian soldier, go on your way
Me, I'm just a child from France
And I do not offer ennemy an olive branch !
You promised a dove, in the sky there's a hawk
Brother, poisonous twig pricks, this is not an olive branch
Living in a dream, everybody talks about peace
I walk with my back held straight, I walk with my head held high
I walk with my back held straight, I walk with my head held high
I hold an olive branch in my palm, and on my shoulders I carry my coffin
As I walk, as I walk, as I walk, as I- as I- as I walk
Come... remember my rose thorns
Wake up the roses in my garden
Come... somehow suddenly
Get my hands near your hands
instead of thanking me he gave me back a look with hate in the eyes,
I'm here to avenge the captivity of everyone that they kidnapped from home,
and you're here to behead the dove that offered you an olive branch.
I crossed the obstacles, I fronted love
An olive branch, a couple of eyes is enough, I've had enough
May these rocks, mountains be my witness
I’m far away, but I’m praying for you
And I’m sending peace, on an olive branch
Where the mothers of sons never cease their weeping
Where the fathers of faith in the ground lie sleeping
The seeds of time have a whirlwind reaping
Oh, Jerusalem is.
Subliminal - Flowers in the Berral
but there is no escape from the hand of destiny!
so we stayed here, and we build ourselves a home
we believed in the peace, the dove, the olive branch
and we rose to the anthem, and we served in the army,
And then- and then-
For the olive branch in my dreams. (In my dreams.)
Do not ask me where I am from,
Come on folks, let's all be friends
Why does it come to this?
Give a chance to the olive branch
And try a hug and kiss
Mirabela Dauer - Thank you, my dearest mother
Beautiful mother, my first paradise,
Make a miracle, please, stay a little more!
Sweet light, olive branch,
It isn't time yet, just stay a little longer !
The Civil Wars - Dance Me To The End Of Love
Dance me to your beauty like a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
And dance me to the end of love
And each time a wave hits me
My heart lets out a scream for her
Like an olive branch in a gust of bora
I can still hear my father’s words...
Portuguese Folk - Oh Branch! Oh, Such a Lovely Branch!
Oh branch! Oh, such a lovely branch!
Oh, olive tree branch!
My date is the handsomest
Among all the men who have joined the ball.
only for my steps
Hey, if only someone could take an olive-branch
hey, to a door, a door that I have closed for ever,
I went down to the river oy nanayda jilveloy nanayda
To break olive branch oy nanayda jilveloy nanayda
I came to take you oy nanayda jilveloy nanayda