2009Released
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Interesting facts and trivia about The Cave. By Songfacts®.

This tale of hope and defiance was the third single released by London-based folk quartet Mumford & Sons from their debut album, Sigh No More. A number of reviewers have surmised that the title is a reference to Plato's Allegory of the Cave in which the Greek philosopher argued that the invisible world is the most intelligible and that the visible world is the least knowable, and therefore the most incomprehensible. Plato believed that the soul exists in a realm apart from the body and the thinker is separate from the world he thinks about.

The song's music video was directed by Fred & Nick of Pulse Films in Goa, India during Mumford & Sons tour of that country.

The song was written during a soundcheck at Bannermans, one of Edinburgh, Scotland's smaller pubs.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of The Cave.
EKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
142BPM

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Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
2010 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC under exclusive license from Mumford & Sons, distributed by AWAL
2010 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC under exclusive license from Mumford & Sons, distributed by AWAL

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