| Trading Yesterday – Shattered Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To actress15 - surely this song isn't so obviously religious that it can't be interpreted in more that one way? Whether you look at it as being religious or not, in the end, it's still speaking about the same message - it is about losing yourself and refusing love, before finally allowing someone in your heart, and that someone could be either a person or God. Either way, it can mean essentially the same thing, and neither meaning detracts from how beautiful and powerful the song is. A song only ever means what you make it mean, right? For me, this is a song about hope in love - it's about being broken and hurt, so much that you can't take the idea of accepting love again, which is a lonely, miserable place to be in. You don't want to accept love from anyone because love is what will hurt you. But then, there's a revelation - you find a love that you want to accept. It's going to hurt, allowing it into your heart, but it gives you a hope - the light at the end of the tunnel, if you will. It's a painful process to accept it, but in the end, it's a healing process and it's what will repair your shattered heart. This song is about that realisation and taking the first step into accepting love, and seeing the journey ahead and being willing to take it for love's sake. To me, yes, that love means God's love, which will conquer, and will heal all the shattered ones out there. But I don't think that this version of the song is so obviously religious that it excludes people who aren't religious from finding meaning in it, and I don't think that it should ruin the power of the song. My best friend, who first played this song to me, is an atheist, and we both find it equally moving, and equally beautiful. From either point of view, it's still about love and hope, which can come from a million and one different places. |
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