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My experience was as close to a religious experience I have ever felt. The best part: a year or two later, I actually reached the lowest point of my life psychologically, and as I struggled alone, with thoughts of death and despair, I sought solitude in the wilderness.
One Sunday in January or February I chose a park far from home and an unusual soundtrack for my journey. I hadn't listened to "Still" in over a year, but as I reached my destination, and the end of the album - namely "Leaving Hope", I suddenly realized I had lived this moment years prior. I recognized the state park I was entering, even though I had never been there before. As I entered, I realized I had seen it before in a d ream, and I had felt sorrow and loss, even though I didn't know of what.
I have never before or since experienced deja vu or epiphany such as these experiences, and truly claim the song as instrumental in my experience.
What I interpret is the name of the planet is "Hope"
Beautiful song.
I see it as a hopeful piece. Sometimes when you hit rock bottom and you sit and hope things will work out and keep hoping for someone to get well if they are sick, hoping for a love to return, hoping for your finances to stabilize, hoping for the pain to end, hoping for your life to change... you get stuck in a cycle of hoping and not doing.
Leaving hope is leaving that hope behind and its like the chains fall off and its just you, and you are able to go on and make your own way. You leave all that hope behind and it free's you.
If it was "losing hope" then I would see it as sad, depressing and hitting rock bottom with no way out - but its "leaving hope" where you pull yourself together and leave it behind.
What I "see" when I listen to this song is something of great pain and strife. Perhaps a loved one has just died in his arms. Likely to some injustice. And the hero cries, holding the limp body to his bosom as rain begins to pour harder and harder. His grief is exquisite, but hope for his loved his gone. As the song gets louder (the climax), he looks towards the sky, rain splashing his face. Silently, he grits his teeth and vows that he will avenge this lost person. At this point, the song fades to quiet and we are left to our own questions of how the story will go.
and, to me, that is one of the hardest parts of life.
Anyway, during one of the biggest K holes I've experienced ever, And All That Could Have Been came on, followed by The Great Collapse, and it led to this song, it was one of the first times I *really* listened to it.
At first I thought by the name it was a good song. Look, there is still hope, I'm leaving it here for you.
But, in fact its more like "I am leaving hope"
It's a beautiful song and it completely washed over the most sad, hopeless energy in me.
You know an artist is a god when he can create such a feeling from a song without using any lyrics.