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Leaving Hope song meanings
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    Memory:I'll never forget the first time I heard this. I fell asleep, or fell into a trance - I'll never know which, but in my semi-wakefulness I saw a snowy wilderness and trees. I felt extreme age, sadness, and as I felt or saw something depart, near the end of the track, I regained consciousness realizing my dream was the song, or perhaps the song was my dream.

    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.
    Flag wh0r3d0mon February 10, 2013   Link
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    My Opinion:I always see the same thing, A science fiction setting with the planet exploding behind it and a lone pod iced over drifting off, then a reverse story on all the things happening to lead up to the conclusion.
    What I interpret is the name of the planet is "Hope"
    Beautiful song.
    Flag RedRokon January 23, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:With much to ponder being there is no lyrics, this is my guess.

    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.
    Flag pixelgeekgirlon June 01, 2011   Link
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    My Interpretation:(For the Piano Version)

    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.
    Flag An1m051tyon November 29, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:this song has brought me to tears so many times. it's a gentle sadness....the weak, deteriorated will of a soul who has poured out all of his heart, his energy, his life for this one cause, this one, relentless battle that before, he had refused to lose. but finally, he comes face to face with himself, and is finally willing to see reality for what it is. he is finally willing to accept that there is nothing left that he can do. so tired, defeated, he leaves his hope.

    and, to me, that is one of the hardest parts of life.
    Flag disxassociativeon September 23, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:And just as I wrote this while listening to Leaving Hope, shuffle in all my artists and music started to play the Great Collapse...

    Flag ThingsFallingAparton January 28, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I was lying in my bed on a lot of K, and I was listening to all NIN songs on shuffle.. and it was one of those rare times that shuffle is nice to you and plays the best songs.

    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.
    Flag ThingsFallingAparton January 28, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:"leaving hope" -- ditching hope ... and/or leaving hope for someone else, like, providing hope for someone else in your absence. so, negative or positive, depending on how you look at it.
    Flag minutemanon August 15, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i played this song to my girlfriend and she told me it made her want to die anfd i said "like in a peaceful way right?" and she said "no..it makes me depressed, and sad and want to die.." and i said "oh... but isnt it a beautiful song?" and she said "oh god yes!" lol
    Flag The_Ruineron April 27, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:a progression into silence
    Flag Consiliumon January 09, 2008   Link

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