Wow.Lovely song.I love the lyrics. :>

Amazing. It's like the notes entwine themselves around your sternum and tbe bass pounds catharsis through your body. Brilliant. Love this band.

I really like his voice on this song. The lyrics sound creepy though, like he can't forget this certain girl. Perhaps she died or something. Thats how I enterpreted the song.

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Okay, so my friend and I have been analyzing songs... This was one of them. So I'm either going to post both of our comments, or just mine. So here it goes.

She says: i think it's just another love ballad. he's been left by his lover. left in the house alone where he and his love used to spend time together. now he is haunted by her memory. their is a theme of mysteriousness and eerieness. so her memory is ominous and has become a presence, felt with each flicker and creak. it all reminds him of her. he likes it though. and he knows the shadows and flickers and creaks can't really be her but he wishes it really were, cuz that would be better than the nothing.

I agreed, but I also added: I thought it was pretty sweet, kinda creepy. The music does give it a new meaning though. It may be a requiem, but it is a song that gives off the feeling, this is his suffering, but he's moving on, slowly. The part that i am confused about is... did the clock die at a 3:15? It seems as if, time just stopped, but then again, the wind is still blowing. Is there some kind of paradigm when it comes to time, and space?

what? really? only 4 comments? this is one of my favorite Anberlin songs. they sang it at their acoustic show in Seattle. AMAZING!!!! the lyrics are delightfully creepy...maybe about a love that passed away. maybe about just a relationship that ended. either way...beautiful song!

Wow this song truly is haunting. It is about a man who is haunted by the memory of his lover - she could be dead, or she could have just moved on elsewhere, we do not know.
He can't see her, but he can feel her, and he still wants her so much "Just want your heartbeat on top of mine"
"THeres something dancing here in the shadows" may suggest that one of the things they liked to do was dance together.
The fact that the clock stopped working "at a quarter past three" indicates several meanings. It shows that he is stuck on a moment in time, captured there completely, and unable to move on. It also shows that the place there holds memories that are frozen in time - there have been no new memories made there since she was there with him.

spir·it /ˈspɪrɪt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[spir-it] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
2. the soul regarded as separating from the body at death.
3. conscious, incorporeal being, as opposed to matter: the world of spirit.
4. a supernatural, incorporeal being, esp. one inhabiting a place, object, etc., or having a particular character: evil spirits.


it's not a lost lover. the creepiness of the song and lyrics, and the word SPIRIT point to a lost loved one. she passed on.
period.