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Adia I do believe I failed you
Adia I know I've let you down
Don't you know I tried so hard
To love you in my way
It's easy let it go
Adia I'm empty since you left me
Trying to find a way to carry on
I search myself and everyone
To see where we went wrong
'Cause there's no one left to finger
There's no one here to blame
There's no one left to talk to, honey
And there ain't no one to buy our innocence
'Cause we are born innocent
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter
Does it matter?
Adia I thought that we could make it
But I know I can't change the way you feel
I leave you with your misery
A friend who won't betray
I pull you from your tower
I take away your pain
And show you all the beauty you possess
If you'd only let yourself believe that
We are born innocent
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter, does it matter?
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
'Cause we are born innocent
Adia we are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter, but does it matter?
'Cause we are born innocent
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter
Does it matter?
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
'Cause we are born innocent
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter
does it matter?
Adia I know I've let you down
Don't you know I tried so hard
To love you in my way
It's easy let it go
Adia I'm empty since you left me
Trying to find a way to carry on
I search myself and everyone
To see where we went wrong
'Cause there's no one left to finger
There's no one here to blame
There's no one left to talk to, honey
And there ain't no one to buy our innocence
'Cause we are born innocent
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter
Does it matter?
Adia I thought that we could make it
But I know I can't change the way you feel
I leave you with your misery
A friend who won't betray
I pull you from your tower
I take away your pain
And show you all the beauty you possess
If you'd only let yourself believe that
We are born innocent
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter, does it matter?
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
'Cause we are born innocent
Adia we are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter, but does it matter?
'Cause we are born innocent
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter
Does it matter?
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
'Cause we are born innocent
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter
does it matter?
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if you'd only let yourself believe
That we are born innocent
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent.
Its easy, we all falter
But does it matter?"
Love this... Talk about angels.
Good stuff.
This is a beautiful song about someone not meeting expectations-I dunno,I guess. I prefer to just listen to it. lol :)
It's easy, let it go...
We all falter, but does it matter?...
I think the song is pretty much about unconditional love. The person singing the song is trying to convince Adia, or Sarah, that she deserves to be loved, despite how hard she is on herself, despite how she holds herself responsible for hurting people and what a horrible person she believes that makes her. They sing:
I'd pull you from your tower,
I'd take away your pain,
and show you all the beauty you possess
if only you'd believe that
we are born innocent
The singer is saying I would love you for all that you are, if only you'd let me. Ultimately, Adia is too convinced that she is unlovable, for all these things she blames herself for, and won't let the person in. The person feels they have failed her in some way. They tried to love her and show her that she deserved it, but Adia didn't believe them, tragically leaving her alone:
Adia, I do believe I failed you
Adia, I know I let you down...
I leave you with your misery
A friend who won't betray.
It could be Sarah's message to herself, but I feel like it has more to do with a relationship, because she says:
I thought we could make it,
but I know I can't change the way you feel.
I think the song is sung to Sarah, as Adia, but perhaps sung from the perspective of a past lover(s) that tried to get her to open up, but failed. I think she left them, and remained alone because of it. Maybe this song was sort of like a realization and a turning point for her and she finally was able to let someone in.
Her inspiration, from her own words, was how she felt towards her best friend having married her ex-boyfriend, but the sentimes she expresses are those of sorrow at losing someone who can't accept the love they feel. This fits her own situation, but just as easily in a hostile world fits a girl (or a guy, to be fair) bemoaning losing a friend for having had a same-sex relationshiops, cross-cultural couples who lose the closeness of friends or family.
It's about the loss that comes from having to choose between love and friendship, regardless of what the love is.
Adia is about a man and a woman (Adia) who were long childhood friends, and as they entered their adult lives, they became separated and lost touch. After many years, they encountered one another, and even though they had developed separate lives, they were able to learn things about one another that they couldn't see when they were younger. Once they made those discoveries, they realized that they meant so much to each other, yet they weren't able to find a meaningful way to convey that cherished state into their current situations, so there was a falling out, in lieu of a disruption to their current lives. There were hurt feelings and even though it was the purest form of love, it wasn't seen the same way by both, and Adia pulled away, feeling that the situation wasn't morally right. However, Adia's friend saw it differently, but he couldn't find a way to have it fit Adia's purpose in life, and she abandoned him.
Adia and her friend opened up to one another after many years about their feelings, and even though they were both trying to respect each other’s feelings and convictions, Adia felt compromised. No matter how Adia’s friend tried to help her reconcile this, he eventually was scorned, and she dismissed his desire to seek a way for them to be involved in some manner, even though their conversations had crossed some lines on occasion. Those instances left her feeling that there was no way to make it right on earth, so she abandoned him, and left him in a state of grief and sadness, because he felt tremendous value in finding a way to righteously thrive in any kind of means that they could, if they could only accept together that what was past, was past, and to look to a present and future that could allow the simplest warmth in their hearts.
Surfacing is a serious album. I listen to it when I'm in a reflective state, and while it's not a particularly comforting collection, I find it to be a tremendous collection of meaningful music. I also firmly believe that Sarah likes to write with enough ambiguity to allow anyone to find meaning in her work. This could be one of her greatest assets, besides having an incredible voice and musical gift.