This is one of those songs that I heard for the first time on my way to work in the morning and couldn't get out of my head the rest of the day. This song is about the relationship between siblings that are spread out somewhat far in age, told by the older brother. When you're much older than your sibling, the relationship takes on a strange form--something between sibling and parent. You care about each other, but you're too different to have a normal sibling relationship (in this case, the older brother was on a cub scout trip when the younger brother was born--but he felt so far removed that he may as well have been on the moon). Then, as you both grow up, you try to live your own adult life, but you feel guilty for not being around for your younger sibling all the time. ("And still trying to balance freedom and at the same time letting family know that I'm still alive.") In the song, the guy misses all of his little brother's events, like baseball games, and at those times that he does see his brother (like at funerals and family get-togethers) he's reminded how much he cares about the kid. He tells his brother how beautiful he is, how he'll be home soon, and that he wants to write him the perfect song. Which by the way, he definitely did.
This is one of those songs that I heard for the first time on my way to work in the morning and couldn't get out of my head the rest of the day. This song is about the relationship between siblings that are spread out somewhat far in age, told by the older brother. When you're much older than your sibling, the relationship takes on a strange form--something between sibling and parent. You care about each other, but you're too different to have a normal sibling relationship (in this case, the older brother was on a cub scout trip when the younger brother was born--but he felt so far removed that he may as well have been on the moon). Then, as you both grow up, you try to live your own adult life, but you feel guilty for not being around for your younger sibling all the time. ("And still trying to balance freedom and at the same time letting family know that I'm still alive.") In the song, the guy misses all of his little brother's events, like baseball games, and at those times that he does see his brother (like at funerals and family get-togethers) he's reminded how much he cares about the kid. He tells his brother how beautiful he is, how he'll be home soon, and that he wants to write him the perfect song. Which by the way, he definitely did.