I love this song, I get something new from it everytime i listen, and it never fails to give me goose bumps.
I don't have time to analyse all the lines but the things that spring out to me.
Firstly, the song should be sad, he's either singing about someone potentially leaving or possibly even dieing, and on top of that he's making reference to the end of the wolrd, which is hardly a cheery topic! However, I find the song incredibly uplifting. It doesn't fill me with sadness, he's not singing that world is ending he's just saying that if it does he wants to be with her, that's a pretty amazing statement to make about someone. "If it's all over then I want to be with you" wow.
Okay, some other notes, he opens with "I'd just about managed to forget you when you appeared in a dream". Why is he trying to forget her? She's not with him at the time. So has she left him? is she considering leaving him? Has she died? The lyrics don't seem to focus on any kind of regret or anger, so it's difficult to reconcile in my head that it's about a break up. Then the line "Fate is telling you not to go" suggests she hasn't acatually gone, but then is he just so upset that he can't face the fact that she has either left him or is dead? I think this last possibility is enhance by psychbains observations of the closing spoken line, "But the world didn't end. Yet, somehow..." Is he saying the world hasn't ended yet somehow you're not here?
Their's also a childish element to the song, in that he's seeing her in his dreams and she's playing with buckets of sand, has he known her since he was child, is he singing specifically about a child rather than a lover? Or is he just remembering more innocent time.
Anyway, I've run out of time. These are just some of the things the song makes me think about. I'm not saying it's what the song is actually about. I'm sure it means other things to other people, and thats cool. I'd love to hear other opinions. I find it hard to believe that such a beautiful song only has 4 comments.
I love this song, I get something new from it everytime i listen, and it never fails to give me goose bumps.
I don't have time to analyse all the lines but the things that spring out to me.
Firstly, the song should be sad, he's either singing about someone potentially leaving or possibly even dieing, and on top of that he's making reference to the end of the wolrd, which is hardly a cheery topic! However, I find the song incredibly uplifting. It doesn't fill me with sadness, he's not singing that world is ending he's just saying that if it does he wants to be with her, that's a pretty amazing statement to make about someone. "If it's all over then I want to be with you" wow.
Okay, some other notes, he opens with "I'd just about managed to forget you when you appeared in a dream". Why is he trying to forget her? She's not with him at the time. So has she left him? is she considering leaving him? Has she died? The lyrics don't seem to focus on any kind of regret or anger, so it's difficult to reconcile in my head that it's about a break up. Then the line "Fate is telling you not to go" suggests she hasn't acatually gone, but then is he just so upset that he can't face the fact that she has either left him or is dead? I think this last possibility is enhance by psychbains observations of the closing spoken line, "But the world didn't end. Yet, somehow..." Is he saying the world hasn't ended yet somehow you're not here?
Their's also a childish element to the song, in that he's seeing her in his dreams and she's playing with buckets of sand, has he known her since he was child, is he singing specifically about a child rather than a lover? Or is he just remembering more innocent time.
Anyway, I've run out of time. These are just some of the things the song makes me think about. I'm not saying it's what the song is actually about. I'm sure it means other things to other people, and thats cool. I'd love to hear other opinions. I find it hard to believe that such a beautiful song only has 4 comments.