This song is about accepting and confronting awful things from your past. Forgiveness of others, and of yourself. Moving past guilt and self-pity, and acceptance that you can't control everything. The message is that until you confront your past, get the skeletons out of the closet and into the light you won't be able to move on.
I love the part towards the end of the song, before the last verse, when the song goes quiet and builds, with the competing lyrics "we found beautiful babies sleeping in our ribs" and "you can take it in stride or you can take it right between the eyes ..."
Such a beautiful musical representation of the message that until you face the hard things can you move on and find those "beautiful babies" within yourself. Listen to the live version that was released as a part of their documentary - it's amazing.
This song is about accepting and confronting awful things from your past. Forgiveness of others, and of yourself. Moving past guilt and self-pity, and acceptance that you can't control everything. The message is that until you confront your past, get the skeletons out of the closet and into the light you won't be able to move on.
I love the part towards the end of the song, before the last verse, when the song goes quiet and builds, with the competing lyrics "we found beautiful babies sleeping in our ribs" and "you can take it in stride or you can take it right between the eyes ..."
Such a beautiful musical representation of the message that until you face the hard things can you move on and find those "beautiful babies" within yourself. Listen to the live version that was released as a part of their documentary - it's amazing.