If you've ever read kite runner, this will much much more sense.
This song is legitimately about a refugee speaking to his son after a migration (As stated by Tim himself)
The refugee lashes out violently towards anyone that tries to help him achieve his ends because after leaving everything he had behind, believing in himself is all he has left, as everyone who's ever "helped" before has let him down.
After being reduced to a humble laborer, the refugee works to change the world that he has become a part of - nail by nail.
He then tells his son to do the same, and break the quiet that the previous generation needed to maintain to survive, and change the world for the better.
If you've ever read kite runner, this will much much more sense.
This song is legitimately about a refugee speaking to his son after a migration (As stated by Tim himself)
The refugee lashes out violently towards anyone that tries to help him achieve his ends because after leaving everything he had behind, believing in himself is all he has left, as everyone who's ever "helped" before has let him down.
After being reduced to a humble laborer, the refugee works to change the world that he has become a part of - nail by nail.
He then tells his son to do the same, and break the quiet that the previous generation needed to maintain to survive, and change the world for the better.