After loving this song for years, a very fitting meaning came to me based on my current situation.
To me it's about two people falling in love with each other while mending broken pieces of their hearts.
I will interpret it as if I am the one telling this story, singing this song.
Oh I was sent to find the lonesome place
Where I was lost but left to trace
By carving riddles on the lonesome vine.
After going through a bad breakup of 3 years, I was in a state for months where I was telling myself I can make it alone, I don't need anyone else to be happy. Which is true, but what if someone else is there waiting for you?
Hence "walking into the vision of some vacant mind". Someone else is there also looking for love, and by just being me, I walked into their life.
Oh once I held a pony by its flying mane,
And once I called the shadow in the turning game
These two lines aren't 100% clear to me, but bring about a feeling of caring for the person I love.
To me the "stranger that you should fear" isn't a literal person, it's a version of myself that is guarding my heart. That is afraid to be completely honest and genuine. So I won't be your burden of tomorrow dear. I won't confuse you, I won't make you wonder.
A Savior's on the border of the sun
Swings on the chambers of your guns.
And tries to shoot the chord and light the path.
To me these are my friends and her friends who can see we have feelings for each other, and try to encourage us to go for it. To me the sun is an apt metaphor for a person I love: like the sun is overwhelming to look at directly, it takes an overwhelming amount of honesty to face the person you are falling for and look them directly in the eyes.
Aw but hell I'm just a blind man on the plains,
I drink my water when it rains,
And live by chance among the lightning strikes.
I wasn't aware that she might feel the same way I do and was just living my life. To me the lighting strikes are moments when I thought, "wait a minute, are there some mutual feelings here?!"
Oh once I held a glacier to an open flame
And once I felt like wildcat in the fallen game.
I dethawed my icy, guarded heart. Feeling like a wildcat eating its prey; opening your heart is messy and brings out a lot of pain, not just for you but for the person you bear it to.
Oh the singers on the edge to feed the canyons mouth
They will go on forever til they sing you out of time.
Our friends and people close to us that contribute to our doubts that we will make this work bring us farther apart, and that will always be the case. We have to trust ourselves and what we feel in our hearts.
Beautiful song. Even if that isn't the intended meaning, it means so much to me. Thank you Kristian.
After loving this song for years, a very fitting meaning came to me based on my current situation.
To me it's about two people falling in love with each other while mending broken pieces of their hearts.
I will interpret it as if I am the one telling this story, singing this song.
Oh I was sent to find the lonesome place Where I was lost but left to trace By carving riddles on the lonesome vine.
After going through a bad breakup of 3 years, I was in a state for months where I was telling myself I can make it alone, I don't need anyone else to be happy. Which is true, but what if someone else is there waiting for you?
Hence "walking into the vision of some vacant mind". Someone else is there also looking for love, and by just being me, I walked into their life.
Oh once I held a pony by its flying mane, And once I called the shadow in the turning game
These two lines aren't 100% clear to me, but bring about a feeling of caring for the person I love.
To me the "stranger that you should fear" isn't a literal person, it's a version of myself that is guarding my heart. That is afraid to be completely honest and genuine. So I won't be your burden of tomorrow dear. I won't confuse you, I won't make you wonder.
A Savior's on the border of the sun Swings on the chambers of your guns. And tries to shoot the chord and light the path.
To me these are my friends and her friends who can see we have feelings for each other, and try to encourage us to go for it. To me the sun is an apt metaphor for a person I love: like the sun is overwhelming to look at directly, it takes an overwhelming amount of honesty to face the person you are falling for and look them directly in the eyes.
Aw but hell I'm just a blind man on the plains, I drink my water when it rains, And live by chance among the lightning strikes.
I wasn't aware that she might feel the same way I do and was just living my life. To me the lighting strikes are moments when I thought, "wait a minute, are there some mutual feelings here?!"
Oh once I held a glacier to an open flame And once I felt like wildcat in the fallen game.
I dethawed my icy, guarded heart. Feeling like a wildcat eating its prey; opening your heart is messy and brings out a lot of pain, not just for you but for the person you bear it to.
Oh the singers on the edge to feed the canyons mouth They will go on forever til they sing you out of time.
Our friends and people close to us that contribute to our doubts that we will make this work bring us farther apart, and that will always be the case. We have to trust ourselves and what we feel in our hearts.
Beautiful song. Even if that isn't the intended meaning, it means so much to me. Thank you Kristian.