Pavement Cracks

Bit taken a back that no one has added more meanings to this song- it speaks alot about depression, which I believe that 1 in 4 have to some degree? perhaps even more.

This song explains my depression very well. Infact if I want to describe how things are, I use this song- its very simple in its description.

When you are "well" i.e not depressed, you don't notice the pavement cracks, the grief of life doesn't feel so heavy you can't breath and you can see people being kind to each other (even if its only afew!) . Its life, you accept it. Love exists, in many different forms. But when you become depressed, this goes. It just vanishes. You can't see the love, you see everything differently, sort of like someone has shon a new light on it- the love from a man to his wife becomes in your eyes, just sex, the love from a father to his son becomes an animal requirement, no love, just all machine like. In the end we are all separate, we are all alone. We will all die alone. No one cares, there is no love.

The song is about painting that out- there is no love in the pavement cracks meaning there is no love in the small passings from one person to another.

Thats me. But actually, the writer, (Annie Lennox) wrote this about her divorce. She was in the throws of a divorce and describing the separation you get when that happens (I can only imagine, as I have not been there). When you see that actually, there is no going back, no you cannot go back in time, you cannot have what you once had, the love is gone, the comfort zone is no more as the comfort you once sort from the relationship, from having someone at your side, is gone, you are alone and your life has changed, there is no going back, only going forward- I wish you well, is saying, good luck to you, we will both need it.