I saw the future in a tree outside.
There was your heart, and there was mine.
This love, torn apart by every word.
Is hopeless love all we have?
Is this what we dreamed?
I cannot go.
Take this heart let it die slow.
Tear away from the pain.
Tear away from the red.
Are we trading in our hearts for emptiness?
Is this love or human condition?
I close my eyes to see you.
Hope is in your name.
Where you are I cannot go.
Take, this heart and let it go


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    I think this song is simply about god and how human kind went away from him to make their own way.

    There was your heart, and there was mine. This love, torn apart by every word. [by every word we spoke]

    Is hopeless love all we have? Is this what we dreamed? [we dreamed about having no god, but obviously it wasn't enough for us]

    I cannot go. Take this heart let it die slow. Tear away from the pain. Tear away from the red. [he can't turn away from jesus. His human heart (which loves this wold) should die and jesus / god should tear him away from all the pain]

    Are we trading in our hearts for emptiness? Is this love or human condition? [because we left god, we just have emptiness in us, and we cannot fill that hole in our hearts]

    I close my eyes to see you. Hope is in your name. Where you are I cannot go. [well, I guess he questions jesus to come back in his life again ... "hope is in your name" makes it quite sure for me, cause Kyle is christian. And I'm quite sure he knows that there is no hope in women or men at all, cause we're all sinner]

    IPlayDeadon May 04, 2009   Link

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