Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
What ravages of spirit
Conjured this tempestuous rage
Created you a monster
Broken by the rule of love
And fate has led you through it
You do what you have to do
And fate has led you through it
You do what you have to do
And I have the sense to recognize that
I don't know how to let you go
Every moment marked
With apparitions of your soul
I'm ever swiftly moving
Trying to escape this desire
The yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
The yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
And I have the sense to recognize that
I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go
A glowing ember
Burning hot
And burning slow
Deep within I'm shaken by the violence
Of existing for only you
I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do
I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do
And I have a sense to recognize but
I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go
(I don't know how to let you go)
Conjured this tempestuous rage
Created you a monster
Broken by the rule of love
And fate has led you through it
You do what you have to do
And fate has led you through it
You do what you have to do
And I have the sense to recognize that
I don't know how to let you go
Every moment marked
With apparitions of your soul
I'm ever swiftly moving
Trying to escape this desire
The yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
The yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
And I have the sense to recognize that
I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go
A glowing ember
Burning hot
And burning slow
Deep within I'm shaken by the violence
Of existing for only you
I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do
I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do
And I have a sense to recognize but
I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go
(I don't know how to let you go)
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Now to the lyric. "What ravages of spirit/ conjured this temptuous rage" is right our of book 1 of the Aeneid. It talks about the anger of the spirits and the fate of the man, Aeneas. "And fate has led you through it" is there as well, "fato profugus," in latin. "Apparitions of your soul" is something that happens in the Aeneid, after Aeneas leaves dido, and she dreams him. "trying to escape this desire" surely refers to Dido longing for Aeneas and trying to forget him. The verse beginning with "a glowing ember" is one of the parts that really convinces me. They talk about Dido burning as if embers inside of her were hot and burning with this desire for him (that's partially the gods doing) and it also foreshadows her death upon the pyre.
That's what this song is, a love song and a suicide song.
Wow, thanks for this. I like to relate songs to something real. Like what the artist actually intended the song to mean, or something similar.
Yes, That's right. I remember reading some of the Aeneid after watching the play once many, many years ago. I've seen a screen play recently and some of the lines were repeated. "....conjured this temptuous rage" was quoted as "tempestuous" rather than "temptuous" but yes I'll go along with that.