| Passenger – Holes Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| For me, there is one line that jumps out at me: "When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose." The man lost everything in the fire, and when he didn't wake up, "they were gonna ask his mother to choose", and had they taken him off life support, he would have lost his life. All too often, we get caught up in the material things, but when he lost it all, he realised that things aren't the most important part of life. He tells how "I miss it like a hole in my head", meaning that he would rather live with that realisation than go back, have all his things again, and not know what truly matters. He doesn't regret that lesson, and he doesn't miss that past where he didn't know. Without being chained down by things, he has nothing to lose and can live his life fully. He may have lost everything, but life carries on. As for the woman, I am honestly puzzled as to who or what the wolf is, but I have two ideas. Either the wolf is the landlord, and she is trying to keep the roof over her family's head- or the wolf is simply a memory, the memory of being left, the memory of the man, the memory of what is missing. The woman says, "The wolf's just a puppy, and the door's double locked so why you gotta worry me for?" If the wolf is only a memory, by calling it a puppy, she is basically stating how that part of the past doesn't matter now. The locks may represent how she is shutting out the memory. She is no longer tied to that memory, so she isn't worried. She very well could have clung to the past, just like the man very well could have clung to things, but she realised that with or without her husband, life carries on. There are two other lines that give me ideas, but I'll address them one at a time. The first line says, "Well somtimes you can't change and you can't choose." There are some people who can go through the same scenarios and never be able change, much less, see the option to do so. The next line says, "And sometimes it seems you gain less than you lose." From the perspective of those who are skeptical to the change and all, it doesn't seem like it will quote-unquote "pay off" for them in the end. But the keyword in this line is "seems"; for those who learned and changed, they gained SO much more than they lost. | |
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