Favorite Song

This song is so great… “What if everything you had was like a castle made of sand? Would you open up your hand or hold on tight?” If you think about it, this line is the absolute greatest. When you go to a beach, you might want to try this out: holding onto sand too tight forces it out of the tiny cracks between your fingers, and opening up your hand while you have sand in it makes the sand fall out. Either way you lose the sand. So if everything you had were to be made up of sand, wouldn’t it all be lost eventually? Haven’t all castles that have been made, crumbled. Does anything last forever?

“There's no one left to sing along with you tonight.” When everything crumbles, when everything ends, who will still be there for you? Who will help you remember what went right after everything’s gone wrong?

“Everything is alright, I will see you tonight. Everything you want is in your hands.” A this point, the singer is basically saying that he will help you remember the goodness in the world when it seems that it has vanished. That he’ll find you and make you realize that everything you’ve always wanted, is what you always had.

“And I can't help you decide the battles you fight inside. And what hurts you, you don't understand.” Now the singer is saying that no matter what happens, you have to realize that you make your own decisions. When things don’t go how you planned or how you wanted them to, it confuses you because pain isn’t something you want to feel. Things ending in pain isn’t how it was planned.

“And it feels like there's nothing right and it’s all the same to you anyway.” This line really shows you that even though things seem as though they aren’t right, it’s as right as they can be. Because no matter what, you will always feel the way you feel inside, and no matter what good comes in the world, you’re always going to feel the same.

“And that place you wish for is just outside your front door. Still, it never seemed so far away.” Now it goes back to the point that everything you ever wanted, is what you’ve always had. And it’s taken losing that [thing that you never knew you always wanted] to realize that it was what you wanted from the start.

And at the end of the song, the whole light/dark comparison I find pretty strong. How you wait for the sun [light] to come and make things better, but how even when the sun is out, all you let people see is your shadow [dark].