Death And The Healing

As for the "bird was I" phrase, you can essentially break grammar rules as long as you know what you're doing and have a good reason for breaking it. Grammar is not set in stone; it is flexible and inconstant. But if we want to talk about a case that is not justified in breaking grammar rules, what about the line, "But when the time got by, back to sky it flied"? If we want to be technical, "flied" is not the proper past tense form of "to fly," and "the time got by" is a very awkward phrase. This whole line could have been done in a different way so that it will both convey the meaning and fit the poetic form. I understand that these guys are not native English speakers, so I won't hold it against them.

As for the meaning of the lyrics, the song title conveys a bit of a contradiction--if one dies, one cannot be healed because death is the end of life. Healing means that one is hurt and made better, and no death is involved. This contradiction is a good thing because it gets us thinking about the nature of death. What I draw from all this is that the death of our bodies is not actually the end of all, but the end of a segment. We then heal and begin a new segment, just as we might within our own lives by breaking our arm and then having it heal, or even losing a loved one and moving on from the experience. All of this could be related to reincarnation; it's however you want to look at it. Furthermore, it says "'cause death is deceiving," which I take to mean that people misunderstand death as the end of all, but it is simply the end of one form of existence, one segment. The healing then moves you into another form of existence, and you really never die along the way because your spirit/energy endures. The line "Time is the past, now and tomorrow," conveys the circular way of viewing time, not the linear way. When we view time on a line, we often see a marked beginning and end. Nothing is before, and nothing is after. But when we view time as a circle and saying that time is all past, present, and future in one, existence is everlasting and death never truly happens. The line that doesn't seem to fit into this whole interpretation is "Days fly so fast and it leaves me so hollow" because it is the only negative line in the midst of this seemingly positive song. Why does time flying fast leave him hollow? I just can't understand how it fits with the rest of the lyrics. I would like to know what anyone else thinks about this entire interpretation, because there are still blanks to be filled in.

Overall, this song is absolutely awesome to listen to--musically it's one of my favorites ever.