Every Person

I love the line "For I am her as much as I'm me".

For some reason, it really resonates with me.

This a really beautiful and moving song I love it so much

I think hes trying to suggest a way to think about life - to think of life in the context of past, present, and future. Once you do this I think he is saying that the result is that you can get the most out of the present time.

"Every day is each day thats past." "A hand's all I feel right now. It's all I am."

Acknowledging the pasts affect on the present, and then taking advantage of thinking this way by getting the maximum out of the present.

Tough song to understand - but very good nonetheless.

his songs are always so deep thinking id love to see him do something like this w/ aks lyrics in rhcp.

"you know this moment in time is all my life, every day is each day thats passed, every person alive is everyone who's died" The only time you really have any control over is the present, but at the same time everyone, and everything, from the past affects you, your views on things, and how you change the present.

you take me by the hand a hands all i feel right now its all i am its all that i am

wanted to be cared for but has not got the love around him he feels that all he is is.... (whatever comes to your mind)

you think that im a man i beg to differ for i am her as much as im me

you thnk that he is strong but really hes weak (using the sterotypical point of veiw sayin weome are weak)

you know this moment in time is all my life (what is says really)

every day is each day thats past every person alaive is everyone whos died every day someone dies and then forgotten about but the people who greive dont know or realize that they are still alaive (if you catch me)

a ship out in the distance is here if i draw it- imaginative stuff (maybe chidhood memories not too sure)

multiply time by letting it go by- time is better if you dont think about it you paint a star you give many years ago new life and it apprecates it you gave your love many years ago to someone and they appr it

"A ship out in the distance is here if i draw it"

I think that it means that he can try to change his fate, it may not be a ship in the distance, but he will try to make it "appear"

I expressed myself wrong, the ship may be out in the distance, but he can try to get it closer

I think it means something about we as people repeating the past, having past lives and our present life is a repeat of our past lives. The "I am her as much as I am me" I think means that he feels he's lived as woman before and all these lives he's lived before (as men and women) make him who he is now; so he's "her" someone he was in the past as much as he iswho he is now.

Well, I wouldn't agree totally with mrsfrusciante, but then again most John's lyrics can be interpreted and understood on million ways.

Anyway, this is certainly one of my all-time favourite songs.

I believe that it speaks about love and art. Or love for art. Or whatever you want it to... ;)