Starlight

I meant "ignite", not "alight".

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@bohemianbanshee This interpretation brought me to tears. Over a year ago, I met the love of my life to whom I will soon be engaged, and I cannot even imagine the loss. The grief you felt in 2011 must have been devastating. Thank you for taking the time years ago to share it.<br /> <br /> Something I haven't seen mentioned on this thread, which may be of relevance--from the astrophysical perspective, a star, if massive enough, eventually collapses into a black hole after its lifespan ends. The same type of black hole believed to be at the center of our lovely Milky Way galaxy. The same hole Stephen Hawking lost a bet about with regard to information being lost within it, and in Sep 2015 came up with a theory of how information is instead stored in the event horizon, the outer edges of the black hole...<br /> <br /> We don't know what happens after death. Or what happens to a conscious being after entering a black hole. But if information is preserved within even a black hole system, perhaps at the event horizon, maybe, just maybe, the information can be transmitted across time and space...<br /> <br /> Sounds like you received a communication from the unknown. Muse, as any artist would, has an appreciation of the unknown. Your sharing has also allowed me to appreciate another dimension of this song--the black hole following the death of hopes and expectations, results in revelations... and the holding, within particles, mass-energy, whatever mysterious substance that consciousness is made of... has been, and always will be.<br />

@Snailfish I'm glad you got something positive from what I typed. I was so incredibly upset back then, but felt compelled to share that experience, and what the song meant to me. I didn't know what you wrote about black holes. That makes it all even more interesting, so thanks for sharing! Good luck to you and your fiancée. :)

@bohemianbanshee I read the reply about blackholes and it made me cry even more added to your interpretation. I also want to add something similar that I read in a book. I think your fiancee wanted to tell you something like this:<br /> <br /> ""I will love you forever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the<br /> land of the dead, I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again..."<br /> <br /> "And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you...We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams...And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won't just be able to take one , they'll have to take two , one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight..."<br /> <br /> this is as if paricles that that make our beings have memory and the energy that moves us all (love) does not end, because energy cannot be destroyed even if matter can.<br /> Sorry if my reply is too cheesy I just thought you should read those lines. Thank you for sharing your experience it takes a lot of courage to be that open.

@vieenrose Thank you, I love what you wrote and don't think it's cheesy at all. :)

@bohemianbanshee Oh My God!! You're still looking and contributing to this site as of January 2016! I sent a personal message to you a year later (this last January) and just wanted to connect and see how you were doing. I love your words and interpretations and amazing openness and that's what compelled me to reply to what you wrote about Black Balloon years ago!! I hope (however long ago that was) you took a look at "Iris" and the line "you'd bleed just to know you're alive". Please! Please! Send me a private message...even to say "Get Lost"....which I hope you wont. I'm not looking for a long term correspondence....it just would do my soul so much good to hear from you again....if you wouldn't mind. I got so much from the love story that you shared about your boyfriend!!<br /> Steve

@bohemianbanshee I absolutely LOVE your interpretation best! It made me tear up. I hope that after all of these years you have moved on to find love again and build a life with someone wonderful knowing that all of the loves of our life are a collective. One much like what @Snailfish described about their interpretation from yours. I think you both were so completely spot on! I beliveve everyone who is special to us in our lives is waiting like stored information tucked away in a safe place and that all of this love doesn't rival newer loves but blends with and adds to them all.

@altamber8, Thank you for your reply. My beliefs are very similar to what you describe. For a long time after my fiancee's death, I was afraid that becoming involved with other people would change my energy and take me farther away from what we had together, but I think you're right, everything just blends.