Hymn For The Missing

this is GOD talking to us. we are the lost, and we need to find our way back to him.

Basically, it's about a relationship. It could be a boy-girl, or a parent-child, or friend-friend relationship. Basically, though, assuming it isn't a parent-child relationship, it seems to be about growing apart from an important person in your life. You feel that you are on the right track in life, but (it implies) that they are on the wrong track in life. You want them back, but you've grown too far apart, and the void seems impenetrable. This would definitely make sense with a boy-girl relationship.

The whole concept of the album is about finding your identity. This song seems to be about losing someone important to you, which definitely has a huge effect on your identity.

I think the title tells me all. I feel it's about someone who has lost another (who has vanished/kidnapped or passed on) like how a parent loses a child when they go missing.

I can see this in two senses. One of which I'm currently going through.

The first is he's lost himself, can't find him, and is wondering if the half of himself he lost is looking for him too, like a missing person. Just in this case, a soul-searching type of missing. I'm currently going through this myself with some things that my ex has said that has caused me to go into some deep depressions and this song totally gives off that same type of vibe.

The second, believe it or not, is a relationship that didn't really end, it just vanished from both parties. Both asleep, and then one of them wakes up and leaves. As if to leave no trace behind. The party that is hurt, lost and confused is trying to figure out why they left.

'This heart I misplaced' he put his heart into the relationship, and now that it's over, he knows he put too much of himself in it.

I've read a lot of different interpretations of this song, so it could be like another one of Red's song, "Darkest Part", which was written with multiple "correct" interpretations. I personally think that this song was written about a deceased family member or friend. In the beginning of the song it says "Thought you were beside me, but I reached and you were gone, sometimes I hear you calling'', I think it's talking about all the memories of this person and how they (person's who is singing) are slowly losing memories of them and kind of moving on.At the part that starts with "Where are you now", and ends with "Will I see you again" I interpret that the person's perspective this is coming from is kind of doubting the bible/Christ. As Christians, everyone at one point or another questions/doubts God's word, especially after the death of someone close. The heartbreak after the death of someone close is devastating and you wonder, "will I ever see them again", etc. That's by interpretation of "Hymn for the Missing".

I think it's about, some who ran away from home "where are you now? Are you lost? Will I find you again? Why did you go? I had to stay. Now I'm reaching for you." He's wondering where. He/she went. They ran away and he's hoping to find them soon. Why did they have to leave? "why did you go I had to stay" is saying why did they gave to leave him. "Took it when you when you left the scars are just a trace." Took his heart, his everything when they left. "Now it wonders lost and wounded this heart that I missplaced." He lost himself when that person left.

That's just my opinion that's what it sounds like to me.. I love this song <3 it!!!

Ok I think this song is about a friendship between two close friends and they have been having problems and the one friend wants to try and fix it and they have had these types of problems before. The other friend has given up on that friend and leaves them. The first friend is now wondering if they will ever see them again and is asking for forgiveness. While doing this the first friend wonders a lot of things about the other friend like of they are afraid if that is the end of a good friendship

I believe this song could be dialogue between two different people but it also could be dialogue between God and a man. The first verse "I tried to walk together, But the night was growing dark, Thought you were beside me, But I reached and you were gone, Sometimes I hear you calling" is man's confession that he has lost God. The chorus in the song is God's response, "Where are you now, Are you lost, Will I find you again, Are you alone, Are you afraid, Are you searching for me?"

The song as a whole seems to be compatible with the story which the album is based off of, Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. It seems to be from the main character Orual's perspective, talking to Psyche, another character. Can anyone think of a modern day Orual-Psyche relationship, for those who have read the book?

i absolutley love this song....i know this is supposed to be God talking to us. but i can also see it as me talking to my friend who jus randomly decided hey i dont want anything to do with you anymore and now wont ttm....so this song depresses the crap outa me....