Everything But Me

Great song, however the third line is wrong

Instead of "If I'd have known it meant my suitcase" it should be "Found a note hidden in my suitcase" ;)

no matter how many miles stand in between in my heart is where you"ll be holdin' on to all our dreams

with everything, everything but me

these last word really important, because the person tells the reader that he is holding on with everything, but not himself. this phrase explain that the person is on a very-very long distance, he want to help anything, want to sacrifice anything he could, but he couldn't, because he wasn't there.

It's about a long distance relationship for sure. In this song the pain of being far away from the only one about is described. You can have everything present in your life but when your only one is missing it makes a big difference in a negative way. "Holding on to all our dreams": i think here, chris tried to explain the feeling of hope which gives the strength to long distance lovers.

May God grant hope and strength to all people who are miles away from their loved ones.

My interpretation of this song comes from my personal experience. To me, this song is about death of a spouse,losing your person. And it’s a song from the one that passed away, Telling the one left to look around your still surrounded by everything everything but me. The person left grieving and looking through photos. The passed on person looking at the photos with them. Haven’t seen that smile in a while.
It feels like a conversation between a lost loved one and the one left grieving their loss. But like I said, that’s my personal experience. My late husband was a songwriter, he use to tell me that the best songs are deeply personal to the individual listener, and if one song can speak to the souls of many people in drastically different ways, then you have a great song. And this one is just that. A great song, Thank you to everyone responsible for the birth of this beautiful piece of art. It has helped me through so many dark and difficult nights, I feel like this is a message from my husband to me. I hope he can see how hard I am trying to hold on to all of Our dreams, and I pray he can see our new granddaughter also, But even being surrounded by everything, everything but him, makes my world seem so wrong, I apologize for this being such a sad post, I never do this kind of thing. I just felt I needed to share what this beautiful song means to me, personally, I don’t know if anyone else will even see it the same way. And that’s okay. Music therapy is a personal journey. This music has certainly helped me in my journey. Safe travels in your life’s adventures to all that read this.