Swing Low Sail High

The narrator has (as is clearly stated) failed someone they love and want forgiveness. But beyond that, I think that they are also just pondering life (and death, in the last verse) "I have waited, I have waited...but there's no one who makes it all come true," makes me think that they are realizing that they really love the person, and life, and that they're really ready to "look the whole thing in the eye." This is a powerful song that feels like it was written right before the narrator goes back to the person they love, and the life they want to live, and confronts their fears as a stronger person than they were recently. This song always puts me in a good mood :)

This is a profoundly beautiful song. For me, it helps me deal with the guilt I feel not being more there for people, closing my own heart at times, and ways I've fooled myself into thinking one person will fulfill me, and the mystery of life and death, and a deep, abiding sense of meaning and sweetness , the sense that The Whole of LIfe is so beautiful and valuable that it makes all the tough stuff worth enduring. We just have to find a way to bravely "look the whole thing in the eye", so we can sail high one more time after each episode of swinging low.