All the Little Lights Lyrics
This song suggests a rather endearing notion that our hearts are filled with little lights which, as life goes by and things change, go out one by one.
This song is about the little lights, resembling love and the sparks of joy within every human soul, motivating us and keeping us enjoying life.
The progression of this song suggests that, as one gets older and more mature, the lights die out through disappointment, grief and the realization of powerlessness in the face of tragic events around us. The outcome is that eventually all lights die out one day, leaving behind someone without passion, without the spark that makes life bearable.
This song makes me think of a time when I was updating my contacts in my smartphone, I suddenly realized that some people's number or texts only exist in my old phone, not my new one. They are just like the continually darkening lights in my life, and I know one day they'll all burn down, like they've never existed in my life. Here's my interpretations of the song: https://en.lineday.co/passenger-little-lights-lyrics-meaning/
This is about someone experiencing nostalgic feelings, he's recalling all the warm cheerful heartwarming moments in his life that ignited a light in his soul. The premise of the song is that a human is born with these lights in our hearts that light up every time we experience love, and they turn off when those moments are gone. That's why he feels darkness in his heart. He no longer lives the things he mentions in the song, The light that was brought to him by his uncle ben and the house he grew up in are just memories now. I think this song is quite amazing and it captures the mixture of feelings nostalgia sets in you perfectly, the warmth of old memories combined with the sourness of knowing that these things are gone.
The lights in the song are the innocence and the purity of heart and emotions, they get corrupted with betrayal, loss, grief and many other things, The song symbolizes these lights saying that as the life progresses these lights will eventually go out, and the lights which made the person the joyful, pure and loving person, that will change, and in the end he would be corrupted completely by the world, and its ways, and that would be his last day.
Your sparks will run out but those sparks alltogether are transformed into a beautiful new star of the universe.