Elysium

Every part of this song is heart-breaking and beautiful. I think the entire meaning of this song can be taken from the song itself: "Just hope that age does not erase all that you've seen." This song is an older brother talking to his younger brother and pleading him to never grow up. 'Adulthood' is sometimes best characterized by feeling stuck in everyday, mundane routines that consume your life and your mind. Your passions fade and your hope diminishes. In childhood, we are filled with hope for the future because we're naive. I think this naiveness though is where the beauty of innocence and youth comes from and people so easily lose it because of the efforts of growing up. As long as we retain our childish hopes and dreams, all else will be fine. It also seems that the speaker in this song is somewhere in the inbetween - as if he was growing up and fine and they it hit him that he lost his hope and looks back to his little brother and warns him, begs him, pleads him to never lose hope. When you lose hope, you lose who you truly are. This song is about the beauty of youth. Reminds me of Le Petit Prince. Brilliant.

Such a beautiful song. I feel the person is looking at his younger brother while thinking of how hard life can get sometimes. He sees his brother still without worries and says "I've never felt so enlightened, with every page I turn I only find myself feeling more alone". He stresses that the darkness will come someday in your life and you'll have nowhere to go but to embrace that that's sometimes the way things go. While getting older, you might lose hope sometimes.

But then the song takes a shift, the music starts getting more wild and I feel he looks at him and thinks: but when I look at you, I realize there's so much to live for, so much to hope for. It feels like looking at him gives him hope again and he prays that his brother would always keep that hope: "guard your hope with your life".

Simply amazing.