Muddy Waters

To me it is about how painful life can be.

"We are kneeling at the rivers edge and tempting All the steps to follow closer right behind Is it only when you feel a part is empty That it’s gnawing at the corners of your mind"

It is only when you feel at your lowest, when you feel lost and alone, like no one understands you that it starts to remind you that it most likely isn't the first time, or the last time.

The chorus to mean represents how all you can do is beg and hope blindly that it takes sympathy for you, but even then you acknowledge that it won't be the last time you'll ask for some respite.

"It is not clear why we choose the fire pathway Where we end is not the way that we had planned All the spirits gather 'round like its our last day To get across you know we’ll have to raise the sand"

We make stupid choices, or hard choice that go wrong. When we fail, we are judged for it and the only way to get across is an impossibility. The last sentence had a Moses vibe for me. He split the oceans apart, but another likely alternative would have been to raise the land; make a land bridge. Obviously we cannot do that and if we still choose to walk through, we'll likely drown.

The last chorus is the only part that makes me feel whether she is talking to life or some other figure, vs talking to a loved one or some literal person they are asking for help. It could quite easily just be a personification of life. In the end she asks for help and feels like life sold her out and hung her out to dry.

I can intimitly relate to this song... I cried the first time I heard...

When Laura says kneeling at waters edge is praying; the water is the flow of our spirits connection with others in relationship, when people feel empty they fill it with some kind of addiction to numb, these words used are a sin apon ourselves in form of lies in ourselves to distrust is an addiction to keep foccus on to numb & rongly judge others closest to us, pushing them away (knawing at the corners of our minds) the devils words to trust in instead.

Her being wrongly judged, she begs Mercy for she doesn't see the way she is being labled ,coming in blind. What you'll see is the worst me, explaining this wrong negitive judgment. She still has belief that she's not the last of her kind, to NOT be thinking the way she's being labled as general people may think.

Fire pathway is destructive thinking that can end in a way not planned by you or by the spirit intentions, to get through raising sand is removing things that slow us down on our path.

In the muddy waters of the flow of spirit & relationship with oneanother, it becomes muddy because of the wrong judgments clouding the connections, causeing us to crawl and beg... being held down & sold out by listening to lies in our heads to wrongly judge. Labeling someone's character wrongly holds them down to that lable... believing the lie is selling out for the devils words in the head,, against the actual person's intentions!