Million Reasons

Although I have been playing this song for a while, it was not until something similar happened to me that I fully felt and not just understood its meaning. It is about one person giving everything, and the other giving next to nothing.

The speaker has been led on. They have found out about it through many ways. However, if there was an easy way (the highway), they would choose to go the harder route because that is their romantic character. But it doesn't mean they like chasing people--they would settle down ("be still") if that person reciprocated in the same way.

The speaker, seeks God for answers regarding this person. When they feel bad, they turn to religion. The leather even has significance: They want a higher power (the only hope they have) to reveal why this person is leading them on. The answer would help them discover the reason to stay.

In the next verse, the speaker is describing how they feel around this person. When you think about it from the outside, you might wonder why someone would want to be with a person who is leading them on. They feel like this love is real because it is natural and yet still they still feel lofty around them. When the person says something that is underneath their leather, it just confuses the speaker more because of the conflicting messages.

The bridge reveals that "every heartbreak," (not individual people, but rather every single repetitive reason), makes it harder for them to suppose it will work. However, one reason, not necessarily confirmation from the person, but rather their feelings for them, will make them stay connected.

This song is despondent because it shows how something illogical is indeed logical. I feel like this song understands me and it makes me feel better. I hope anyone reading this who now knows its true meaning garners something from it too.

i think songs can be interpreted in different ways, depending on listeners. To me personally this feels like a song about suicide. Like the narrator has millions of reasons to end their life, but just one good reason to not do it would be enough for them to keep living. the other, more likely, interpretation is that the narrator is contemplating whether or not to leave their significant other, who is giving them good reasons to, but the narrator wants the so to give them at least one reason not to.

To me, this song is from the perspective of a person at the final straws of their Christian faith. They have so many reasons to give up on religion, become an atheist etc. but they want to keep on believing for whatever reason. They find themselves pleading to God for just one shred of proof or reason to stay, but nothing comes. This is about as plain an anti-religion song can get.

And if you're wondering about the more romantic language, I think that was written there just to add some ambiguity, but it doesn't compromise the message, as oftentimes Christians use romantic language to describe their relationship with God (I would know, I was one)

Yea this can definitely go one of two ways.

1- Its about being in love with someone that really doesn't deserve it, they kind of just wish you to the way-side. But, just the same, you love them and you REALLY want them to fight for this love.

2- It could also be about losing someone you love. Suicide. I just recently lost someone a few years ago, in that form, and it really shakes your faith. It makes you angry. It makes you confused. It makes you feel like you lost something you will never get back.

IDK. I actually came here to see what everyone else thought. But unfortunately, there are only 2 comments. I really like this song and have been listening to it along with a handful of other songs. They make me super-moody. I try not to listen to stuff that makes me feel like... stuff anymore because it tends to turn negative. But, I really like this song so I listen anyway. Moody af.

I believe she stole the lyrics from the movie "Big Eyes" (2014). In one of the scenes actor Christoph Waltz says "don't think of a reason to say no, 'cause I have a million reasons to say yes."

Coincidence? I don't think so.

Being in a relationship with an alcoholic (addict).
The constant let downs, the lies, the degradation, the disappointment and broke promises. But you are always clinging to hope that your partner will get it together and pick you over his drink. You suffer in silence, whilst most of your friends and family don't understand what you are living with. But you keep holding on to that little bit of hope for sobriety, until you realize you are the only one fighting for the relationship or for that person's wellness.