Haven't Got Time For The Pain

The final verse is the key verse, it goes from insanely sad with "Suffering was the only thing that made me feel I was alive Though that's just how much it cost to survive in this world" to Tears of Joy with "'til you showed me how, how to fill my heart with love How to open up and drink in all that white light Pouring down from the heaven" One extreme to the other! Basically, its just about someone who always tended to be sad but has found someone that has given them so much happiness that its changed their whole outlook on life, to where they literally no longer have "time for the pain"! Such a beautiful moving song! BTW-When I was in college this song was used in a commercial & my roommates response was "What about on weekends? Do you have time or the pain then?" LOL

Based on her memoir Boys in the Trees, she wrote this for her therapist, who taught her to walk away from depression.

I take this song to mean that the singer\'s contentment is no longer contingent on another person, place or thing. Someone taught her how to transcend being at the mercy of circumstances, events or other people controlling their emotions and instead now receive their happiness from heaven, a more dependable source.