Ok, here's the way the story was told to me. Ryan Miller wrote this song for a couple who lost their one of their children to suicide. The song is written for that couple and attempts to both express the feelings they have, and solutions to it. It's an extremely powerful song, and here's how I interpret it.
The shock that your young child has just committed suicide clouds the realization that you could not have done anything to stop him. You couldn't have, for example, come home from work early, caught him in the act, and saved his life. It's a lie to tell yourself that if you had done something differently he would still be alive. How can you blame his actions for what you are feeling right now, that's only killing yourself, and it's carrying you away into ideas that aren't true. "Dissolve your fear into one." I honestly love this line to death. It says to me, you have to let it go, you have to let yourself not forget him, but forget the instance, let it dissolve away, and the song says that it will dissolve away in time. So then it's true that we aren't immune to all the talks of tragedies, it's true that it really can happen to anyone. There's a way out of this pain (dissolving), but you can't even see this yet because you're still in denial of this event happening. To try and understand why he killed himself....it will get you no where and you will not ever understand it. To try and find the meaning....you're lying to yourself again. And then i think Ryan really speaks to people his beliefs of how to deal with this...and no one expresses it better than him. So interpreting...
To be able to right the wrong that he's made
is To try and understand why he did it
is To finally figure
that It's in his plans
To leave it alone and just let it be
is To find a way
To (finally) figure out
that It's not your fault
Huge, huge, huge....this song has helped me through many hard times...and i hope that with this interpretation, it will do the same for you.
Ok, here's the way the story was told to me. Ryan Miller wrote this song for a couple who lost their one of their children to suicide. The song is written for that couple and attempts to both express the feelings they have, and solutions to it. It's an extremely powerful song, and here's how I interpret it.
The shock that your young child has just committed suicide clouds the realization that you could not have done anything to stop him. You couldn't have, for example, come home from work early, caught him in the act, and saved his life. It's a lie to tell yourself that if you had done something differently he would still be alive. How can you blame his actions for what you are feeling right now, that's only killing yourself, and it's carrying you away into ideas that aren't true. "Dissolve your fear into one." I honestly love this line to death. It says to me, you have to let it go, you have to let yourself not forget him, but forget the instance, let it dissolve away, and the song says that it will dissolve away in time. So then it's true that we aren't immune to all the talks of tragedies, it's true that it really can happen to anyone. There's a way out of this pain (dissolving), but you can't even see this yet because you're still in denial of this event happening. To try and understand why he killed himself....it will get you no where and you will not ever understand it. To try and find the meaning....you're lying to yourself again. And then i think Ryan really speaks to people his beliefs of how to deal with this...and no one expresses it better than him. So interpreting...
To be able to right the wrong that he's made is To try and understand why he did it is To finally figure that It's in his plans
To leave it alone and just let it be is To find a way To (finally) figure out that It's not your fault
Huge, huge, huge....this song has helped me through many hard times...and i hope that with this interpretation, it will do the same for you.