I can't suggest a meaning for the entire song but I can offer a few for smaller parts.
Miserere apparently is a latin term for "have mercy!"
A man who walked down the street with a white robe and no shoes sounds like someone from a hospital, possibly a psych patient, but people ignore him, coz he's weird or whatever...
As for:
"Or a woman who could not remember her name,
Did stutter and stutter again and again,
And saw you and called you her son,
Her eyes said
“My being is gone, but still I’m not dead”
...That is spot on for dementia/alzheimers. She can't remember her name and stutters, and she thinks everyone is her son. Very typical. And the bit about her eyes means that anything recognisable and any part of her mind is gone but her body lives on.
"Have you ever been so happy that you’re sad,
That the lights turn to stars,
And the stars become eyes,
And hellos are goodbyes,
And the laughs are the sighs,
And the show disappears with a note
Until next time"
Maybe this is realizing the shortness of life at the same time as appreciating the beauty of it. It could work...
I can't suggest a meaning for the entire song but I can offer a few for smaller parts.
Miserere apparently is a latin term for "have mercy!"
A man who walked down the street with a white robe and no shoes sounds like someone from a hospital, possibly a psych patient, but people ignore him, coz he's weird or whatever...
As for: "Or a woman who could not remember her name, Did stutter and stutter again and again, And saw you and called you her son, Her eyes said “My being is gone, but still I’m not dead”
...That is spot on for dementia/alzheimers. She can't remember her name and stutters, and she thinks everyone is her son. Very typical. And the bit about her eyes means that anything recognisable and any part of her mind is gone but her body lives on.
"Have you ever been so happy that you’re sad, That the lights turn to stars, And the stars become eyes, And hellos are goodbyes, And the laughs are the sighs, And the show disappears with a note Until next time"
Maybe this is realizing the shortness of life at the same time as appreciating the beauty of it. It could work...
but any other suggestions would be good.