It is fairly clear that this song is about one of the characters (I'm not sure whether or not it's the boy or the girl) losing their 'beloved grandfather'.
If you look slightly more carefully at the lyrics it is noticeable that there is a play on a traditional technique in poetry for creating emotion in the reader, known as 'pathetic fallacy' - using description of the surroundings to add to the description of the emotion of the central character. So in a lot of fiction and poetry (and also film to a certain extent) if the central character is sad it will be a bleak kind of day/rainy/dark. Daniel Gildenlow turns this kind of imagery on its head - the character here is asking 'why this deep blue sky?' and 'why that sunny sky?' which in a converse way almost makes you feel for him/her more. It is like the character is wishing the rest of the world was sad with him - which, with some introspection and hindsight, is actually a much more honest way of representing how we react to loss and pain in our self-centred human lives than pathetic fallacy can ever be.
A beautiful and emotive song from a vocal and lyrical master.
It is fairly clear that this song is about one of the characters (I'm not sure whether or not it's the boy or the girl) losing their 'beloved grandfather'.
If you look slightly more carefully at the lyrics it is noticeable that there is a play on a traditional technique in poetry for creating emotion in the reader, known as 'pathetic fallacy' - using description of the surroundings to add to the description of the emotion of the central character. So in a lot of fiction and poetry (and also film to a certain extent) if the central character is sad it will be a bleak kind of day/rainy/dark. Daniel Gildenlow turns this kind of imagery on its head - the character here is asking 'why this deep blue sky?' and 'why that sunny sky?' which in a converse way almost makes you feel for him/her more. It is like the character is wishing the rest of the world was sad with him - which, with some introspection and hindsight, is actually a much more honest way of representing how we react to loss and pain in our self-centred human lives than pathetic fallacy can ever be.
A beautiful and emotive song from a vocal and lyrical master.