When I hear this song, I picture at first a young woman standing outside the hospital trying to hurry and smoke a cigarette to get back inside where her boyfriend is in critical condition and in a coma. She's not leaving him and he's saying, "Jesus Christ, if you tore my heart out - the only thing I'd feel is less alone." meaning he can't feel a thing in the state he's in, but if he were without his heart and didn't still love "Josephine" so much, he'd feel a lot less lonely laying there in his comatose state. (I am led to believe he's comatose because of "in this sterile room with blinding light and faces pointed down" and "you asked me if I'd pinch you but my fingers wouldn't bend").
He's saying that he'll be right behind her in spirit "even when my soul's an amputee" which means when his soul is detached from his body. Such a brilliant, brilliant line. Josh Woodward is a genius. When he's saying "there's nothing in this world we really own" he's referring to all the material things and people that we can't hold on to and can't take with us...and how heartbreaking that feels looking at the one you love while the wall of life and near-death is separating you. Judging by "I leave behind the rest", I think he dies near the end of the song.
That's just my take on it...it's a brilliantly written gorgeously performed acoustic masterpiece that I can't say enough good things about.
I just heard this song several months ago and it's become one of my all-time favorites already. Josh Woodward is a virtual unknown except in internet circles, right now, but he's easily more talented than most you hear on the radio these days. I'm a lifelong fan, now.
When I hear this song, I picture at first a young woman standing outside the hospital trying to hurry and smoke a cigarette to get back inside where her boyfriend is in critical condition and in a coma. She's not leaving him and he's saying, "Jesus Christ, if you tore my heart out - the only thing I'd feel is less alone." meaning he can't feel a thing in the state he's in, but if he were without his heart and didn't still love "Josephine" so much, he'd feel a lot less lonely laying there in his comatose state. (I am led to believe he's comatose because of "in this sterile room with blinding light and faces pointed down" and "you asked me if I'd pinch you but my fingers wouldn't bend").
He's saying that he'll be right behind her in spirit "even when my soul's an amputee" which means when his soul is detached from his body. Such a brilliant, brilliant line. Josh Woodward is a genius. When he's saying "there's nothing in this world we really own" he's referring to all the material things and people that we can't hold on to and can't take with us...and how heartbreaking that feels looking at the one you love while the wall of life and near-death is separating you. Judging by "I leave behind the rest", I think he dies near the end of the song.
That's just my take on it...it's a brilliantly written gorgeously performed acoustic masterpiece that I can't say enough good things about.
I just heard this song several months ago and it's become one of my all-time favorites already. Josh Woodward is a virtual unknown except in internet circles, right now, but he's easily more talented than most you hear on the radio these days. I'm a lifelong fan, now.