Okay, so you can all hate me if you think im wrong, but this is ONE of the meanings i believe....... the guy who' singing is dead or a ghost (not neccessarily Clint, though we love him) and he is trying to tell this girl he has left behind that he loves her, but she cant hear him. So when he says
"I’ll just pretend
I am always by your side" he means that he is always with her, even if she feels that no-one loves her or she's alone, he will always be there. As for the whole 'Phoenix' thing, when he sings "There’s always something in the way (regret)" he could mean that he's dead, and 'regret' means that he wishes he were alive so that she knew how much he loved her. He wishes he could be alive again, thus the meaning of a phoenix rising form the ashes to live again.
Okay, so you can all hate me if you think im wrong, but this is ONE of the meanings i believe....... the guy who' singing is dead or a ghost (not neccessarily Clint, though we love him) and he is trying to tell this girl he has left behind that he loves her, but she cant hear him. So when he says "I’ll just pretend I am always by your side" he means that he is always with her, even if she feels that no-one loves her or she's alone, he will always be there. As for the whole 'Phoenix' thing, when he sings "There’s always something in the way (regret)" he could mean that he's dead, and 'regret' means that he wishes he were alive so that she knew how much he loved her. He wishes he could be alive again, thus the meaning of a phoenix rising form the ashes to live again.