There's definitely a feeling of a dark cloud hanging over one's head in this song- and it comes as much from the atmosphere and the melody as the lyric.
I first heard this song when my husband was diagnosed with cancer. At the time I felt like the song was about watching someone you love fade away.
Time is precious, ("Time is on the table and the dinner's cold"); Wishing that you could make time stand still ("endless summer") and "lift the curse"; bargaining with a higher being ("birds talk to me, if I go down on my knees"); and wanting to make all the pain and the chaos go away and exist only in your "private universe".
I believe Kyms' story about the song, but this is what it will always be about to me. It's a great example of how the true meaning of a song is ultimately in the mind of the listener.
There's definitely a feeling of a dark cloud hanging over one's head in this song- and it comes as much from the atmosphere and the melody as the lyric.
I first heard this song when my husband was diagnosed with cancer. At the time I felt like the song was about watching someone you love fade away. Time is precious, ("Time is on the table and the dinner's cold"); Wishing that you could make time stand still ("endless summer") and "lift the curse"; bargaining with a higher being ("birds talk to me, if I go down on my knees"); and wanting to make all the pain and the chaos go away and exist only in your "private universe".
I believe Kyms' story about the song, but this is what it will always be about to me. It's a great example of how the true meaning of a song is ultimately in the mind of the listener.