I think this song has absolutely NOTHING to do with sex, doing drugs or killing a child, period. I think it has EVERYTHING to do with the initial shock of losing someone, the time in between understanding the loss and letting go of those feelings and moving on. The rage you feel inside, when in losing someone you start to question your faith. You miss them, you don't understand why they've gone, you long to see them and wonder what heaven holds for them now they are gone.
I just lost my brother to a horrific car accident on July 17, 2008. He was riding his bike to work and in a millesecond his life was snuffed out, just like that, gone.
I have been searching for a way to contain my grief and sorrow. My grief in what's happened to him, my sorrow in the fact I will never see his beautiful face again. I too, have questioned my faith. What God would do this to a beautiful soul that loved this earth? What God of mine would take such humbled soul from this earth and leave such travisty behind? I have question where is my brother, where has he gone? Is he aware that sadness and grief is left behind in his absence? I'm angry and mad as hell at the person that hit my brother, I want to scream, I want to curse God and ask why, why, why?
I was searching for songs to add to my myspace account and love Sarah. I remembered this song and once I listened to it (again after all these years) the meaning, to me, was ever so clear.
She's mad that someone has died, she longs to see them, wonders what heaven holds for them, as well as her. She seeks comfort to undestand, she can't hold it in, yet she doesn't know how to explain her feelings. She's questioning her faith and just can't understand anything about the meaning this is supposed to bring her, she doubts her own existence and is sinking in the white wave in silence (because she can't explain just how she feels when everyone around her doesn't understand what she's going through) and she can't understand any of this.
She is, quite frankly, devasted about her loss, and in the end she has found some relief in knowing she will see that person again, one day. She sees them in this white wave (heaven) and they are silent (dead and can't talk to us after their dead) but in the white wave in the silence she sees they are breathing (alive in the afterlife).
In my deep deep pits of sorrow, that is what I have filitered out of this song. It has ease my pain on some level.
I think this song has absolutely NOTHING to do with sex, doing drugs or killing a child, period. I think it has EVERYTHING to do with the initial shock of losing someone, the time in between understanding the loss and letting go of those feelings and moving on. The rage you feel inside, when in losing someone you start to question your faith. You miss them, you don't understand why they've gone, you long to see them and wonder what heaven holds for them now they are gone.
I just lost my brother to a horrific car accident on July 17, 2008. He was riding his bike to work and in a millesecond his life was snuffed out, just like that, gone.
I have been searching for a way to contain my grief and sorrow. My grief in what's happened to him, my sorrow in the fact I will never see his beautiful face again. I too, have questioned my faith. What God would do this to a beautiful soul that loved this earth? What God of mine would take such humbled soul from this earth and leave such travisty behind? I have question where is my brother, where has he gone? Is he aware that sadness and grief is left behind in his absence? I'm angry and mad as hell at the person that hit my brother, I want to scream, I want to curse God and ask why, why, why?
I was searching for songs to add to my myspace account and love Sarah. I remembered this song and once I listened to it (again after all these years) the meaning, to me, was ever so clear.
She's mad that someone has died, she longs to see them, wonders what heaven holds for them, as well as her. She seeks comfort to undestand, she can't hold it in, yet she doesn't know how to explain her feelings. She's questioning her faith and just can't understand anything about the meaning this is supposed to bring her, she doubts her own existence and is sinking in the white wave in silence (because she can't explain just how she feels when everyone around her doesn't understand what she's going through) and she can't understand any of this.
She is, quite frankly, devasted about her loss, and in the end she has found some relief in knowing she will see that person again, one day. She sees them in this white wave (heaven) and they are silent (dead and can't talk to us after their dead) but in the white wave in the silence she sees they are breathing (alive in the afterlife).
In my deep deep pits of sorrow, that is what I have filitered out of this song. It has ease my pain on some level.