The blog Hardcore for Nerds says this about Forty Three Seconds: "I’ve never seen anyone else write this, but I’m assuming the meaning of the song is a statistic of youth deaths or something along those lines." I buy that explanation. Every 43 seconds, a kid is killed by ____.
My guess would be "suicide". It's a fruitful subject for songwriting. Also, if you Google 'suicide every seconds', you'll get a bunch of results saying people kill themselves every 30 or 40 seconds. So the exact number really could have been 43 at some point.
Each suicide seems irrational to the friends and family of the dead. It "doesn't even make sense."
But these deaths, individually unexplainable, occur on a huge scale. They are widely studied and commented on as a sociological phenomenon. Every 43 seconds, another equally inexplicable tragedy happens. The statistic is "just the point."
The blog Hardcore for Nerds says this about Forty Three Seconds: "I’ve never seen anyone else write this, but I’m assuming the meaning of the song is a statistic of youth deaths or something along those lines." I buy that explanation. Every 43 seconds, a kid is killed by ____.
My guess would be "suicide". It's a fruitful subject for songwriting. Also, if you Google 'suicide every seconds', you'll get a bunch of results saying people kill themselves every 30 or 40 seconds. So the exact number really could have been 43 at some point.
Each suicide seems irrational to the friends and family of the dead. It "doesn't even make sense."
But these deaths, individually unexplainable, occur on a huge scale. They are widely studied and commented on as a sociological phenomenon. Every 43 seconds, another equally inexplicable tragedy happens. The statistic is "just the point."