Much of this song is about feeling that each individual has no control, so what does it matter if an individual tries to do anything to help another. Jack feels that comfort is difficult to find in thinking about the world because of everything going on, between his obvious global warming reference, the difficulty of hope in the face of hardships (the weight of it all could blow away with the breeze), and each catastrophe that appears every day, it appears that singing from the heart does not make sense because too many people don't act from their hearts. The preconceived comment really interests me because to take the preconceived out from somebody's feet is to make them question the world, why people do as they do, whether their opinion is truly better than another person's, and what to believe. He connects believing to hope later when he states that "there's still hope between the dreams/ the weight of it all could blow away with the breeze/ if you're waiting on the wind" because waiting for the wind to ruin your hopes does not make sense until he says that we reach for love, which is the cure to dashed hopes and destroyed beliefs. In this song Jack believes that control in this world is impossible for the individual to maintain, but if everybody's preconceived notions about right and wrong, and the power of the individual changes, then some true changes may be made, but if these notions are kept, then the only thing left to reach to is love while the world collapses under the stresses and catastrophes presented by the environment and violence and the degradation of entire civilizations in other nations.
Much of this song is about feeling that each individual has no control, so what does it matter if an individual tries to do anything to help another. Jack feels that comfort is difficult to find in thinking about the world because of everything going on, between his obvious global warming reference, the difficulty of hope in the face of hardships (the weight of it all could blow away with the breeze), and each catastrophe that appears every day, it appears that singing from the heart does not make sense because too many people don't act from their hearts. The preconceived comment really interests me because to take the preconceived out from somebody's feet is to make them question the world, why people do as they do, whether their opinion is truly better than another person's, and what to believe. He connects believing to hope later when he states that "there's still hope between the dreams/ the weight of it all could blow away with the breeze/ if you're waiting on the wind" because waiting for the wind to ruin your hopes does not make sense until he says that we reach for love, which is the cure to dashed hopes and destroyed beliefs. In this song Jack believes that control in this world is impossible for the individual to maintain, but if everybody's preconceived notions about right and wrong, and the power of the individual changes, then some true changes may be made, but if these notions are kept, then the only thing left to reach to is love while the world collapses under the stresses and catastrophes presented by the environment and violence and the degradation of entire civilizations in other nations.