Every time I hear this song, it brings me to tears. The music and the lyrics are so beautiful.
It's about the circular nature of things. How creation and destruction are one and the same. It's about life and our struggle to find something to live for; some kind of meaning, but it eludes us, because we are but limited beings trying to reach beyond where our means can take us. Life seems so insignificant in the vastness of the universe, and this is emphasized by how fleeting it is: " although death is true for me/ There is nothing after the ending." When you think about things like that and things like the pain of life and the endless wars, it's easy to become disillusioned with it all.
However, there's a sort of comfort to be had from the acknowledgement of our insignificance in the universe. When he says that "there is nothing after the ending," this doesn't necessarily have to be taken as a pessimistic view, because when taken with everything else, it becomes clear that there IS no ending. We are all part of the infinity of life. Everything that ever was cannot be erased. Everything is eternal.
Every time I hear this song, it brings me to tears. The music and the lyrics are so beautiful.
It's about the circular nature of things. How creation and destruction are one and the same. It's about life and our struggle to find something to live for; some kind of meaning, but it eludes us, because we are but limited beings trying to reach beyond where our means can take us. Life seems so insignificant in the vastness of the universe, and this is emphasized by how fleeting it is: " although death is true for me/ There is nothing after the ending." When you think about things like that and things like the pain of life and the endless wars, it's easy to become disillusioned with it all.
However, there's a sort of comfort to be had from the acknowledgement of our insignificance in the universe. When he says that "there is nothing after the ending," this doesn't necessarily have to be taken as a pessimistic view, because when taken with everything else, it becomes clear that there IS no ending. We are all part of the infinity of life. Everything that ever was cannot be erased. Everything is eternal.