I don't know why, but first time I heard this I immediately thought of gay rights. :/ Especially the part about God's apparent apathy at violence done in his name. The reason probably was that I know a few people who went through this from down south. They went through really horrible shit growing up. Beaten up by their own dads for not living up to expectations, thrown out of the house with only the shirt on their backs, the things they did just to survive as kids on their own in the streets. Some of them grow up as irrepairably damaged angry human beings, some die and no one cares about it. But I know a few who are, to put it in the corniest way possible LOL, simply some of the most beautiful human beings alive. Holding no resentment for the suffering they've been through and ironically being closer actually to what Jesus taught than their supposedly 'religious' parents. Y'know... people who really are at peace with the world. Few people can claim to have gone through the kind of suffering that some people have and still end up forgiving. This especially resonates with me:
"You could've chose hate but you chose love"
Anyway, the song could also refer to someone who went through an abusive childhood. I'd really like to know what this song is about though. Was it about a specific person? A specific incident? And Alice Peacock, apparently, hasn't posted anywhere else about it.
I don't know why, but first time I heard this I immediately thought of gay rights. :/ Especially the part about God's apparent apathy at violence done in his name. The reason probably was that I know a few people who went through this from down south. They went through really horrible shit growing up. Beaten up by their own dads for not living up to expectations, thrown out of the house with only the shirt on their backs, the things they did just to survive as kids on their own in the streets. Some of them grow up as irrepairably damaged angry human beings, some die and no one cares about it. But I know a few who are, to put it in the corniest way possible LOL, simply some of the most beautiful human beings alive. Holding no resentment for the suffering they've been through and ironically being closer actually to what Jesus taught than their supposedly 'religious' parents. Y'know... people who really are at peace with the world. Few people can claim to have gone through the kind of suffering that some people have and still end up forgiving. This especially resonates with me:
"You could've chose hate but you chose love"
Anyway, the song could also refer to someone who went through an abusive childhood. I'd really like to know what this song is about though. Was it about a specific person? A specific incident? And Alice Peacock, apparently, hasn't posted anywhere else about it.