Beautiful song to start off a beautiful album! I remember listening to a radio interview where Justin explained that he was with a friend of Heath Ledger's when Heath died. It was a really hard thing for his friend, and Justin spent time with him when he was grieving, and he wrote this song during that time. So "still alive who you love" I think is just saying that if you love someone, they're still alive with you even after they die. He also said in the interview that Perth was like birth for him, like a messy beginning. He just got out of the US and to Australia, so it was like a new start for him away from everything. All together, to me the song feels like coming out of chaos to something new, something you need to be better, like "you're breaking your ground" on a new life.
Beautiful song to start off a beautiful album! I remember listening to a radio interview where Justin explained that he was with a friend of Heath Ledger's when Heath died. It was a really hard thing for his friend, and Justin spent time with him when he was grieving, and he wrote this song during that time. So "still alive who you love" I think is just saying that if you love someone, they're still alive with you even after they die. He also said in the interview that Perth was like birth for him, like a messy beginning. He just got out of the US and to Australia, so it was like a new start for him away from everything. All together, to me the song feels like coming out of chaos to something new, something you need to be better, like "you're breaking your ground" on a new life.