I've listened to this song over 100 times. The first ten seconds of the song you can hear a clanging sound of metal on metal. I spent 5 years in the United States Marine Corps and the first time I heard this song it immediately brought me back to the sound of the US flag clanging against the flagpole.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song. Perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song. Perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face, onto the one left grieving we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving...
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face, onto the one left grieving we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving is 'raised' or standing vertical/alive but only just. Conversely, the line could mean that one is fashioned out of what one creates for oneself. Perhaps it is a bit of both. Since the next stanza, the cutting stanza 'Still alive who you love' offers up elevated positive emotion: a loved one is lost but still alive in memory.
From the dust moves the light (see stanza one, line two) in processing the grief there is chance of rebirth... 'in a mother, out a moth.' The choice to use the word 'furling,' in the line 'furling forest for the soft,' seems to be used purposely to denote more flag imagery. 'Furling' meaning "to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff," seams to me like the griever is yet again struggling, and perhaps in disbelief. The next line, 'Gotta know been lead aloft,' could be used to describe coming to terms with a loved one now being 'aloft' or in other words,"in the rigging overhead." See all the flag imagery now?!
The second to last stanza, which reads "So I'm ridding all your stories
What I know, what it is, is pouring – wire it up!," is so powerful. Now that the one grieving has had time to process the loss of their loved one, they can now ride on memories, a pouring of memories and emotions. And 'wire it up,' seems to me like another use of flag imagery, like raise the flag to my amazing friend. I can grow for this experience, hence the closing line: 'Your'e breaking your ground,' be it Heath be the one in the ground, this loss will not take all of Heath's brilliance, creativity, and love because it is now stronger and more motivating than ever.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face, onto the one left grieving we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving...
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face, onto the one left grieving we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving is 'raised' or standing vertical/alive but only just. Conversely, the line could mean that one is fashioned out of what one creates for oneself. Perhaps it is a bit of both since the next stanza, the cutting stanza 'Still alive who you love' offers up elevated positive emotion: a loved one is lost but still alive in memory.
From the dust moves the light (see stanza one, line two) in processing the grief there is chance of rebirth... 'in a mother, out a moth.' The choice to use the word 'furling,' in the line 'furling forest for the soft,' seems to be used purposely to denote more flag imagery. 'Furling' meaning "to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff," seams to me like the griever is yet again struggling, and perhaps in disbelief. The next line, 'Gotta know been lead aloft,' could be used to describe coming to terms with a loved one now being 'aloft' or in other words,"in the rigging overhead." See all the flag imagery now?!
The second to last stanza, which reads "So I'm ridding all your stories
What I know, what it is, is pouring – wire it up!," is so powerful. Now that the one grieving has had time to process the loss of their loved one, they can now ride on memories, a pouring of memories and emotions. And 'wire it up,' seems to me like another use of flag imagery, like raise the flag to my amazing friend. I can grow for this experience, hence the closing line: 'Your'e breaking your ground,' be it Heath be the one in the ground, this loss will not take all of Heath's brilliance, creativity, and love because it is now stronger and more motivating than ever.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face,' onto the one left grieving we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving...
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face,' onto the one left grieving we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving is 'raised' or standing vertical/alive but only just. Conversely, the line could mean that one is fashioned out of what one creates for oneself. Perhaps it is a bit of both since the next stanza, the cutting stanza 'Still alive who you love' offers up elevated positive emotion: a loved one is lost but still alive in memory.
From the dust moves the light (see stanza one, line two) in processing the grief there is chance of rebirth... 'in a mother, out a moth.' The choice to use the word 'furling,' in the line 'furling forest for the soft,' seems to be used purposely to denote more flag imagery. 'Furling' meaning "to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff," seams to me like the griever is yet again struggling, and perhaps in disbelief. The next line, 'Gotta know been lead aloft,' could be used to describe coming to terms with a loved one now being 'aloft' or in other words,"in the rigging overhead." See all the flag imagery now?!
The second to last stanza, which reads "So I'm ridding all your stories
What I know, what it is, is pouring – wire it up!," is so powerful. Now that the one grieving has had time to process the loss of their loved one, they can now ride on memories, a pouring of memories and emotions. And 'wire it up,' seems to me like another use of flag imagery, like raise the flag to my amazing friend. I can grow for this experience, hence the closing line: 'Your'e breaking your ground,' be it Heath be the one in the ground, this loss will not take all of Heath's brilliance, creativity, and love because it is now stronger and more motivating than ever.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face,' onto the one left grieving, then we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one...
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face,' onto the one left grieving, then we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving is 'raised' or standing vertical/alive but only just. Conversely, the line could mean that one is fashioned out of what one creates for oneself. Perhaps it is a bit of both since the next stanza, the cutting stanza 'Still alive who you love' offers up elevated positive emotion: a loved one is lost but still alive in memory.
From the dust moves the light (see stanza one, line two) in processing the grief there is chance of rebirth... 'in a mother, out a moth.' The choice to use the word 'furling,' in the line 'furling forest for the soft,' seems to be used purposely to denote more flag imagery. 'Furling' meaning "to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff," seams to me like the griever is yet again struggling, and perhaps in disbelief. The next line, 'Gotta know been lead aloft,' could be used to describe coming to terms with a loved one now being 'aloft' or in other words,"in the rigging overhead." See all the flag imagery now?!
The second to last stanza, which reads "So I'm ridding all your stories
What I know, what it is, is pouring – wire it up!," is so powerful. Now that the one grieving has had time to process the loss of their loved one, they can now ride on memories, a pouring of memories and emotions. And 'wire it up,' seems to me like another use of flag imagery, like raise the flag to my amazing friend. I can grow for this experience, hence the closing line: 'Your'e breaking your ground,' be it Heath be the one in the ground, this loss will not take all of Heath's brilliance, creativity, and love because it is now stronger and more motivating than ever.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face,' onto the one left grieving, then we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one...
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face,' onto the one left grieving, then we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving is 'raised' or standing vertical/alive but only just. Conversely, the line could mean that one is fashioned out of what one creates for oneself. Perhaps it is a bit of both since the next stanza, the cutting stanza 'Still alive who you love' offers up elevated positive emotion: a loved one is lost but still alive in memory.
From the dust moves the light (see stanza one, line two) in processing the grief there is chance of rebirth... 'in a mother, out a moth.' The choice to use the word 'furling,' in the line 'furling forest for the soft,' seems to be used purposely to denote more flag imagery. 'Furling' meaning "to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff," seams to me like the griever is yet again struggling, and perhaps in disbelief. The next line, 'Gotta know been lead aloft,' could be used to describe coming to terms with a loved one now being 'aloft' or in other words,"in the rigging overhead." See all the flag imagery now?!
The second to last stanza, which reads "So I'm ridding all your stories
What I know, what it is, is pouring – wire it up!," is so powerful. Now that the one grieving has had time to process the loss of their loved one, they can now ride on memories, a pouring of memories and emotions. And 'wire it up,' seems to me like another use of flag imagery, like raise the flag to my amazing friend. I can grow for this experience, hence the closing line: 'Your'e breaking your ground,' be it Heath be the one in the ground, this loss will not take all of Heath's brilliance, creativity, and love because it is now stronger and more motivating than ever.
I've listened to this song over 100 times. The first ten seconds of the song you can hear a clanging sound of metal on metal. I spent 5 years in the United States Marine Corps and the first time I heard this song it immediately brought me back to the sound of the US flag clanging against the flagpole.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song. Perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song. Perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face, onto the one left grieving we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving...
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face, onto the one left grieving we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving is 'raised' or standing vertical/alive but only just. Conversely, the line could mean that one is fashioned out of what one creates for oneself. Perhaps it is a bit of both. Since the next stanza, the cutting stanza 'Still alive who you love' offers up elevated positive emotion: a loved one is lost but still alive in memory.
From the dust moves the light (see stanza one, line two) in processing the grief there is chance of rebirth... 'in a mother, out a moth.' The choice to use the word 'furling,' in the line 'furling forest for the soft,' seems to be used purposely to denote more flag imagery. 'Furling' meaning "to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff," seams to me like the griever is yet again struggling, and perhaps in disbelief. The next line, 'Gotta know been lead aloft,' could be used to describe coming to terms with a loved one now being 'aloft' or in other words,"in the rigging overhead." See all the flag imagery now?!
The second to last stanza, which reads "So I'm ridding all your stories What I know, what it is, is pouring – wire it up!," is so powerful. Now that the one grieving has had time to process the loss of their loved one, they can now ride on memories, a pouring of memories and emotions. And 'wire it up,' seems to me like another use of flag imagery, like raise the flag to my amazing friend. I can grow for this experience, hence the closing line: 'Your'e breaking your ground,' be it Heath be the one in the ground, this loss will not take all of Heath's brilliance, creativity, and love because it is now stronger and more motivating than ever.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face, onto the one left grieving we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving...
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face, onto the one left grieving we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving is 'raised' or standing vertical/alive but only just. Conversely, the line could mean that one is fashioned out of what one creates for oneself. Perhaps it is a bit of both since the next stanza, the cutting stanza 'Still alive who you love' offers up elevated positive emotion: a loved one is lost but still alive in memory.
From the dust moves the light (see stanza one, line two) in processing the grief there is chance of rebirth... 'in a mother, out a moth.' The choice to use the word 'furling,' in the line 'furling forest for the soft,' seems to be used purposely to denote more flag imagery. 'Furling' meaning "to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff," seams to me like the griever is yet again struggling, and perhaps in disbelief. The next line, 'Gotta know been lead aloft,' could be used to describe coming to terms with a loved one now being 'aloft' or in other words,"in the rigging overhead." See all the flag imagery now?!
The second to last stanza, which reads "So I'm ridding all your stories What I know, what it is, is pouring – wire it up!," is so powerful. Now that the one grieving has had time to process the loss of their loved one, they can now ride on memories, a pouring of memories and emotions. And 'wire it up,' seems to me like another use of flag imagery, like raise the flag to my amazing friend. I can grow for this experience, hence the closing line: 'Your'e breaking your ground,' be it Heath be the one in the ground, this loss will not take all of Heath's brilliance, creativity, and love because it is now stronger and more motivating than ever.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face,' onto the one left grieving we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving...
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face,' onto the one left grieving we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving is 'raised' or standing vertical/alive but only just. Conversely, the line could mean that one is fashioned out of what one creates for oneself. Perhaps it is a bit of both since the next stanza, the cutting stanza 'Still alive who you love' offers up elevated positive emotion: a loved one is lost but still alive in memory.
From the dust moves the light (see stanza one, line two) in processing the grief there is chance of rebirth... 'in a mother, out a moth.' The choice to use the word 'furling,' in the line 'furling forest for the soft,' seems to be used purposely to denote more flag imagery. 'Furling' meaning "to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff," seams to me like the griever is yet again struggling, and perhaps in disbelief. The next line, 'Gotta know been lead aloft,' could be used to describe coming to terms with a loved one now being 'aloft' or in other words,"in the rigging overhead." See all the flag imagery now?!
The second to last stanza, which reads "So I'm ridding all your stories What I know, what it is, is pouring – wire it up!," is so powerful. Now that the one grieving has had time to process the loss of their loved one, they can now ride on memories, a pouring of memories and emotions. And 'wire it up,' seems to me like another use of flag imagery, like raise the flag to my amazing friend. I can grow for this experience, hence the closing line: 'Your'e breaking your ground,' be it Heath be the one in the ground, this loss will not take all of Heath's brilliance, creativity, and love because it is now stronger and more motivating than ever.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face,' onto the one left grieving, then we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one...
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face,' onto the one left grieving, then we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving is 'raised' or standing vertical/alive but only just. Conversely, the line could mean that one is fashioned out of what one creates for oneself. Perhaps it is a bit of both since the next stanza, the cutting stanza 'Still alive who you love' offers up elevated positive emotion: a loved one is lost but still alive in memory.
From the dust moves the light (see stanza one, line two) in processing the grief there is chance of rebirth... 'in a mother, out a moth.' The choice to use the word 'furling,' in the line 'furling forest for the soft,' seems to be used purposely to denote more flag imagery. 'Furling' meaning "to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff," seams to me like the griever is yet again struggling, and perhaps in disbelief. The next line, 'Gotta know been lead aloft,' could be used to describe coming to terms with a loved one now being 'aloft' or in other words,"in the rigging overhead." See all the flag imagery now?!
The second to last stanza, which reads "So I'm ridding all your stories What I know, what it is, is pouring – wire it up!," is so powerful. Now that the one grieving has had time to process the loss of their loved one, they can now ride on memories, a pouring of memories and emotions. And 'wire it up,' seems to me like another use of flag imagery, like raise the flag to my amazing friend. I can grow for this experience, hence the closing line: 'Your'e breaking your ground,' be it Heath be the one in the ground, this loss will not take all of Heath's brilliance, creativity, and love because it is now stronger and more motivating than ever.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
@killoranusmc The flag observation is very poignant. Taking into account the bit about Heath Ledger's death having some influence on the song, perhaps the moment, the 'not a place' from the fifth line of stanza one, that this song refers is the moment where loved ones are looking for closure or peace. Maybe at a flag raising in memoriam of the since deceased.
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face,' onto the one left grieving, then we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one...
If we project lines like 'tearing up acrost your face,' onto the one left grieving, then we can take it to mean that the griever is barely making it: 'raised of make' could mean that the one grieving is 'raised' or standing vertical/alive but only just. Conversely, the line could mean that one is fashioned out of what one creates for oneself. Perhaps it is a bit of both since the next stanza, the cutting stanza 'Still alive who you love' offers up elevated positive emotion: a loved one is lost but still alive in memory.
From the dust moves the light (see stanza one, line two) in processing the grief there is chance of rebirth... 'in a mother, out a moth.' The choice to use the word 'furling,' in the line 'furling forest for the soft,' seems to be used purposely to denote more flag imagery. 'Furling' meaning "to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff," seams to me like the griever is yet again struggling, and perhaps in disbelief. The next line, 'Gotta know been lead aloft,' could be used to describe coming to terms with a loved one now being 'aloft' or in other words,"in the rigging overhead." See all the flag imagery now?!
The second to last stanza, which reads "So I'm ridding all your stories What I know, what it is, is pouring – wire it up!," is so powerful. Now that the one grieving has had time to process the loss of their loved one, they can now ride on memories, a pouring of memories and emotions. And 'wire it up,' seems to me like another use of flag imagery, like raise the flag to my amazing friend. I can grow for this experience, hence the closing line: 'Your'e breaking your ground,' be it Heath be the one in the ground, this loss will not take all of Heath's brilliance, creativity, and love because it is now stronger and more motivating than ever.