I believe this song is about Jimi Hendrix. His birth name is Johnny. Johnny was a "dark" child, he was promised to us all. The "dark" can either mean that he is black or it could be a metaphor for being different than others, and the "promised to us all" means that he created music that we all love, and that inspired many artists.
The second verse, "then someone opened doorways" is describing his death. "Johnny slipped away, running for the bright". And then the last verse, which is kinda self-explanatory. The only thing that I don't get is the name Sally. It's probably abbreviated from Sarah (Which means princess in Hebrew), but his girlfriend, the one who supposedly killed him, was named Monika.
Yeah, probably a bad theory, but I kinda get this from the song :\
I believe this song is about Jimi Hendrix. His birth name is Johnny. Johnny was a "dark" child, he was promised to us all. The "dark" can either mean that he is black or it could be a metaphor for being different than others, and the "promised to us all" means that he created music that we all love, and that inspired many artists. The second verse, "then someone opened doorways" is describing his death. "Johnny slipped away, running for the bright". And then the last verse, which is kinda self-explanatory. The only thing that I don't get is the name Sally. It's probably abbreviated from Sarah (Which means princess in Hebrew), but his girlfriend, the one who supposedly killed him, was named Monika. Yeah, probably a bad theory, but I kinda get this from the song :\