This is my favorite song on Out of Time. It's beautiful and achingly sad.
I think it's about a fight between lovers that forces the narrator out of his home with his girlfriend- maybe a divorce, I don't know- and now he regrets it. "The storm it came up strong, and shook the trees... I had too much to drink, I didn't think of you." Even though he's lonely and pining for her, he still has "sworn to go it along, and hold it along, haul it along and hold it"- meaning, I think, to stay out there, away from her, living alone. Maybe he doesn't want to apologize, maybe he thinks living apart would just make things easier for her.
The only thing I don't understand are the few lyrics that convey hope... "turn to a miracle, blew away our fear..." Maybe the narrator has some sliver of hope that they will reach a compromise and he will get to come home.
"My hand is tired, my heart aches... I'm half a world away." I always equate hands with working. Sounds like the narrator has been working too hard, probably because his lover is no longer able to support him (although if I was living with someone who didn't work, I wouldn't enjoy that very much..." Half a world away. They are far apart, emotionally and physically.
Y'know what the saddest line in this song is? "This lonely world is wasted, pathetic eyes, high alive." To me it conveys just not caring about life, about anoything, not even being able to hate it anymore, just feeling numb, resigned.
@EnduringChill This song is very existential full of
despair and hopelessness It was never my favorite
from the band, so depressing I'm glad I know Christ
or else I would probably write something similar
@EnduringChill This song is very existential full of
despair and hopelessness It was never my favorite
from the band, so depressing I'm glad I know Christ
or else I would probably write something similar
This is my favorite song on Out of Time. It's beautiful and achingly sad.
I think it's about a fight between lovers that forces the narrator out of his home with his girlfriend- maybe a divorce, I don't know- and now he regrets it. "The storm it came up strong, and shook the trees... I had too much to drink, I didn't think of you." Even though he's lonely and pining for her, he still has "sworn to go it along, and hold it along, haul it along and hold it"- meaning, I think, to stay out there, away from her, living alone. Maybe he doesn't want to apologize, maybe he thinks living apart would just make things easier for her.
The only thing I don't understand are the few lyrics that convey hope... "turn to a miracle, blew away our fear..." Maybe the narrator has some sliver of hope that they will reach a compromise and he will get to come home.
"My hand is tired, my heart aches... I'm half a world away." I always equate hands with working. Sounds like the narrator has been working too hard, probably because his lover is no longer able to support him (although if I was living with someone who didn't work, I wouldn't enjoy that very much..." Half a world away. They are far apart, emotionally and physically.
Y'know what the saddest line in this song is? "This lonely world is wasted, pathetic eyes, high alive." To me it conveys just not caring about life, about anoything, not even being able to hate it anymore, just feeling numb, resigned.
@EnduringChill This song is very existential full of despair and hopelessness It was never my favorite from the band, so depressing I'm glad I know Christ or else I would probably write something similar
@EnduringChill This song is very existential full of despair and hopelessness It was never my favorite from the band, so depressing I'm glad I know Christ or else I would probably write something similar