(I realize I'm late on all these comments for this song, but I just joined this site today. a little background to my interpretation.. my wife and I had a miscarraige about two months before I first heard this song.) I found the musical composition to shift from a somewhat muted somber to an incredibly uplifting hope.. and the words I found to be more instrumental than anything. I see after reading the lyrics more thoroughly I fully understand this song is about death (which may have been why I was originally drawn to it), and Ritchie may be very well singing about putting a loved one under the Earth - but in my opinion, he's not necessarily mourning the death of the subject of the song, but more so of the the "person" he misses. As I said my wife miscarried around 11 weeks just before we were to see the sex, and it was hell. Honestly, it still is. We've gotten a lot better and we are trying again, but over the last several months she had been very aloof and it got to a point like nothing was wrong.. makeup. hair back. pulled tight.. while I knew on the inside she was falling apart. - I guess to summarize, my perspective of the song is this: I'm a guy, and while I was excited and happy to be a dad, when we lost the child, I moved on more quickly than she did. Maybe because I can't relate to being a mom because I'm a man, or maybe because I forced myself to compartmentalize. Either way I knew I had the upper hand emotionally, and owed her every bit of confidence I could reinstill her with. I realized that my strength had to bring her back from a place of darkness where she kept herself cold, closed, shutoff. And not that she was gone, but that she just needed to take my hand, and I'd take her hand, and I would pull her out... into the sun again.
(I realize I'm late on all these comments for this song, but I just joined this site today. a little background to my interpretation.. my wife and I had a miscarraige about two months before I first heard this song.) I found the musical composition to shift from a somewhat muted somber to an incredibly uplifting hope.. and the words I found to be more instrumental than anything. I see after reading the lyrics more thoroughly I fully understand this song is about death (which may have been why I was originally drawn to it), and Ritchie may be very well singing about putting a loved one under the Earth - but in my opinion, he's not necessarily mourning the death of the subject of the song, but more so of the the "person" he misses. As I said my wife miscarried around 11 weeks just before we were to see the sex, and it was hell. Honestly, it still is. We've gotten a lot better and we are trying again, but over the last several months she had been very aloof and it got to a point like nothing was wrong.. makeup. hair back. pulled tight.. while I knew on the inside she was falling apart. - I guess to summarize, my perspective of the song is this: I'm a guy, and while I was excited and happy to be a dad, when we lost the child, I moved on more quickly than she did. Maybe because I can't relate to being a mom because I'm a man, or maybe because I forced myself to compartmentalize. Either way I knew I had the upper hand emotionally, and owed her every bit of confidence I could reinstill her with. I realized that my strength had to bring her back from a place of darkness where she kept herself cold, closed, shutoff. And not that she was gone, but that she just needed to take my hand, and I'd take her hand, and I would pull her out... into the sun again.