He lives his life with a good sense of morality and principle, and he knows this. She doesn't so much but he loves her and wants to help her. He tries to heavy-hand her to live in a better way in forgoing her inferior characteristics in order to live a better life. But this only serves to push her away from him.
He begins to see that he can't make someone do anything - even if they know that they're not living in the right way. He sees that the control he thought he had to change the situation was only an illusion - he has no direct control over how she chooses to live her life.
As her protector the best way to teach her is to show her rather than being obvious about it. And so he allows her to go free - he sets her free. But she doesn't really want to be free, she has, like everybody does, a need to make these decisions herself - he stops berating her and just by being his own good self, she begins to take on those same characteristics through him.
The song is about positioning oneself to distribute the gained knowledge we have earned through maturity into our subordinates solely based on our own behavior and actions, rather than preaching about what is right or wrong. It's about being both a mentor and a student at the same time.
Or a father figure; not equal; subordinate and is why he repeats, "it's all on my own" because principally, he cannot keep what he sees as morally lower than himself.
Or a father figure; not equal; subordinate and is why he repeats, "it's all on my own" because principally, he cannot keep what he sees as morally lower than himself.
He lives his life with a good sense of morality and principle, and he knows this. She doesn't so much but he loves her and wants to help her. He tries to heavy-hand her to live in a better way in forgoing her inferior characteristics in order to live a better life. But this only serves to push her away from him.
He begins to see that he can't make someone do anything - even if they know that they're not living in the right way. He sees that the control he thought he had to change the situation was only an illusion - he has no direct control over how she chooses to live her life.
As her protector the best way to teach her is to show her rather than being obvious about it. And so he allows her to go free - he sets her free. But she doesn't really want to be free, she has, like everybody does, a need to make these decisions herself - he stops berating her and just by being his own good self, she begins to take on those same characteristics through him.
The song is about positioning oneself to distribute the gained knowledge we have earned through maturity into our subordinates solely based on our own behavior and actions, rather than preaching about what is right or wrong. It's about being both a mentor and a student at the same time.
Or a father figure; not equal; subordinate and is why he repeats, "it's all on my own" because principally, he cannot keep what he sees as morally lower than himself.
Or a father figure; not equal; subordinate and is why he repeats, "it's all on my own" because principally, he cannot keep what he sees as morally lower than himself.