Although the song was written for Wuthering Heights(a phenomenal book!) it can relate to many subjects other then love. This is my interpretation of this song.
"Give me hope in silence
It's easier, it's kinder
Tell me not of heartbreak
It plagues my soul, it plagues my soul"
I think this is saying don't tell me of the troubles in our world. It's better to have silence then to hear the pain and despair of desperate peoples. And on a more personal note...When you constantly hear adults fighting you stop hoping for a happy home-life. You don't even let your self wish that they would love one another. You hope only for silence. That the screaming would stop.
"And bury me beside you
I have no hope in solitude"
When I see your pain and my lack of ability to relieve it it crushes me. When I see the deaths of millions I loose my desire to live with the pain in the world. I cannot survive when everyone around me is succumbing to the pain.
"And the world will follow
To the earth down below"
Ultimately we will all end our days in the earth, down below.
"But I came and I was nothing
Time will give us nothing"
Things are not getting better. We recuperate from one painful time in our lives just to find another trial awaiting us. On both a personal and global level.
"So why did you choose to lean on
A man you knew was falling? "
But yet..even amidst the pain and suffering we find the strength to trust. To trust that this time it will be different. That the one in whom we place our hope will not let us down although deep down inside we know that they will eventually, like everyone else, fail us. And that is what makes us human. The ability to trust, to have that trust broken, and then trust again.
Although the song was written for Wuthering Heights(a phenomenal book!) it can relate to many subjects other then love. This is my interpretation of this song.
"Give me hope in silence It's easier, it's kinder Tell me not of heartbreak It plagues my soul, it plagues my soul" I think this is saying don't tell me of the troubles in our world. It's better to have silence then to hear the pain and despair of desperate peoples. And on a more personal note...When you constantly hear adults fighting you stop hoping for a happy home-life. You don't even let your self wish that they would love one another. You hope only for silence. That the screaming would stop.
"And bury me beside you I have no hope in solitude" When I see your pain and my lack of ability to relieve it it crushes me. When I see the deaths of millions I loose my desire to live with the pain in the world. I cannot survive when everyone around me is succumbing to the pain.
"And the world will follow To the earth down below" Ultimately we will all end our days in the earth, down below.
"But I came and I was nothing Time will give us nothing" Things are not getting better. We recuperate from one painful time in our lives just to find another trial awaiting us. On both a personal and global level.
"So why did you choose to lean on A man you knew was falling? " But yet..even amidst the pain and suffering we find the strength to trust. To trust that this time it will be different. That the one in whom we place our hope will not let us down although deep down inside we know that they will eventually, like everyone else, fail us. And that is what makes us human. The ability to trust, to have that trust broken, and then trust again.