This song begins with the desire to return before 'the war', before the end, and before the need of prayers, before there was an obvious distinction between good and evil and the need for prayers. I believe that this song is about something terrible happing in one’s life-whether it being a war or the loss of a loved one- and that person is desperate to return to times before there was the need to ask the terrible, and often times unanswerable, question: WHY? And so the singer sings of his desire to return “to the garden without whys.” It’s a terribly haunting and bittersweet song, one that bespeaks of loss and melancholy.
This song begins with the desire to return before 'the war', before the end, and before the need of prayers, before there was an obvious distinction between good and evil and the need for prayers. I believe that this song is about something terrible happing in one’s life-whether it being a war or the loss of a loved one- and that person is desperate to return to times before there was the need to ask the terrible, and often times unanswerable, question: WHY? And so the singer sings of his desire to return “to the garden without whys.” It’s a terribly haunting and bittersweet song, one that bespeaks of loss and melancholy.