I don't know if my interpretation is connected in any way to the actual meaning, but this song stirs in me memories of an old friend with whom I attended high school. He was a senior and I was a sophomore. He was an international student from Europe. I was a pretty isolated and lonely teenager. We became good friends that year, did community service together, walked, talked, shared meals, and I was the last person to see him off at the airport at the end of the year when he went to return to his home country. Nearly 10 years later, I would travel to Europe for a short term job placement. I reached out to him to try to connect. We exchanged contact information. Three months after I landed and settled into life in Europe, I sent him a letter. What I got back in response was a letter from his brother informing me that my friend had taken his life around the time I had arrived.
This song, to me, is about my friend, who faced the world on his own, loving and then holding back, hurting and never really knowing whom to trust. There were people in his life to took away from him, I believe, who took advantage of him or took him for granted ... those birds of prey. When I sing this song along with Indigos, I sing to him, telling him to fly away and be free from this world of pain. I am glad that our paths crossed in this earthly life, that I was a stop along his way. Perhaps one day, we will meet again where we will enjoy the view together. But for now, because he is gone, I will never hear him utter my name, I am the words he'll never say. He did eventually hit the glass, when he took his life. He crashed. My deep sadness comes from the fact that I could not see him again to encourage him and be a good friend to him. I was too late. My saddest song was the one unsung and unheard by the one person in the world who needed to hear it the most.
I hope this was meaningful to someone out there. If you are hurting, you are not alone. I know there are lots of folks out there who bash people who say something about believing in God, but it is no reason to hold back my belief that God is real and is close to those who suffer. You are not alone. Blessings and peace. Thank you for reading.
I don't know if my interpretation is connected in any way to the actual meaning, but this song stirs in me memories of an old friend with whom I attended high school. He was a senior and I was a sophomore. He was an international student from Europe. I was a pretty isolated and lonely teenager. We became good friends that year, did community service together, walked, talked, shared meals, and I was the last person to see him off at the airport at the end of the year when he went to return to his home country. Nearly 10 years later, I would travel to Europe for a short term job placement. I reached out to him to try to connect. We exchanged contact information. Three months after I landed and settled into life in Europe, I sent him a letter. What I got back in response was a letter from his brother informing me that my friend had taken his life around the time I had arrived.
This song, to me, is about my friend, who faced the world on his own, loving and then holding back, hurting and never really knowing whom to trust. There were people in his life to took away from him, I believe, who took advantage of him or took him for granted ... those birds of prey. When I sing this song along with Indigos, I sing to him, telling him to fly away and be free from this world of pain. I am glad that our paths crossed in this earthly life, that I was a stop along his way. Perhaps one day, we will meet again where we will enjoy the view together. But for now, because he is gone, I will never hear him utter my name, I am the words he'll never say. He did eventually hit the glass, when he took his life. He crashed. My deep sadness comes from the fact that I could not see him again to encourage him and be a good friend to him. I was too late. My saddest song was the one unsung and unheard by the one person in the world who needed to hear it the most.
I hope this was meaningful to someone out there. If you are hurting, you are not alone. I know there are lots of folks out there who bash people who say something about believing in God, but it is no reason to hold back my belief that God is real and is close to those who suffer. You are not alone. Blessings and peace. Thank you for reading.