I'm fairly sure this song is about fixing/making yourself a better person when you have been hurt or shattered, and making something good out of nothing or the broken things that you once had. Ill use the lyrics to support my reasoning.....
Was losing all my friends.
Was losing them to drinking and to driving.
Was losing all my friends, but I got them back.
(I had bad friends, but I managed to reach out and get new ones to better myself)
I am on the mend.
At least now I can say that I am trying.
And I hope you will forget things I still lack.
(there are still flaws in me but im fixing myself)
Is it in you now,
To barely hear the truth that you have spoken?
Twisted up by knaves,
To make a trap for fools
(from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If", which i think is about making yourself a better person)
Is it in you now,
To watch the things you gave your life to broken?
And stoop and build them up with warn out tools
(Addressing the listeners: Do you have the ability to have all that you care about shatter, and still pick things back up and make new better things out of the mess the situation)
Nothing gets so bad,
A whisper from your father couldn't fix it.
He whisper's like a bridge, it's a river span.
(nothing is unfixable, it may be long off "a rivers distance" but its still possible)
Take all that you have,
And turn it into something you would miss if
Somebody threw that brick, shattered all your plans.
(Take all the bad things and make them good/better again. Make them into something that you love and would miss)
Time to get the seeds into the cold ground.
It takes a while to grow anything,
Before it's coming to the end, yeah.
(Its time to start trying to make new better things, in the "cold ground." aka out of the terrible situation. It might take awhile but start before its too late)
Before you put my body in the cold ground,
Take some time to warm it with your hand,
Before it's coming to an end, yeah.
(Before you give up and it becomes too late try to make something better, or warmer)
It's coming to an end, yeah.
(Hurry, dont let it be too late to start)
Do you miss the blend, of colors she left in your black and white field?
Do you feel condemned just being there?
(this is talking about specific common bad situations in which you feel that things fell apart. If a partner left you: do you miss the warm "colors" that the partner gave you, when before you met them you felt dark and gray?
and the next is self explanatory, do you feel condemned?).
I am not your friend.
I am just a man who knows how to feel.
I am not your friend.
I'm not your lover.
I'm not your family.
(this is referring to the breakup mentioned earlier. It is the first step that you need to take to move on and start to make something better out of this bad situation. Meaning cut yourself off, say how you don't need them and you are a good person)
I'm fairly sure this song is about fixing/making yourself a better person when you have been hurt or shattered, and making something good out of nothing or the broken things that you once had. Ill use the lyrics to support my reasoning.....
Was losing all my friends. Was losing them to drinking and to driving. Was losing all my friends, but I got them back. (I had bad friends, but I managed to reach out and get new ones to better myself)
I am on the mend. At least now I can say that I am trying. And I hope you will forget things I still lack. (there are still flaws in me but im fixing myself)
Is it in you now, To barely hear the truth that you have spoken? Twisted up by knaves, To make a trap for fools (from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If", which i think is about making yourself a better person)
Is it in you now, To watch the things you gave your life to broken? And stoop and build them up with warn out tools (Addressing the listeners: Do you have the ability to have all that you care about shatter, and still pick things back up and make new better things out of the mess the situation)
Nothing gets so bad, A whisper from your father couldn't fix it. He whisper's like a bridge, it's a river span. (nothing is unfixable, it may be long off "a rivers distance" but its still possible)
Take all that you have, And turn it into something you would miss if Somebody threw that brick, shattered all your plans. (Take all the bad things and make them good/better again. Make them into something that you love and would miss)
Time to get the seeds into the cold ground. It takes a while to grow anything, Before it's coming to the end, yeah. (Its time to start trying to make new better things, in the "cold ground." aka out of the terrible situation. It might take awhile but start before its too late)
Before you put my body in the cold ground, Take some time to warm it with your hand, Before it's coming to an end, yeah. (Before you give up and it becomes too late try to make something better, or warmer)
It's coming to an end, yeah. (Hurry, dont let it be too late to start)
Do you miss the blend, of colors she left in your black and white field? Do you feel condemned just being there? (this is talking about specific common bad situations in which you feel that things fell apart. If a partner left you: do you miss the warm "colors" that the partner gave you, when before you met them you felt dark and gray? and the next is self explanatory, do you feel condemned?).
I am not your friend. I am just a man who knows how to feel. I am not your friend. I'm not your lover. I'm not your family. (this is referring to the breakup mentioned earlier. It is the first step that you need to take to move on and start to make something better out of this bad situation. Meaning cut yourself off, say how you don't need them and you are a good person)