This is my personal interpretation in the context of a situation I am going through right now. I do not believe this is necessarily (or at all) the musician's meaning behind it... this is how these couple of lyrics touched me today in the moment i am living right now...
"I surrender who I've been for who you are"
I feel like, in my current situation, I was so set in my ways and wanting him to change that I didn't realize that I needed to make some changes with regards to acceptance and understanding that him and I are not exactly alike and I can not make him be someone he is not and that I need to surrender who I am (dominating the situation and wanting what I want when I want it) for who he is (someone who is slow to change, shy, not as touchy feely as I'd prefer, etc. etc.) I must accept his way of being and to do so I must surrender my "need" for him to be something his is not...
"Nothing makes me stronger than your fragile heart"
The same situation I spoke of above... I have had to be so strong through all of this. Surrendering my needs and wants and desires in order to keep around the man that I love so much... this man who has a fragile heart, that I didn't even realize he did until recently. But he is fragile. I am not so much. I am growing stronger through this and I'm realizing that I CAN sacrifice some of my desires and needs for him... for my love. I can do it and I will be stronger for it and who knows? Maybe down the road he will grow stronger and he may someday be able to fulfill some of these needs and desires I have that he is simply unable to do at this time... Maybe later he will be able to stand in the other shoes and make sacrifices for who I am... and we will meet in this beautiful middle.
This is my personal interpretation in the context of a situation I am going through right now. I do not believe this is necessarily (or at all) the musician's meaning behind it... this is how these couple of lyrics touched me today in the moment i am living right now...
"I surrender who I've been for who you are"
I feel like, in my current situation, I was so set in my ways and wanting him to change that I didn't realize that I needed to make some changes with regards to acceptance and understanding that him and I are not exactly alike and I can not make him be someone he is not and that I need to surrender who I am (dominating the situation and wanting what I want when I want it) for who he is (someone who is slow to change, shy, not as touchy feely as I'd prefer, etc. etc.) I must accept his way of being and to do so I must surrender my "need" for him to be something his is not...
"Nothing makes me stronger than your fragile heart" The same situation I spoke of above... I have had to be so strong through all of this. Surrendering my needs and wants and desires in order to keep around the man that I love so much... this man who has a fragile heart, that I didn't even realize he did until recently. But he is fragile. I am not so much. I am growing stronger through this and I'm realizing that I CAN sacrifice some of my desires and needs for him... for my love. I can do it and I will be stronger for it and who knows? Maybe down the road he will grow stronger and he may someday be able to fulfill some of these needs and desires I have that he is simply unable to do at this time... Maybe later he will be able to stand in the other shoes and make sacrifices for who I am... and we will meet in this beautiful middle.