I adore this song too, not just for the orchestral arrangement and the singing, but also for the ambiguity in the lyrics. It's obviously about a broken-hearted person who has lost the love of his life There is some cautious optimism that things might get better, 'I'm going to mend this heart inside you've broken, it's just a matter of time', and then at the end is that ethereal and curiously jaunty 'Safety in Numbers' chant (lyrics below), which seems to be about committing suicide. It's almost as if the person has suddenly thought 'f**k it!' and decided not to go through the long painful task of pulling himself up by the bootstraps and taken the easy way out.
Show me the way
They say safety in numbers
I lift up my eyes to the sky
And imagine a crowd
Of hearts that surround me
And give the me courage to die
Were you to weep
And lie at my feet
Then you'd wash all my troubles away
And imagine the host
Of angels around me
That give me the courage to die
I adore this song too, not just for the orchestral arrangement and the singing, but also for the ambiguity in the lyrics. It's obviously about a broken-hearted person who has lost the love of his life There is some cautious optimism that things might get better, 'I'm going to mend this heart inside you've broken, it's just a matter of time', and then at the end is that ethereal and curiously jaunty 'Safety in Numbers' chant (lyrics below), which seems to be about committing suicide. It's almost as if the person has suddenly thought 'f**k it!' and decided not to go through the long painful task of pulling himself up by the bootstraps and taken the easy way out.
Show me the way They say safety in numbers I lift up my eyes to the sky And imagine a crowd
Of hearts that surround me And give the me courage to die Were you to weep And lie at my feet
Then you'd wash all my troubles away And imagine the host Of angels around me That give me the courage to die