Meaning of Give Me Back My Hometown: The key phrase is I used to love this view. We all hate letting go, because in a perfect world we wouldn't have to. Loves would never die and tragedy would never strike. But they do. That's where the song ends: hopeless bitter loss. It's beautiful in it's own way - if you're hurting that bad, it means your love ran deep. Still, Give Me Back My Hometown is missing a key ingredient: hope. Despair might be what you feel like, but it won't get you anywhere. First, you have to trust that you can make a difference. Second, you can't forget that even if you fail, there's more to life than this world. You hope that when life is over and done with, there's place where no one ever has to die again. Hope keeps love alive. In spite of loss. Even in spite of failure.
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Meaning of Give Me Back My Hometown: The key phrase is I used to love this view. We all hate letting go, because in a perfect world we wouldn't have to. Loves would never die and tragedy would never strike. But they do. That's where the song ends: hopeless bitter loss. It's beautiful in it's own way - if you're hurting that bad, it means your love ran deep. Still, Give Me Back My Hometown is missing a key ingredient: hope. Despair might be what you feel like, but it won't get you anywhere. First, you have to trust that you can make a difference. Second, you can't forget that even if you fail, there's more to life than this world. You hope that when life is over and done with, there's place where no one ever has to die again. Hope keeps love alive. In spite of loss. Even in spite of failure.
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