This is my favorite Sarah McLachlan song and has personal meaning to me. It has helped me deal with many breakups.
I feel the entire song is about the core of a breakup, blaming oneself, taking that blame on, and finding fault. Black and white are commonly referred to right or wrong. No gray area. My fault or her fault. I am the archive of our failure - this is all my fault and I know it. But can I deal with it? No. I can't. People don't like that. People need to see me not this way. Even though I am wound up as tight as I can be and because of this loss I have no idea who I am or what I have become. How do I move on when I feel so much pressure for this loss and I am not allowed to show it or to express it? I have so much anger inside ("The animal awakens") but I can't deal with this now... so I push it away to get through each day.
I wish a video had been made for this. I would love to see what Sarah McLachlan's interpretation of this song visually would be. It defines what I think is happening a lot in our society - people on the outside looking cool, calm, and collected, and inside rotting with anger and pressure trying to live with the denial of what is really happening and their failure to deal with it.
This is my favorite Sarah McLachlan song and has personal meaning to me. It has helped me deal with many breakups.
I feel the entire song is about the core of a breakup, blaming oneself, taking that blame on, and finding fault. Black and white are commonly referred to right or wrong. No gray area. My fault or her fault. I am the archive of our failure - this is all my fault and I know it. But can I deal with it? No. I can't. People don't like that. People need to see me not this way. Even though I am wound up as tight as I can be and because of this loss I have no idea who I am or what I have become. How do I move on when I feel so much pressure for this loss and I am not allowed to show it or to express it? I have so much anger inside ("The animal awakens") but I can't deal with this now... so I push it away to get through each day.
I wish a video had been made for this. I would love to see what Sarah McLachlan's interpretation of this song visually would be. It defines what I think is happening a lot in our society - people on the outside looking cool, calm, and collected, and inside rotting with anger and pressure trying to live with the denial of what is really happening and their failure to deal with it.