My thoughts on this song, one of my favorites, are the following.
I think it is a parent-child relation, or a family relation. It could be a grown child and their parent, but the 'flesh of my flesh' refers to a familial relation.
This is the scenario I picture. A mother is singing to her grown son working abroad. 'I miss your heart beating next to mine' could refer to the time when she last hugged him. 'I know you had no choice' would refer to him moving away for work. 'The right words were always hard to find when all our time was fine, when darling you were mine, all mine' is about how she felt she never spoke about how much she loved him while they were together.
The next part is about how the son is going through difficulties, and she tells him words of encouragement ('All this darkness, cannot hurt us, Cause they made you from the light'). It may be that he has to come back home to his 'birthplace', which would be a terrible defeat given that he had made it abroad, but he 'will make it through, this night'.
The lines that really throw me off are the 'I come back home'. If they said 'come back home', it would be the plea of a mother, to her son in trouble, to return to her care.
I have felt this too, missing my siblings that live abroad. Which doesn't make much sense, since I live abroad too. I do miss their voices singing right with mine.
My thoughts on this song, one of my favorites, are the following.
I think it is a parent-child relation, or a family relation. It could be a grown child and their parent, but the 'flesh of my flesh' refers to a familial relation.
This is the scenario I picture. A mother is singing to her grown son working abroad. 'I miss your heart beating next to mine' could refer to the time when she last hugged him. 'I know you had no choice' would refer to him moving away for work. 'The right words were always hard to find when all our time was fine, when darling you were mine, all mine' is about how she felt she never spoke about how much she loved him while they were together.
The next part is about how the son is going through difficulties, and she tells him words of encouragement ('All this darkness, cannot hurt us, Cause they made you from the light'). It may be that he has to come back home to his 'birthplace', which would be a terrible defeat given that he had made it abroad, but he 'will make it through, this night'.
The lines that really throw me off are the 'I come back home'. If they said 'come back home', it would be the plea of a mother, to her son in trouble, to return to her care.
I have felt this too, missing my siblings that live abroad. Which doesn't make much sense, since I live abroad too. I do miss their voices singing right with mine.