It is a beautiful song that resonates with me as a parent. I hear a parent speaking to a child - telling a son or daughter not to be afraid of something new - presumably a new relationship. Maybe this is a father speaking to his daughter on the morning of her wedding. Or maybe it's a mother who son has just told her he thinks he's in love for the first time - he may have found "the one" but he doesn't know if he's ready.
The parent calling the child "Dear Life" is telling him or her not to worry - I know its different and scary, but don' t go off running from what's new. After all, I became somebody through loving you. No matter who you are, no matter what you have accomplished or what you have done wrong, you are nobody until you love somebody completely and until you have been loved. Parenting does that to you - it makes you "somebody" to "someone."
In the song, the parent reminisces about what it was like when the child was first born - how miraculous and special it was. "Those were the days, the days that changed my life and made me new."
Of course, it could also be about any loving relationship - between two people or between a person and God. For me it's parents and children, but the main point is that true, deep love changes us forever and makes us new creatures - something we never thought about becoming.
It is a beautiful song that resonates with me as a parent. I hear a parent speaking to a child - telling a son or daughter not to be afraid of something new - presumably a new relationship. Maybe this is a father speaking to his daughter on the morning of her wedding. Or maybe it's a mother who son has just told her he thinks he's in love for the first time - he may have found "the one" but he doesn't know if he's ready.
The parent calling the child "Dear Life" is telling him or her not to worry - I know its different and scary, but don' t go off running from what's new. After all, I became somebody through loving you. No matter who you are, no matter what you have accomplished or what you have done wrong, you are nobody until you love somebody completely and until you have been loved. Parenting does that to you - it makes you "somebody" to "someone."
In the song, the parent reminisces about what it was like when the child was first born - how miraculous and special it was. "Those were the days, the days that changed my life and made me new."
Of course, it could also be about any loving relationship - between two people or between a person and God. For me it's parents and children, but the main point is that true, deep love changes us forever and makes us new creatures - something we never thought about becoming.