The song tends to define how someone feels in a variety of relationships.
There's speculation (as in I can't find the source outside of SongFacts that this song was wrote about his daughter. If you're a parent and you read these words you could apply this to your child easily.
You could also apply this to being terribly in love, terribly broken hearted or in the midst of a one way relationship. I've found myself going to this song several times in my life, always in different places and find it to have different meanings.
While we may never know the exact feelings and meanings behind it, we have to appreciate that a song takes a lyrical structure and creates an extreme emotional response among many people in different situations.
The song tends to define how someone feels in a variety of relationships.
There's speculation (as in I can't find the source outside of SongFacts that this song was wrote about his daughter. If you're a parent and you read these words you could apply this to your child easily.
You could also apply this to being terribly in love, terribly broken hearted or in the midst of a one way relationship. I've found myself going to this song several times in my life, always in different places and find it to have different meanings.
While we may never know the exact feelings and meanings behind it, we have to appreciate that a song takes a lyrical structure and creates an extreme emotional response among many people in different situations.