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I do understand that the song sounds like it has to do with nature and earth and to be honest I am kinda half and half for that and what I constantly take it for. Also keep in mind that not many of their videos as far as I've seen go completely with the songs. Also that just because most of their songs are more activist and all doesn't mean that every song has to. I mean Tim McIlrath was bullied in school because his eyes were different colors so maybe he did something to do with that which leads me to my interpretation.
It seems to me like somebody has totally lost all control of their life and another person who they once knew but has literally been gone for years is showing up. They try to convince the person that they are still who that person used to know and can see that the person is unhappy. But they know that this isn't what the person's life is truly like but they also know that they obviously can't help any more than they have tried already so they begin to just go back away.
Then we hit the second verse where he begins noticing what their life is really like and somehow finds their way back to that person trying to help them and found in them a shoulder to lean on and a reason to live all by itself. When it says "I took one last look from, the heights that I once loved, and then I ran like hell." It's not that they loved being there but they were there many times before, but they knew that they had everything now and left these heights hopefully forever.
As for the third verse it's the person recollecting on all of the reasons why they were up on the rooftops at all but the person is still there for them and is, as to say "putting up walls" to try and protect them.
As for the refrain I think it's that the person knows where they are but at the same time they don't because as I stated they've lost all control but the odd part is why it's repeated. Which is why I also tend to like the environment idea but hey I can have multiple opinions.
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I do understand that the song sounds like it has to do with nature and earth and to be honest I am kinda half and half for that and what I constantly take it for. Also keep in mind that not many of their videos as far as I've seen go completely with the songs. Also that just because most of their songs are more activist and all doesn't mean that every song has to. I mean Tim McIlrath was bullied in school because his eyes were different colors so maybe he did something to do with that which leads me to my interpretation.
It seems to me like somebody has totally lost all control of their life and another person who they once knew but has literally been gone for years is showing up. They try to convince the person that they are still who that person used to know and can see that the person is unhappy. But they know that this isn't what the person's life is truly like but they also know that they obviously can't help any more than they have tried already so they begin to just go back away.
Then we hit the second verse where he begins noticing what their life is really like and somehow finds their way back to that person trying to help them and found in them a shoulder to lean on and a reason to live all by itself. When it says "I took one last look from, the heights that I once loved, and then I ran like hell." It's not that they loved being there but they were there many times before, but they knew that they had everything now and left these heights hopefully forever.
As for the third verse it's the person recollecting on all of the reasons why they were up on the rooftops at all but the person is still there for them and is, as to say "putting up walls" to try and protect them.
As for the refrain I think it's that the person knows where they are but at the same time they don't because as I stated they've lost all control but the odd part is why it's repeated. Which is why I also tend to like the environment idea but hey I can have multiple opinions.