This is one of my all-time favorite songs. I think that the whole concept of 'hardly feeling human anymore' is applicable to nearly all situations; maybe you're confronting a belief or you've lost someone extremely close to you. The middle of the song shows the true struggle that is coping, or dealing, with the tragedy: "Gnashing my teeth and speaking in tongues; Still shaking something mental at a loss for the words I'd once known." To me, these lyrics remind me of an exorcist of some sort; someone trying to deal with a tragic change of some sort. As the song comes to an end, the motto is to "stand and hold steady now," meaning once you've been able to find that tiny glimpse of human-ness within yourself, you must hold on to it as tightly as possible and (metaphorically) hold yourself up right and remain steady. Absolutely brilliant.
This is one of my all-time favorite songs. I think that the whole concept of 'hardly feeling human anymore' is applicable to nearly all situations; maybe you're confronting a belief or you've lost someone extremely close to you. The middle of the song shows the true struggle that is coping, or dealing, with the tragedy: "Gnashing my teeth and speaking in tongues; Still shaking something mental at a loss for the words I'd once known." To me, these lyrics remind me of an exorcist of some sort; someone trying to deal with a tragic change of some sort. As the song comes to an end, the motto is to "stand and hold steady now," meaning once you've been able to find that tiny glimpse of human-ness within yourself, you must hold on to it as tightly as possible and (metaphorically) hold yourself up right and remain steady. Absolutely brilliant.