@Stealthheart Well stated. Music is subjective and lyrics have personal meanings for different people. Some things cannot be appreciated but by individual experience, like delivering a baby.
"I fell through the floor" literally happened when my life flashed "before my eyes, uh-huh" the moment my sobbing cousin uttered my son's first name. His life flashed before my eyes, too. And, everything, "EVERYTHING I thought I knew fell to the side" and I had a keen sense of priorities for several weeks.
My son was tormented by military related PTSD. He couch surfed his last 7 months of life. When the song starts, the lyrics speaks his perception to me. How his life derailed and his personality "timber shakes these trails".
I hear him saying his final words...
softly screaming- "the pistol that YOU raised, has spoken"
(And you're)
"Going to need those names we take in vain (not golden needles)
Find it harder to remain
Well nothing's sacred
Still waiting on that explanation..."
In making sense of his journey, I have an explanation. In making meaning-of his journey-as it pertains to being his mother; I'm still waiting on that explanation.
Mom- "Right before my eyes, I saw the whole world lose control"
Son- "The whole world lost control, before my eyes, uh-huh"
Mom- "I fell through the floor"
Son- "I couldnt take it any more"
Mom- "I can't take this any more"
Mom & Son- "it breaks my mind"
Mom- "Everything I thought I knew fell to the side"
Son- "time went on and on I couldn't see past my own eyes"
Mom & Son- "past my eyes, past my eyes, past my eyes".
And that's after flow
Mom- "Way too long"
Son- "way too long"
Mom- "hold on-hold on
Son- "dead and gone so long"
Mom- "Hold on... hold on... hold on..."
He laid his head on trolley tracks not much more then 24 hours after the VA turned him away for help. Dead and gone but not forgotten.
@Stealthheart Well stated. Music is subjective and lyrics have personal meanings for different people. Some things cannot be appreciated but by individual experience, like delivering a baby.
"I fell through the floor" literally happened when my life flashed "before my eyes, uh-huh" the moment my sobbing cousin uttered my son's first name. His life flashed before my eyes, too. And, everything, "EVERYTHING I thought I knew fell to the side" and I had a keen sense of priorities for several weeks.
My son was tormented by military related PTSD. He couch surfed his last 7 months of life. When the song starts, the lyrics speaks his perception to me. How his life derailed and his personality "timber shakes these trails".
I hear him saying his final words...
softly screaming- "the pistol that YOU raised, has spoken"
(And you're)
"Going to need those names we take in vain (not golden needles) Find it harder to remain Well nothing's sacred Still waiting on that explanation..."
In making sense of his journey, I have an explanation. In making meaning-of his journey-as it pertains to being his mother; I'm still waiting on that explanation.
Mom- "Right before my eyes, I saw the whole world lose control" Son- "The whole world lost control, before my eyes, uh-huh" Mom- "I fell through the floor" Son- "I couldnt take it any more" Mom- "I can't take this any more" Mom & Son- "it breaks my mind" Mom- "Everything I thought I knew fell to the side" Son- "time went on and on I couldn't see past my own eyes" Mom & Son- "past my eyes, past my eyes, past my eyes".
And that's after flow Mom- "Way too long" Son- "way too long" Mom- "hold on-hold on Son- "dead and gone so long" Mom- "Hold on... hold on... hold on..."
He laid his head on trolley tracks not much more then 24 hours after the VA turned him away for help. Dead and gone but not forgotten.
@Vilomah i heard you. thank you for sharing this. i think this is what the artist intended for you.
@Vilomah i heard you. thank you for sharing this. i think this is what the artist intended for you.
@Woofagoofa thank you and the artist.
@Woofagoofa thank you and the artist.