Dealing with loss, pain, grief, and the alienation of life in a complicated world in addition to exorcising one's daemons. He's singing to convey not just reaching out to another, not just to "help" but to 'connect' and to possibly bring about some comfort & courage, of just being listened to, if not also the path toward healing. "If I can help you" is imbued via the notes carried in Hodgson's voice - so as to mean so much more, the words perhaps each human longs to hear from time to time.
Anyways, this song often makes me weep, and as above, that's what I hear. It's poetry, so you decide.
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Dealing with loss, pain, grief, and the alienation of life in a complicated world in addition to exorcising one's daemons. He's singing to convey not just reaching out to another, not just to "help" but to 'connect' and to possibly bring about some comfort & courage, of just being listened to, if not also the path toward healing. "If I can help you" is imbued via the notes carried in Hodgson's voice - so as to mean so much more, the words perhaps each human longs to hear from time to time. Anyways, this song often makes me weep, and as above, that's what I hear. It's poetry, so you decide.