The truth of Bell’s sexuality is not known. He had a longtime girlfriend that left him, but who knows what the story was behind that. It doesn’t matter. This is a song of longing and realization.
Bell was into Christianity and was a spiritual seeker. But it didn’t stop his depression or his wanting to be able to connect with someone. He needed someone to love. He tried to take a spiritual overview of it, telling himself basically that he was a part of everything, that he had oneness with the cosmos, with life itself, but that didn’t help him with the pain of his longing.
He could tell himself he was the cosmos, he was the wind, he was part of this as-great-as-all existence oneness, and that his human desires and needs were insignificant, but it didn’t take away that pain.
The truth of Bell’s sexuality is not known. He had a longtime girlfriend that left him, but who knows what the story was behind that. It doesn’t matter. This is a song of longing and realization.
Bell was into Christianity and was a spiritual seeker. But it didn’t stop his depression or his wanting to be able to connect with someone. He needed someone to love. He tried to take a spiritual overview of it, telling himself basically that he was a part of everything, that he had oneness with the cosmos, with life itself, but that didn’t help him with the pain of his longing.
He could tell himself he was the cosmos, he was the wind, he was part of this as-great-as-all existence oneness, and that his human desires and needs were insignificant, but it didn’t take away that pain.