Here's the real question -- who is the "her" in the song? Is it the cemetery? Is it the city? Is it a 3rd person outside view of herself as in she is reminding herself what she always used to say to others -- that life was not meant to be wasted? I think this is important because sometimes it seems as though she is speaking directly to "her" and sometimes she is speaking about "her".
In my own head, I see the singer/voice sitting in the cemetery, looking at her mother's grave and the city behind/beyond it and thinking about life and death and the things her mother used to tell her. In her musings, she comes to realize that there is no certainty in life -- all we can do is try -- but she also believes that we fulfill our lives when we are always chasing the sun. So fill up your lungs and just run! We'll never catch it, but that pursuit, that running, is what we are here to do.
Here's the real question -- who is the "her" in the song? Is it the cemetery? Is it the city? Is it a 3rd person outside view of herself as in she is reminding herself what she always used to say to others -- that life was not meant to be wasted? I think this is important because sometimes it seems as though she is speaking directly to "her" and sometimes she is speaking about "her".
In my own head, I see the singer/voice sitting in the cemetery, looking at her mother's grave and the city behind/beyond it and thinking about life and death and the things her mother used to tell her. In her musings, she comes to realize that there is no certainty in life -- all we can do is try -- but she also believes that we fulfill our lives when we are always chasing the sun. So fill up your lungs and just run! We'll never catch it, but that pursuit, that running, is what we are here to do.