This song, like so many of Karl Alvarez’s masterpieces, talk about his inner struggle. I know this struggle. It is like Hope, except he is with someone who truly loves him. But he still has that longing, that mental and emotional block created by the shame he is drowning in. He can’t hear her love for him, even though he sees evidences of it every day. Because he gets so wrapped up in the disaster that is his inner world—pining for other women, self-loathing, hopelessness, vain ambitions—how he is his own destruction. Feeling this all the time, he is unable to love her back because he doesn’t feel worthy to have a love like what he receives from her. Has to be my favorite song because it speaks so deeply to my soul.
This song, like so many of Karl Alvarez’s masterpieces, talk about his inner struggle. I know this struggle. It is like Hope, except he is with someone who truly loves him. But he still has that longing, that mental and emotional block created by the shame he is drowning in. He can’t hear her love for him, even though he sees evidences of it every day. Because he gets so wrapped up in the disaster that is his inner world—pining for other women, self-loathing, hopelessness, vain ambitions—how he is his own destruction. Feeling this all the time, he is unable to love her back because he doesn’t feel worthy to have a love like what he receives from her. Has to be my favorite song because it speaks so deeply to my soul.