I believe this song is about learning to be at ease with your own self, especially if you’ve previously struggled with anxiety or depression. The speaker is talking to themselves. At one point they were disjointed into two people- the adult who suffers from anxiety/depression and the inner child, wanting to be loved and feel joy. When the”two” meld into one, the speaker is finally at peace with her darker side and heals her inner child’s wounds. The song is played in minor chords, so it is a sad story because people who suffer from anxiety/depression know that once they get free from it, they must mourn the person they were, and all the pain and suffering they felt. The coal mine is a dark, deep underground place often associated with hardship, little reward, and even leading to chronic illness- not unlike the human experience at times. Picking up diamonds in a coal mine is choosing a life of suffering for the extremely rare hope and chance of getting out of that suffering by external, superficial means. Rising from the coal mine, bringing only what you came with, means shedding the weight of your trauma and all the distractions that stemmed from being sick, and getting back to the real work of cultivating abundance and joy that only your inner child aka true self is capable of doing. Forgetting your name and the reference of the door width never changing, are also references to returning to your true self (who you were as a child before suffering). Shedding the diamonds is symbolic of breaking the cycles of superficial healing, aka sustained suffering. Once she begins to shine like the diamond bright, laughing into the night, dancing, and dangling in the light, her and her inner child have healed. All of the references to night could be the symbolic time of us being alone, facing ourselves. Mercury is poisonous and makes you mentally ill. Shadows are also. a strong reference to our demons within.
I believe this song is about learning to be at ease with your own self, especially if you’ve previously struggled with anxiety or depression. The speaker is talking to themselves. At one point they were disjointed into two people- the adult who suffers from anxiety/depression and the inner child, wanting to be loved and feel joy. When the”two” meld into one, the speaker is finally at peace with her darker side and heals her inner child’s wounds. The song is played in minor chords, so it is a sad story because people who suffer from anxiety/depression know that once they get free from it, they must mourn the person they were, and all the pain and suffering they felt. The coal mine is a dark, deep underground place often associated with hardship, little reward, and even leading to chronic illness- not unlike the human experience at times. Picking up diamonds in a coal mine is choosing a life of suffering for the extremely rare hope and chance of getting out of that suffering by external, superficial means. Rising from the coal mine, bringing only what you came with, means shedding the weight of your trauma and all the distractions that stemmed from being sick, and getting back to the real work of cultivating abundance and joy that only your inner child aka true self is capable of doing. Forgetting your name and the reference of the door width never changing, are also references to returning to your true self (who you were as a child before suffering). Shedding the diamonds is symbolic of breaking the cycles of superficial healing, aka sustained suffering. Once she begins to shine like the diamond bright, laughing into the night, dancing, and dangling in the light, her and her inner child have healed. All of the references to night could be the symbolic time of us being alone, facing ourselves. Mercury is poisonous and makes you mentally ill. Shadows are also. a strong reference to our demons within.