I've always thought the song meant the visit of a daughter to her father's grave. The father (Robert) is somewhat able to feel her presence, he feels her "prettier than ever", "older than me now" as she probably has more age now than the age at when he died.
"I'm so glad you came
I'm so glad you remembered
The walking through walls in the heart of December"
These ones above can be understood as the visit to the graveyard, usually in Christmas and such important dates in the calendar. "Walking through walls" could also refer on how do the modern graveyards look like.
"The blindness of happiness
Of falling down laughing"
To me, these two lines mean how they used to play when she was a child.
"All this in an instant before I can kiss you".
By being dead, the father has no real sense of the pass of time, therefore it will be an instant until she is dead too and both meet again, so he will be able to kiss her.
Then the last two lines of the song kind of kill my theory, but I will still understand it like this.
I've always thought the song meant the visit of a daughter to her father's grave. The father (Robert) is somewhat able to feel her presence, he feels her "prettier than ever", "older than me now" as she probably has more age now than the age at when he died.
"I'm so glad you came I'm so glad you remembered The walking through walls in the heart of December"
These ones above can be understood as the visit to the graveyard, usually in Christmas and such important dates in the calendar. "Walking through walls" could also refer on how do the modern graveyards look like.
"The blindness of happiness Of falling down laughing"
To me, these two lines mean how they used to play when she was a child.
"All this in an instant before I can kiss you".
By being dead, the father has no real sense of the pass of time, therefore it will be an instant until she is dead too and both meet again, so he will be able to kiss her.
Then the last two lines of the song kind of kill my theory, but I will still understand it like this.
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