I've finally manage to find how to express what this song means for me !!!! After 3 years after I first heard it, and now I've understood why it made me feel so good when I heard it first in 2006... I just couldn't express it, but now....
Here is a kind of commentary by me about this wonderful song :
"Dying Song
I'm going away forever
I'm going away forever
Never coming back this way
Never coming back to this place
What I need is a heaven
What I really need is a heaven
A place to go where I can really be
A place to go where
I can really be
Where I can really be
Dreaming my life away counts for nothing
Dreaming my life away counts for nothing
But nothing ever is the end
No nothing ever is the end
It's sure been a full life for me baby
It's sure been a full life for me yeh
It's sure been a full life for me baby
It's sure been a full life for me
It's sure been a full life for me baby
It's sure been a full life for me yeh
It's sure been a full life for me baby
It's sure been a full life for me
It's sure been a full life for me baby
It's sure been a full life for me yeh
It's sure been a full life for me yeeaah
It's sure been a full life for me..."
To me, this is a kind of hymn to the life that you've lead before your death.
That you musn't regret anything that happened in your life, and that you musn't be affraid to die, now that you've reviewed all your life...
It's a little like in the song "Ascension" to me, even if it's not the same ending, as in Ascension there's a kind of rebirth... Here it's a human being confronted to his own death and reviewing all that He lived in his life...
I love so much this song... Even if it may sound strange, it's so sad and optmistic at the same time... you know ?
I'd really like to die with this state of mind... Not being affraid of dying, not regreting anything in my life... Be happy to enter the last phase of your life... Be at peace with yourself...I think it needs a lot of work to achieve this point of your life... It's not the same thing as a suicide, it's compeletely different to me, it's the idea of accepting your own death, thinking about all you achieved in your life... And that "Nothing Ever is the End" because you've left something behind yourself, artistically or humanly, anyway, that you've left your trace behind yourself...
It's really weird, because I'm sure most of people see this song as a sad song or a suicide hymn, but, maybe because of what I was living at the time I first heard it, I prefer to see this wonderful song as optimistic...
And yes, it is possible to write songs about death that are optimistic... and that's the best songs ever, because they go beyond the only sad and depressing image of death that all the world has...
Death is not so bad when you know that it's the good time for it and that you've at least achieved something in your life...
9 comments:
I'm totally with you. And I think that this gives you the message:
"No nothing ever is the end"
This can be applicable in a lot of situations of your life...
When you think: oh, I lost, etc.
No nothing ever is the end.
Merry Christmas!!
hey dude, your blog is really great
you truly are a great source about john and your articles are very insightful
please dont stop writing :)
Thank you so much for your really kind comment ! It means a lot for me to know that my Blog is appreciated, thank you so much ! ^^
Also, why did you not comment on John's departure from RHCP at all? :-/
//I commented on the wrong post accidentally, sorry x_x The post above theoretically belongs to your newest post
Nevermind ! ;)
I didn't comment about his departure from thr Rhcp simply because John doesn't seem to want to explain more his decision... Moreover, He's mature enough to make the choices which seem good for him, He certainly grew more and more boring about all things which come with the rhcp's international success... For a true musician like him, it sure must be really embarassing doing things that don't come with music, as some press interviews which are really childish to my mind (I'm talking about teen press and all
... you know when you've come so far in your life as John and that now your entirely music is more about philosophy, it must be really upsetting talking about what you eat, what sport you do etc !). And I think that's there's no more big interest now in being in a band, whereas He knows now exactly where he wants his music to go... I don't know if that's clear enough, but, you know, I entirely respect his choice, because if he wasn't happy with making an other album with the rhcp, there wasn't any reason to go on being in the band...
He is an human being like everyone and not a machine which put records when the press say it...
An now, I've commented about his departure ! ;)
I think It's all releated to the movie brown bunny
He make that song for that movie and it's all in the energie of that movie he said
I think it's al related to the movie bronw bunny. John wright the songs for that movie. I think it's all in the energie from that movie. I never see that movie. I know only that it's about a man with a motor cycle or something.
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