"Hope
I feel the hope running low
We never found our way home
There is no more world
The land is gone
Water is all that survived that one
There are no escapes
Gone are the days of mistakes
Our mistakes
And did you see
The night wore on
And became the days that never begun
The disappearing days
You know where I'm from
Is the only place that forever stays young
Lost at sea
We're lost at sea
I Wouldn't know my face if you all were me
All we have is all we see
There is no more hope
There are no dreams"
To me, right now, this song has a special meaning. I'm conscious that it won't obviously mean the same thing at all for everybody, but, anyway, I'm going to explain what this song means to me.
To me, this song is about the decadence of something you really trust in.
You know, not as there were a "simply" (if we can say that !) lost of hope...
It's deeper... As if all in what you believed before had gone, that's why there's no more hope.
When you spent a big of your life believing there's something better somewhere in the world, in some special place and that you suddenly realize that this place doesn't exist, except in your mind... Our mind can do a lot of things... As a place where you could be finally happy...
But when all is falling appart in your life, even if you've done everything to be in this place, you realize that this place wasn't as "beautiful" as you thought. I don't know if you see the point of what I want to mean...
We're always searching for a better situation, whatsoever it's the city you live in, your job, your relationship... You're always searching for the "perfect" thing. And in a way, it is a good thing, because it allows us to think (at least for a moment), that our life can be better, and that is hope to me. But, at a point in your life, when you've done everything you thought could be better, (even sacrified a lot of things), and realize that your life isn't better, and is even worse than before, you lose all your confidence in life...
I mean, it's kinda "What the fuck ?", "what the point of trying if nothing can make me happy ?"...
And you realize that it wasn't people or places or anything that was bad elsewhere, where you lived before, but that it was yourself, that was bad...
So, in these moments, you think "There's no more hope"...
And these lyrics : "We never found our way home
There is no more world
The land is gone
Water is all that survived that one
There are no escapes
Gone are the days of mistakes
Our mistakes",
There is no more world
The land is gone
Water is all that survived that one
There are no escapes
Gone are the days of mistakes
Our mistakes",
to me it's metaphorical. The "world" and "the land" is the place you've created in your mind, a kind of "paradize". "Water" is yourself... When all your dreams are falling appart, the only thing which stays is yourself...
And when He says "Gone are the days of mistakes, our mistakes", it really emphasizes the fact that it's all by your fault. The situation you are now, and the lost hope. But now, there's no point in feeling sorry for yourself... there's no point in being sad or whatever, because you know that this "place" had never existed, it was all in your mind.
And all you can feel in those moments is emptiness, a wide emptiness that fills yourself, that's what "water" also means to me, water is wide and undefined, as emptiness...
