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Mar 1st 2021!⃝This songs has always hit me in a different way than other music and sad songs. When I was younger, the song was just labeled as "pretty" and never took the time to appreciate what it meant. As I grew older, and entered my teen years, I began to realize how melancholy and emotional this song is. Recently, I had to say goodbye to a person I really cared about, who was a boy who lived 2000 miles away from me, and every time I hear this song I can't help but think about him. He was one of my closest friends and one of the only people that I truly loved, and the feeling was mutual. When I was told I wasn't allowed to talk to him anymore, and certain restrictions were put onto me to prevent communication with him, I grew more withdrawn and desolate from the world I know of.
The meaning of this song to me reminds me of the first few days struggling to cope with his absence. The words "And I am feeling so small, it was over my head, I know nothing at all," was one interpretation of the only thing I thought about at night. One day I was listening to the radio, and the song came on. As I began to drink in every word said, it made me feel as though I was falling through a cold hole. This song became the only song that would permanently bring me to tears, thinking of my lost Ani. I am writing this almost five months after losing him, and the song still brings me back to a simpler time where it was me and him against the world, against my parents, against out internal problems. I wish I could have told him I loved him and that I was saying goodbye, and I wish I was able to reassure him that we would see each other again. I wish I am able to tell him that doing this to him still haunts me every day, but it is the right thing to keep peace with my family, and this could be a good thing. You want my interpretation- This song is of saying goodbye to someone you love, whether it is a lover, a friend, a pet, a parent, and knowing that moving on without them is the best for the both of you.
