Children of the Sky
Echoes of Lost Love: Reflections on Unfulfilled Dreams
Lyrics
So rise the children of the sky
Expressing the emergence or ascent of a group referred to as "children of the sky."
How they wave at us from up above
Describing how the mentioned group interacts or communicates with those below, using the metaphor of waving from above.
While we here on the waves drift from day to day
Portraying a sense of drifting through life's challenges while the mentioned group remains distant.
Never knowing of their love
Highlighting the lack of awareness or recognition of the love from the mentioned group.
Those times you and I had tried
Reflecting on past attempts by the speaker and someone else to change their challenging ways.
To change our impossible ways
Acknowledging the difficulty in overcoming seemingly impossible circumstances.
But on way to become what we'd become
Describing a journey towards a certain identity, but losing the opportunity to achieve it.
We lost that chance again
Expressing the regret of missing the chance to transform into a better version of themselves.
That smile, that memory of a time
Recalling a smile and memory from a specific time, highlighting the lack of learning from past mistakes.
How we cruel people never really learn
Commenting on the tendency of humanity to be cruel and slow in learning lessons.
And when I got home that dawn to learn you had gone
Narrating the discovery upon returning home that someone significant has departed permanently.
Never to return
Emphasizing the finality of the departure with no possibility of return.
So rise the children of the sky
Repeating the earlier description of the ascent of the "children of the sky."
How they wave to us from above
Reiterating the waving gesture from above and the distant relationship with the mentioned group.
While we here waste away upon our day today
Depicting a sense of wasting away in mundane daily activities without awareness of the mentioned group's love.
Never knowing of their love
Reemphasizing the lack of knowledge or awareness of the love from the "children of the sky."
Those times you and I had tried
Recalling past efforts to reclaim something taken by the world in a cruel manner.
To take back what the world had cruelly stole
Expressing the difficulty in recovering what was lost due to external cruelty.
But when I see you, I see that missing part of me
Linking the sight of someone to a missing part of the speaker, suggesting an incomplete self.
That never will be whole
Conveying the permanent incompleteness, as the missing part will never be whole.
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