Echoes
Echoes of Strength: Overcoming Pain and Loss Through Resilience
Lyrics
A quick bullet: a tough one to dodge (no one ever does)
A challenging situation that is hard to avoid or escape.
It cuts fast and deep (picks your bones clean)
The impact is profound, causing significant damage.
And you just have to let it bleed
Accepting the pain and allowing it to run its course.
I know the pain, it's all to familiar
The speaker understands the pain intimately.
If I could sing words to help, you know I would
Expressing a desire to help through words if possible.
And it would end the pain
A wish that singing could alleviate the pain.
But you will have to let this make you stronger
Encouraging resilience and personal growth from the experience.
Difficult to overcome
Acknowledging the difficulty of overcoming the pain.
The name of a ghost still dancing on our tongues
A lingering memory that continues to affect.
So bittersweet (these memories)
Reflecting on memories with mixed emotions.
I wish they could have taken me
Expressing a desire to take the place of someone in pain.
Struggle through tough times
Encouraging perseverance during challenging times.
And destroy all your fears
Confronting and overcoming fears.
Don't let this win over you
Resisting the negative impact of the situation.
Soon you will end the pain
Anticipating the end of pain and the resulting strength.
And you will say that it did make you stronger
Affirming that the experience will contribute to personal strength.
This is how you overcome
Describing the process of overcoming challenges.
(these voices fade away as the memory did)
Voices and memories fading away.
And we've all heard it sung
Referencing a common theme expressed through singing.
And we don't know what we got till it's gone
Realizing the value of something only after losing it.
And then we want it back so much
A strong desire for something lost.
Nobody ever warned youâ?¦
Regret over lack of warning or preparation.
Breathe in, take in it deep
Taking a deep breath, emphasizing ownership of one's feelings.
Cross your heart, it's yours for you to keep
A commitment to cherish personal experiences.
Wishful: I guess I never was
Admitting to past unrealistic wishes.
And I will breathe in, take in it deep
Repeating the commitment to cherish personal experiences.
Cross your heart, it's yours for you to keep
Reiteration of the commitment to personal experiences.
Wishful: I guess I never was
Acknowledging past unrealistic wishes once again.
(And I will keep, pieces of you alive in me.)
Keeping memories of someone alive in the speaker.
I am looking up now, death can't change us
Looking ahead with a determination that death cannot change.
I am looking up now, death can't change us
Reaffirming the resistance to change by death.
I will, stand alone
Expressing the strength to stand alone.
I will, learn from this, I will
Committing to learning from the experience.
I will, mourn the loss and I will be stronger
Acknowledging mourning but emphasizing eventual strength.
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