Lyrics
Watched him walk away (watched him walk away)
Observing someone departing
Climb the endless shadow side
Climbing a dark and challenging path
Watched him holding on
Witnessing someone holding on to something
(watched him holding on) (watched him walk away)
Continuation of observing the person leaving while holding on
It was a thousand years, a thousand miles, a thousand dreams, a thousand minutes
Emphasizing the passage of a significant amount of time and experiences
With no goodbye
Parting without a proper farewell
Disappear from me (a thousand miles, a thousand dreams, a thousand minutes)
Expressing the sudden disappearance of the person from the speaker's life
Hold on!
An urgent plea to hold on or endure
As he climbed the highest peak of the dark mountain
The person is ascending the highest point of a dark and challenging mountain
Let the mountain sleep
Suggesting the mountain to rest or be at peace
In the past with all our bad dreams
Associating the past with negative dreams
Was it a metaphor for all the subtle ways we would grow apart?
Questioning if the mountain climb symbolizes the subtle ways relationships can deteriorate
Was it mortality?
Considering the possibility that the climb represents mortality
Climbing and plunged right off of the edge of his life!
The person climbs and falls off the edge of life
Into the hands of a loving God, oh reaching forward to get torn apart
Falling into the hands of a benevolent force, possibly symbolic of afterlife
With his hands in the air, was he laughing and dancing or only just trying to wave "Goodbye!"
Contemplating the person's state as they depart, uncertain if they are joyful or bidding farewell
Say a prayer for me (Hold on!)
A request for prayers as the person climbs the dark mountain
As he climbed the highest peak of the dark mountain
Reiterating the person's ascent to the highest point of the dark mountain
Let the mountain fall
Suggesting the mountain's collapse or descent after the climb
Struck me down until I canâ??t go on
Expressing personal impact or suffering from the departure
Let go! Let me fall down! onto! the ground
An urging to let go and accept a fall
Don't leave
An appeal not to abandon or leave
Go on alone
Encouraging the person to continue alone
It felt like a thousand years
Reiteration of the long duration of the experience
It was a thousand miles away
Emphasizing the considerable physical distance
It was a thousand miles away
Repeating the theme of a vast separation
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