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This song is an anthem exploring the idea we are not to take life for granted. We can easily fall into drifting along through life’s peaks and troughs as the song suggests. Not that the falling is necessarily emotionally easy, the returning is often a long hard journey. Yet, somehow, on a practical level, just allowing life’s circumstances to dominate is sometimes the most straightforward option.
So, what does this song say about our experience of life and making the most of it? It has a real impact on our relationships with those we care about.
The opening verse speaks of the importance of telling others how we really feel as we may not always have them in our lives. In our risk adverse world, opening up to others may seem a scary prospect. If we really tell people how we feel, will they find us odd, or not want to be around us anymore? The truth is, we may be vulnerable to losing those we care about regardless of our efforts to control or protect how others perceive us. What we don’t say is often more damaging than what we do say.
This requires us to take responsibility for ourselves in our relationships with others: You can have it all but not til you move it. We need to make the decision to be active in communicating our thoughts, feelings, aspirations and fears. The song reflects the reality that we don’t really have any other choice. To do nothing makes no real sense as we cannot control how someone will react to us being honest.
Potentially a hard message? Well, yes. But the song accepts our journey through hard times in our relationships with others and ourselves. Just listen to the lyrics about paying our due to the dirt. It concludes there are no easy way out or corners to be cut as when we do, we ultimately fall short of our desired outcome.
When we make this choice to act, we can hold our heads high knowing every decision we make, every idea we communicate, always comes with a risk. But surely it's better to risk getting something wrong rather than not having tried.
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