…Only Ashes…
This is a song that has really been on my mind a lot lately. I think that songs can be interpreted in many different ways, but for me, this song is the process of becoming who I am. In the past, I have been a person that I really didn’t like, and even more, a person who was unhappy with life. I have finally come to a place where I am extremely happy and content…just being who I am and where I am. So for me, it took a lot to shed off the old person, and become the person that I am right now. It’s like I “torched the part of me that was you” - this is my new self talking to the old. This may seem a bit weird, but I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. And every time I hear this song, I can’t help but smiling :).
Piece by piece, and bit by bit
I’ll break this down for you, real slow-
But I can’t whisper all of this
and I can’t seem to let this go,
So I’ll watch the matches, turn to ashes-
I’ll watch the matches, turn to ashes.
I can tell as you turn, I smell the sulfur so clear
and fire’s a beautiful sound-
and the wings that you burn, turn to ashes my dear
and ashes just fall to the ground.
Yeah, we’re only ashes.
Part by part and inch by inch,
You’ll have your mile when its through.
Incinerate what’s left of this
and torch the part of me that’s you,
So I’ll watch the matches, turn to ashes.
I can tell as you turn, I smell the sulfur so clear
and fire’s a beautiful sound-
and the wings that you burn turn to ashes my dear
and ashes just fall to the ground.
Yeah, we’re only ashes.
