I think what gets me most about this song is that there are so many emotions and experiences that can be so complicated and frustrating to put into words but some things are so universal and powerful that you can be a total booger and so long as you feel the emotion totally you can make a song that gets through. Iced Earth are absolutely total boogers but their melodramatic nonsense still carries through the emotion of loss when it's clearly felt. Every time I listen to this song I think about the one real friend I have and how I can believe that one day he'll be done with all of this and decide that he can't take any more and then I'll be stuck here alone listening to this song and hoping atheism is wrong and one day I'll be gone too and he'll pull up in his car and we'll go play disc golf and drink beers without caring about the rest of the world and its indifference to being awkward.
