But get this: this state of dying is intertwined with the life/death continuum, which is the essence of a living creature. But she is not crazy and knows that it is silent.

Where she is then is an abstract space where the very planet she walks on is “a graveyard shelf.” No wonder the cemetery is being filled with the echo of heartbeats. The “really old city” she speaks about is just the idea of dying, obviously a state of being that’s really old. You can also say that this song has nothing to do with New York City. In the lines “All we can do is try, / And live like we’re still alive,” she is blurring reality and fantasy by giving that deceased person life again. The memory of what this person said is how the musician will defeat the existential angst working inside her, because the infinite supply of hope in humans will provide for her the real-life movement toward an improved future. For example, you can say that this song is about a musician standing in one of New York City's cemeteries - bordering the dead and the living - remembering someone that died.

General CommentThere is more than one way to interpret this song.

With Manhattan behind her, three million stunning remindersĬapture the feeling that my earth is somebody's ceilingĪnd to open our eyes and to learn from the skyĪnd the gift of my heartbeat sounds like a symphony Older than others the skyscrapers, little tombstone brothers

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