FW: One Last Breath
From: "Christi" <christip@SOUTHSHORE.COM>
To: <CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM>
Date: Thu
4 Apr 2002 14:08:09 -0800
FW: One Last Breath

Hi David,

I feel the author of these songs has grown and changed since "What's This Life For" was written and that this song, "One Last Breath" was not written with the same frame of mind.

I think the lines which precede the one you mention, including the one just before..  "Hold me now", "I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking" imply something other than the meaning of being dead in body & buried, "six feet under".
I think, if read in the context in which it is written, that it doesn't mean the body's actual death, but a death, of sorts, in what was before, perhaps in belief, or a relationship bwt. the author and God, parent, or other significant other. . That, "I'm down to my last breath of that "connection/belief, but feel that maybe it's not so far gone (six feet down, ain't so far down)  that it can't be revived still, but maybe in a different way."  Just my opinion though. :-)
Many times, a death of a relationship or a belief is just as dark a feeling, as death itself.

Christi


From: "David Brush" <brushd@clarkson.edu>
Subject: Re:      Re: One Last Breath


But what do you make of the references to death?  "Maybe six feet ain't so far down"  It seems to have a much darker meaning in my opinion, kind of a follow up to "What's This Life For"