hurricane
When I first heard this song, it REALLY fit my mood at the time. It's so powerful and I got immediate chill bumps.
It's just about an imperfect person or situation. But you're still hooked or dealing with issues and can't find a way to make it better. It's kind of when you're stuck in the moment. So you feel all angsty.
It's a great song to help deal with frustration or something along those lines. It's a really honest song I feel.
I honestly think this song is not about love,it's about abuse.
First of all,Jared leaves their music open to interpretation.
So the abuse I think this song is about could be:
Someone abusing someone else (physical, verbal, somone trying to change someone else)
OR
Self inflicted abuse - such as drugs, alcohol, or some other self-destructive/masochistic tendancies (masochist = a person who tends to put themself in a situation that causes them personal pain or suffering; deriving pleasure from causing one’s own suffering).
"No matter how many times that you told me you wanted to leave"
- An abused/masochistic person often continues to take abuse or inflict the abuse upon themself. A person who gets beat or who has self-destructive tendencies, will keep saying they are going to leave their abuser or they're going to change - and even though it is destroying them, they stay where they are.
"No matter how many breaths that you took, you still couldn't breathe"
- This person feels trapped and when one feels trapped they tend to panic
I've seen alot of people talking about the video being about religion, I just wanted to say I think there's more to it than that. Religion really only occupies a small portion of the lyrics, and even then could be taken in a different context. Usually a video isn't a portal into the song's meaning as much as it's an advertisement that makes the lyrics seem easier to grasp so that audiences will be pulled into the music more. It's my belief the lyrics are talking about the cycle of death and destruction that consumes the world.
Right off the bat in the first stanza he's calling out all the people who harm others one way or another for profit, asking them that if they really wanted to stop, then why do they continue to perpetrate these crimes?
The chorus is a taunt to the ideology that sometimes it's okay to kill others and the results of that ideology around the world. The hurricane is the cycle of death and destruction as it forces those of us afraid of it's devastating path to hide and wait for the storm to leave us, but it never does.
The 2nd stanza talks about those who are willing to step out of hiding and try to stop the problem. How the cycle kills them over and over metaphorically, but they continue to push through the storm. The cycle has angered those who fight it to their breaking point, so muchso that they can't help but question how any higher power could possibly allow this to happen, and throwing that in the face of those fueling the storm by showing them that it is possible to stand against the winds.
The questing that follows are the replies to the witch hunt that follows when people stand against the cycle. Most famous men who try to lead the world out of the cycle end up dead one way or the other, MLK jr or John Lennon. Jared is asking if he will be killed quickly or slowly for his protest.
The last unique stanza talks about hope. The hope all those before us had that their defiance would change the world, and how their actions fell short in the end. Jared is saying he isn't going to hope, because hope will fail him.
