Savior

I really really love the song "Savior" by Rise Against, to me it's him looking back on a past relationship, a girl that may have meant a lot to him but they couldn't stay together? I can't quite grasp the meaning of it, so I'd really like to know what you all thought.




It kills me not to know this but I've all but just forgotten
what the color of her eyes were and her scars or how she got them
as the telling signs of age rain down a single tear is dropping
through the valleys of an aging face that this world has forgotten

there is no reconciliation that will put me in my place
and there is no time like the present to drink these draining seconds
but seldom do these words ring true when I'm constantly failing you
like walls that we just can't break through until we disappear
so tell me now

if this ain't love then how do we get out?
because I don't know
that's when she said I don't hate you boy
I just want to save you while there's still something left to save
that's when I told her I love you girl
but I'm not the answer to the questions that you still have

but the day pressed on like crushing weights
for no man does it ever wait
like memories of dying days
that deafen us like hurricanes
bathed in flames we held the brand
uncurled the fingers in your hand
pressed into the flesh like sand
now do you understand?
so tell me now

if this ain't love then how do we get out?
because I don't know
that' s when she said I don't hate you boy
I just want to save you while there's still something left to save
that's when I told her I love you girl
but I'm not the answer to the questions that you still have

one thousand miles away
there's nothing left to say
but so much left that I don't know
we never had a choice
this world is too much noise
it takes me under
it takes me under once again

I don't hate you
I don't hate you
so tell me now
if this ain't love then how do we get out?
because I don't know

that's when she said I don't hate you boy
I just want to save you while there's still something left to save
that's when I told her I love you girl
but I'm not the answer to the questions that you still have
I don't hate you
I don't hate you, no

Sounds to me like she was never serious, but he fell in love with her anyway, and they are both looking back.

"I'm not the answer to the questions that you still have." Sounds to me like she isn't ready to settle down yet?
I don't know I'm tired, that's all I got.

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Like the song, f***ing hatehatehate the improper grammar in the opening lyrics

"It kills me not to know this but I've all but just forgotten
what the color of her eyes were and her scars or how she got them"

WAS. Color of her eyes WAS.

GAAAHHHHarghasarhgashagd.

...but yeah, great song, great band.

To me it sounds like she was looking to him for the answers in life, in the relationship, and he couldn't help her and had to let her go, and she was telling him that she didn't blame him for it- "I don't hate you". And that she was worried about him wasting his life, maybe?