ARMY Magazine - Monthly Issues ARMY Magazine ISSUE NO.2 - DEC 2018 | Page 22

It is a moment of wanting to reach
someone on another level but
having trouble with it. It is like a
song of longing for someone that
is there but doesn’t feel all that
present. The song can be that
moment of not wanting to give it all
up because there was a point to it,
there was something good that just
got lost in time. A line of the song
says “If only I could rewind time
and start over/You cry between
the shadow and light” which
references the wanting to go back
to how things were when they
were good or in the “light”, but also
knowing in a sense that no matter
how much you want to hold on
you can’t turn back time from the
darker place you find yourself in.
It falls in line with the previous
songs they placed in the album
alongside it.
After this we have almost like
a closing to the cycle, a way of
leaving the circle path and actually
moving forward, even if it feels
painful. “Crystal Snow” and “Spring
Day” go in hand in hand. Not only
being beautiful to listen to, but
both showing a clearer path even
if it that path hurts a little. “Crystal
Snow” is an appreciation of the
positives love gives. What love can
make someone feel in the good
times, almost like a longing to
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remember and have those good
times again. Wishing for them to
come back. “Spring Day” is also
a song of longing, longing for
someone that was there but no
longer, is while also leaving room
for hope to meet again. They are
both a moment of reflection and
memories that you want to hold
on to, but also moments where you
find that it might be better to let go
even if for a moment.
Very obviously this moves on to
the next song “Let Go” which is
one that is pretty straightforward.
The song describes a moment of
moving on and letting go, while
also remembering the past.
It depicts the process it takes, on
many levels, to move on. Moving
on and letting go is necessary but
that doesn’t mean it’s painless.
Then there is “Outro: Crack” which
has the lyrics of “Let Go” in it.
The outro might be named “Crack”
because there was a crack in the
cycle, a realization that was being
ignored but could no longer
stay hidden.
And at the end of the path of
loving to letting go lays Love
Yourself: Tear which is a moment
of awareness that they were at a
loss of themselves. They didn’t
know who they were because
they were caught in an idea of