The Albatross.

I’ve listened to this song about 15 times, but every time I understood new things about it. It’s not only beautiful, but also moving, touching. It tells about a relationship between two people who don’t love in the same way. In fact the author of the song loves unconditionally without receiving the same feelings while the one he loves, the  protagonist of the song’s story, hides herself behind her fears because she can’t show what she feels in her soul. Anyway the man gives himself to his lover even if he doesn’t have any rewards, because this is the real meaning of love. Love, the only thing that urges a person to do everything for someone. Love, the only feeling that makes us feel alive. Having the strength to love a person is rare, difficult, tiring but extraordinarily wonderful and pleasant. The author says that love marks not only our heart, but also our body. He tries to fly in order to live and feel this love on his skin. Even though he’ll have the marks of this delusion and this strong love, he wants to spend life feeling this happiness. I think that the most important message of the song consists in understanding that pain is bearable and sometimes beautiful just when we love, because love is the single reason to continue fighting and living.