☝️ Key Points
- The song is about the painful feeling of loss and how to deal with it.
- It addresses the irrevocable loss of a loved one and the inability to process it.
- The singer uses songwriting as a way to express his feelings and cope with the suffering.
- Immediately after the loss, the emotion of shock and confusion is present.
- Despite constantly missing, there is a depiction of a development towards a kind of acceptance of the loss.
Interpretation
The song 'Still' by
Jupiter Jones is about loss, grief, and dealing with these emotions. It seems that the singer is talking about the loss of a loved one, possibly through death or separation.
The lines 'So still, that everyone of us knew, That this is forever, Forever and a lifetime' and 'So still and so lost, you went away' convey the feeling of irrevocable loss. The person is gone and will not return.
The chorus 'I've heard so much and yet it never reaches me, That's the reason why I can't sleep at night, Even if I write a thousand songs about missing, That doesn't mean I understand, Why this feeling remains forever' addresses the difficulty of processing the loss. It is evident that the singer cannot sleep and tries to process their feelings through writing songs, but it seems as if they cannot fully understand or accept the feeling of missing.
In the lines 'So loud, the hours after impact when it was, All about capturing and understanding and it was, So loud, that everything we thought brought us nothing but emptiness' the shock and confusion immediately after the loss is expressed.
The last verse 'So still, although I miss you every day, And wherever you are right now, You show me that silence has become your friend' conveys a sense of acceptance. Although the singer still misses the person, they have learned to live with the silence that their loss has left behind.