Guiding Light lyrics

If anyone has read 1984 will know that guiding light is probably the part where winston talks about his ex-wife and that he couldn't be at her side and guiding light is the love that we all hold in our hearts. Remember that the resistance is dedicated / based on 1984

Song to break up with my boyfriend, and make sure he knows it's not his fault... Completely

I think it implies each one of us starts out on this planet all innocent and not knowing why we're here and we're curious about everything, but we're subject to the survival instinct. This makes us vulnerable to a lot of stuff around us, which kind of kills our childlike wonder and develops a distance between each other and the universe itself, but that eternal spark has always been there and will triumph in the end although for now it's trapped. Meanwhile, the universe is allowing us experiences (hurt, trauma, loss, devastation) leading to confusion which leaves us feeling rudderless but which, once we're through to the other side, also help transform us into beings who can un-trap that sunshine in our hearts, especially if we end up feeling able to 'still reach for' the source of life, even when all seems lost.

I think he's stalking about taking away someone's innocence, and that when he took that innocence away, the guiding light inside her was lost, so now he's sorry and cold, and crushed and confused.

It makes me think about a dictator who realizes he became evil. He admits power made everyting else (dreams, kindness, love) disappear. He's a victim of losing ideals.

It's about losing the one you love and then doing anything in your power to replace that love at the cost of other people's hearts. Both the speaker and the subject go through this process and it shows that the speaker is unwilling to let go of what he once had, as claire0904 said, "the beginning.. "

To me when i first heard this song i depressed and thinking about suicide... When i heard this song i fell in love with matthew bellamy because i felt this song pulled my spirits up and he was my guiding light. I have since become obsessed with muse's beautiful music and i am still drawn to tears when i hear this song in remembrance of the moment matthew bellamy saved my life...

I think we should try to go beyond the context. This song is trying to imply something! All their songs tells us something else aside from the lyrics itself.



Be sensitive! The muse plus resistance!?

I feel it's a reflection of a deep love shared by two people that started out passionately, pure... A connection that no words can perhaps describe at the time. The two became "one"... The warmth, comfort... Pure..

Then things, for what ever reason fell apart and that connection was lost.

But for one person that love is not something to be easily forgotten! That's why they are strangers and you can't feel them anymore!

The "light that was guiding" is the love has been taken away. The person is confused and crushed (does not understand why it's been taken away from them and why the other person has "changed" probably suddenly)

Love by numbers, i feel he is saying the love shown, in reflection, seems as though the other person was "painting by" numbers... You are guided and instructed on how to paint!! Therefore, the love was "guided" and not pure.

But this person can't forget... The beginning... What they thought was so true.

But yet they are so hurt by the fact the other was far from everything they believed in.

Yet they still crave the beginning...

I think its about always having someone there for you through the bad times and then they are gone and you have no "guiding light" to show you the way. And the song is based on the time of having no one.