Though Im not sure the song specifically states it, he sweetly listens to how she feels, and presumably gives her all the comfort she could need, to heal her and make her feel complete, as he is trying to speak of love to her (which she refuses to speak of because she has never known it) and do whatever he can to help make her whole. For all of this, and her current not-as-young-anymore and 'still searching' situation, she yearns for comfort from the artist, and even goes so far as to ask him for forgiveness that she is the way she is today from him, and even shares that she feels like she has never really been loved. Though she is older and wiser, she feels weak from having to be strong in lifes river, because she has had to struggle in the difficult stream, as 'only the strong will survive'. She says she cant even look back at her youth because she feels like she had it all wrong back then, and largely blames her parents for the mess she feels like today. The reason I think that is because 'she says' that 'time is unfair to' a woman her age and even though she has more wisdom as she is older, she has seen the vibrancy and celebrated beauty of youth 'fade' as well. Song MeaningThis is another really great, genuine song by Collective Soul that I think is generally about the artist empathetic-ally listening and understanding a woman in his life describing her experience of some of the difficulties to grow older as a female, and then I believe it is implied that he gives her the comfort and forgiveness that she is asking from him for her current self and situation.

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