Hurricane Interpretation Part 1

I think “Hurricane” is a song about the pain caused by a love that has to die, because it is wrong. “Hurricane” is a word used to express the intensity of the feelings and the turmoil of a lost love …

No matter how many times that you told me you wanted to leave
No matter how many breaths that you took you still couldn't breathe
No matter how many nights that you'd lie wide awake to the sound of the poison rain

Although it seems as if referring to another person, I think Jared really reaches feelings inside of him by wanting to leave, not being able to breath and lying awake listening to the sound of the poison rain. “Poison rain” I think symbolises hatred, but also I think that he is expressing feelings of fear by “wanted to leave” and death anxiety by “couldn’t breath”. Fear is insinuated by death anxiety.

Where did you go
Where did you go
Where did you go

Now I think he is really referring to another person, who has rejected him and maybe explains why he is feeling the way he has already described. He is in pain, because he has been abandoned, feeling angry, bitter and fearful and anxious that his life is over.

Heart beat, a heart beat, I need a... Heart beat, a heart beat...

He needs a heartbeat, in order to start breathing again. I think we could assume that the other can provide it to him.

As days go by
The night's on fire

As the days go by without the person who left him, his feelings, awaking during the night, are getting him on fire.

Tell me would you kill to save a life
Tell me would you kill to prove you're right

He asks himself, by referring the question to someone in his shoes I think, if he would kill to save himself from the fire inside, on one hand, but also in order to prove that he is right in desiring the other and possibly that the abandonment shouldn’t have taken place.

Crash crash Burn let it all burn
This hurricane's chasing us all underground

Then he wants to crash everything, to burn down everything, including himself, because his feelings are growing into a very destructive hurricane.

No matter how many deaths that I die I will never forget
No matter how many lives that I live I will never regret
There is a fire inside of this heart and a riot about to explode into flames

He is realising that death will not make him forget, that’s how strong his feelings for the other person are, but also that he will never regret them. By this he means that the desire is still there, it is the fire in his heart, which is about to start a riot.

Where is your God
Where is your God
Where is your God

And then I think he begs for the mercy of God to spare him from all his pain, insinuating possibly that he is angry because God does not seem to be around.

Do you really want
Do you really want me
Do you really want me dead or alive
To torture for my sins

He is asking the object of his desire about what she wants: starting by asking if she desires at all, then if she desires him, letting us/himself think that the desire would be for love, but finally reveals that he feels the desire of the other (to reject him) as a torture for his sins. I think that the sins would be his desire for the other, maybe a forbidden other. “Dead or alive”, I think he means that either way, it’s going to be a torture for him not having the person.

Do you really want
Do you really want me
Do you really want me dead or alive
To live a lie

Again here he is asking the other about her desire. He feels that dead or alive, he is going to live a lie, without her and that this is because of her.

The promises we made were not enough (Never play the game again) The prayers that we had prayed were like a drug (Never gonna help me here) The secrets that we sow we’ll never know (Never sing a song a second time)

Promises were not enough to keep them together, nor prayers, which only seems to have been just like a medicine for the pain. So, he is not going to love again.

The love we had The love we had (Never giving in again, never giving in again)

Finally he speaks about the love the two of them shared once… (he is not going to love again …)

We had to let it go

But they had to let go …

crash, crash, burn, let it all burn, if sorry can't fix the things i so long to cry

Again he wants to crash everything, to burn down everything, because feeling sorry can’t fix the lost love for which he longs to cry.

You say you wrong, you wrong, I'm right, I'm right, you're wrong, we fight

The other person says that their love is wrong, but he thinks that it is right and not wrong and so they fight

Ok, I'm running from the light, running from the day to night
Oh, the quiet silence defines our misery
The riot inside keeps trying to visit me

And so things get dark for him into the night, in a silence between them, their misery, but even if there’s silence, the riot of feelings is always around at risk to reveal itself.

No matter how we try, it's too much history
Too many bad notes playing in our symphony

I think here the efforts are referring to efforts to be apart, but their history is a lot to forget and move on. On the other hand, they can’t be together either, because together they make a bad symphony.

So let it breathe, let it fly, let it go
Let it fall, let it crash, burn slow

He knows that he has to let go, he wishes I think to make it go away, by falling, crashing, burning slow …

And then you call upon God
You call upon God

Finally he is turning to God, because I think at this point nothing is left for him, but also we might wonder if he is turning to God, because of remorse for having the feelings he had. Anyway, he has said he is not going to love again …

It would be very interesting to add features for the interpretation of the song from the video and will follow.

K.V.