Shine your Light

This month, I've picked a song called Shine your Light, sung by Robbie Robertson. When I first heard this song, I cried like a baby. This song is featured in the movie Ladder 49. Which is a movie about a firefighter, ( Jack Morrison played by Joaquin Phoenix ) who becomes a veteran at a Baltimore Fire Department. During this movie, his department gets called into a very dangerous blaze that's burning a 20 storey building. As he goes into the building, he finds himself trapped after falling through a floor, and loses track of where he is in the building. While he's trapped, he manages to talk to his captain ( Mike Kenndey played by John Travolta) on the walkie talkie. At some times, due to the smoke inhalations, he falls in and out of consciousness. He starts to have hallucinations about his past life, and his wife his son, and his first fires, which manages to keep him alive. When they finally get to where he is, they had to stop because of the debris, and metal they have to go through to rescue him. The building was burning down, and was on the verge of collapsing. Jack then tells his captain to pull out the other firefighters before he endangers their lives too. Jack Morrison then dies, and when they start his funeral ceremony, the song starts to play, as the scene of his body is being carried out onto the firetruck, with his band of brothers, wife, son, and friends in tow. The lyrics to this song is so beautifully written. The song is about a person passing away, and it's written as if you're talking to that person. You're telling them to look down on you, and help you, and guide you through everything (Shine your light). You're also realizing that since that person's passed, it can happen to anyone, and also to you. Don't wanna be a hero, just an everyday man, trying to do the job the very best he can, but now it's like living on borrowed time. This lyric is the most meaningful to me. To my opinion, it explains you're trying to live your life as best you can, and savour each moment, and memory, yet you never know when it can all end. This lyric also represents a small portion as to why I got my tattoo. It's a script, that says Live, surrounded by cherry blossoms and vines, which are in color. It means I try to go through each day as positive as I can, and live up to my tattoo. Yet there are times where it's okay to be grieving, or mourning, which is the reason of the vines. It also represents how easily life can be taken away from you at anytime, like Angela St-Denis' family. She was so young, yet she was so happy with what she did, and was always involved in almost anything she could do. To me, this song represents a loss of a loved one, and asking them to guide you through, and being there with you emotionally even though they are gone. They're not gone, they're just away.