Killswitch Engage: Rose of Sharyn Meaning
Song Released: 2004
Rose of Sharyn Lyrics
Here I stand alone,
Wondering what were
The last words I said to you
Hoping, praying that I'll find a way
To turn back time,
Can I turn back time?
What would I give to behold.
The smile the face of love,
You never left...
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anonymous Oct 25th 2011, 16:26 report
my opinion is there isn't a hint of Jesus Christ in the lyrics, and even the fact that the title refers to him is questionable... however, there's no question that the song is about the persona losing someone he loved, or the persona losing his own life over someone he loved, i.e. suicide... and there is probably a few clues in the video too, where the band plays in a setting that is surrounded by rather gnarled, blackened trees, that later bleed through the carvings on them... seems to have a similarity to the trees is the middle ring of the seventh circle of hell in dante's Inferno (the poem), where souls who die by their own hands anre transformed into such bleeding trees... a song hinting at possible feelings of suicide after a terible loss perhaps?... i mean, music is art after all...just an opinion, and after all said and done it's just an awesome song, nuff' said...
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anonymous May 13th 2011, 18:13 report
When he says "I mourn for those who never knew you" he is referring to those who dont know Jesus Christ and their enevitability of going to hell for it.So he is weeping over lost souls.
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anonymous Apr 27th 2011, 23:53 report
Ok. You people are all fucking ratards!!! the song is about his high-school sweet heart whom died in a car wreck. I'm personaly friends wit howie. I was with him when he was trying to think of the name for this song. People are fucking dumb asses
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anonymous Jul 16th 2010, 13:20 report
As I watch this video and look at everyone's interpretation I would believe that it is a double meaning song.. If you watch the video It clearly interprets thorns and blood onto a flower which has been for several centuries been depicted in portraits and displays of Yeshua Homishia (Jesus). At the same time as I listen to the lyrics, there is a couple parts that stick out that aren't about Yeshua, thus the thesis of it also being about a lost love... When people deal with a lost love, friend, or family and they do have a slight background with Christianity, the two are hand in hand to some. People look to Yeshua for comfort... I believe that is what this song is about
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anonymous Feb 4th 2010, 14:53 report
So, I had honestly heard, that one of the band members had lost a child, and that this song was about her. Her name was Sharyn......Makes sense to me in my mind because the love for a parent is one thing, but the love for ones child is on a different planet.
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anonymous Nov 21st 2009, 17:09 report
One of the people above were right about Jesus Christ being known as the "Rose of Sharyn". This is not just some theory. I feel that this song does in fact have a double meaning. It could be a song about wanting to be with your loving savior, or it could also be a song of mourning the loss of a loved one. Either way, the song will still make perfect sense. For those who are against anything having any religious connotations, you must get used to the fact that; a)Songs like this very well have a spiritual background, and b)Some people have faith in things we cannot understand or know fully. All we can hope is that (assuming you could entertain the thought of there being a God) when we meet Yahweh Elohim face to face, that he will make everything clear to us and give us the answers we have all been searching for.
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anonymous Sep 20th 2009, 07:53 report
I don't know about you but I almost cry every time i listen to this song. There are more good songs like this. Like "This is absolution", "when darkness falls", "last serenade",...
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anonymous Aug 26th 2008, 02:31 report
What is it with people making everything about a religion. my first thought wasn't that they made a song for Jesus Christ. It's about losing a love one. not about Christ but about a loved on who has passed away.
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kselover Jul 13th 2008, 05:28 report
It is stated in a couple of websites that this song is a dedication to Howard's mom who passed away. Sharyn must be her name.
"Numb and broken,
Here I stand alone,
Wondering what were
The last words I said to you
Hoping, praying that I'll find a way
To turn back time,
Can I turn back time?"
Could be he could not live without her love. Hoped to turn back time; wishing he could have more moments with her.
"It won't be long, we'll meet again
Your memory is never passing
It won't be long, we'll meet again
My love for you is everlasting."
Simply means he knows he'll meet her again somewhere, sometime.
"I mourn for those who never knew you
I mourn for those who never knew you"
For a moment I thought it was about Jesus Christ but when I thought about it. He could be referring to those who didn't knew his mom and he feels sad for it coz she's such a great person.
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my_revolution1 Dec 4th 2007, 15:54 report
Lol...First off it really was about his friends mother who passed away.. you can read it or hear it on an interview...but the play on words with ROSE OF SHARYN, that's also another name for man upstairs... So he in return made it for himself and her and his friend...like the father son and holy ghost..lol I really don't know what the song is about except for his friends mother and noone other than Howard Jones will
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anonymous Sep 2nd 2007, 14:41 report
This song is obviously about Jesus Christ, he was referred to several times in the Bible as the Rose of Sharon... (Sharon is a plain - it is one of the largest valley-plains in all of Palestine. Back at the time of Solomon, it was considered a wild, fertile plain that had a lot of beautiful flowers in it. Sharon was supposed to have been known for its beauty and majesty back in those days.)Since all the members (that I know of) in KSE are Christian, this has to be the message they are sending out through the lyrics of the song :)
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anonymous Sep 2nd 2007, 01:18 report
I agree, when there is a line that says "I mourn for those, who never knew you." I think he is referring to Jesus.
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anonymous Sep 2nd 2007, 01:15 report
If you ask me I think it is talking about Jesus Christ. There is a church named the Rose of Sharyn, that is where the name comes from I think.
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