Songfacts®:

• Lead singer Christian Lindskog: "This song was an attempt to tie together what I saw in South Africa, where young men and women are dying of AIDS and other diseases and what we have seen in Europe and America, where young men and women are also dying but from a different cause - depression and a loss of hope. The fight for life is with different enemies. This was based on two different people: Yamkela, a young boy we met in South Africa and a friend in the States. One fighting a battle with AIDS and the other fighting depression. In both continents people are dying unnecessarily young. When we wrote this there was a real fight for both their lives. But as I write this today both of them are doing much better and have been able to see that even in these desperate situations there is hope for life."
• Guitarist Simon Grenehed: "When we first started talking about making a new record again after About A Burning Fire, we had a few things in mind. First of all, we again wanted to bring more character to each instrument without letting the songwriting suffer. We've never wanted to experiment with music just for the cause of being difficult. It's rather an ongoing idea of continuing to develop into something new musically. This time around was no different. The first couple of rehearsals was a way of feeling each other out again musically. Trying to figure out where we all were going. It took a while before we found something that we felt strongly about." >>>

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  Tim - PGH, PA, for above 2