Bigger Than the Whole Sky

Grief for something that never had a chance to exist, widely interpreted as being about pregnancy loss. The sky as a scale metaphor: what was lost is too vast to measure. The absence is bigger than any frame the speaker can put around it.

“Every single thing to come has turned into ashes”

Not the past but the future is what has burned: everything still to come, every unlived thing, reduced to ash before it could arrive. Ashes here name a grief for what will now never exist, the song's central loss made physical.

“'Cause it's all over now, all out to sea”

Sea as the place a thing goes when it's gone. The ocean's vastness figures grief as something already past the horizon, not lost, but unreachable. Sea rather than river because the loss must be too far to follow.