How Did You Love – melodic, profound, powerful-voiced

A piano leads the listener into the beginning of How Did You Love, together with the drums. The singing is more melodic than in the songs before. Brent Smith’s voice has a strong echo here. Again, the rhythm is a crucial stylistic device, also when it comes to forming the lyrics.

In the chorus, which gets introduced by a sung piece of art, the speed rises once more. The whole time one has the feeling of hearing something electrical in the singer’s voice.

The lyrics of How Did You Love deal rather indirectly with freedom this time, but there is much about the self and individual behavior in it. The song is about what a person leaves behind when their life is over. Therefore, personal development is in the focus of the lyrics.

The words “we are the judge and jury” are instrumentally underlined in the end of the song. There is an instrumental echo which reminds of a chapel. The words implicate that everyone has to undergo a judgment of the people surrounding them in their life. Eventually, it is important how one loved, which can also be a symbol for being a good person in life. One should try to stay true to oneself because there is only one chance and one self.

Favorite line: “How we forget ourselves, lose our way from the cradle to the grave. You can’t replicate or duplicate, gotta find your own way.”

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