Countin' on a Miracle

"If I'm gonna live, I'll lift my life, darlin' to you."

This song has a deep meaning to me after my best friend died suddenly from a heart attack at 31 last year. (No drugs, in case anyone was wondering, most likely congenital.)

Every bit of me ached and begged for it not to be true when I found out, and no amount of wishing or praying could change it. For a long time, I was very depressed - she was my "Bobby Jean" - and I almost chose to follow her where she went. After a while, though, I realized that there was a legacy she'd left behind, and I had a duty to step up and take her place.

I give my life over to fulfill some of the work she left behind, and to accomplish the things we talked about. It gives me a sense of purpose that I lacked after she was gone.

This songs about being stuck, "fairytale so tragic " and being unable to escape, "no prince to break the spell". The chance has "Forever come and gone", and now he's "countin' on a miracle". We don't know what in particular he is talking about, the songs significance relies on the idividual to interpret its deeper meaning and relevence.

For me, i haven't pinpointed its relevence to me, but lines such as "There ain't no storybook story" and "There's no never-ending song" remind me of how things may not be the way i want them to be, but wht i have cannot go on forever.

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I love the acoustic version of this song from the "Essential Springsteen" compilation

my idea is that it talks about someone needing help, possibly divine, to accomplish something.

I think this song is written from the perspective of someone who lost a loved one, perhaps in the World Trade Center. Not knowing whether or not they're alive and they're praying for intervention of some kind. And then they find out that they're dead ... "There's no fairy tale ending.." and "Sleeping Beauty awakes from her dream with a kiss from her lovers lips" well this woman doesn't that because the loved one died. And all that remains are memories.

i have the same meaning NGwarfare. It's about losing a loved one, and first don't believe she is really gone. I love especially the last lines where he on her funeral takes farewell of his love with this lines: Your heaven's here in my heart Our love's this dust beneath my feet Just this dust beneath my feet If I'm gonna live I'll lift my life Darlin' to you

In dire times millions of people call out to their God for a miracle, but are seldom given the relief they pray for. Look at Afghanistan, OH My God! Counting on a Miracle is a last chance option, not plan A or B. Sometimes it's all you can do, God help us! But what a great song, that too often applies to us all. Help out where you can, and Keep on Counting!