Heavy Metal Can be Quite Beautiful

If you don't think heavy metal has a sensitive side to it, think again. Killswitch Engage has a beautifully written song, in terms of lyrics at the least, called "Rose of Sharyn." The song is about someone who died and the person is reflecting on the lost one. Here are the lyrics:

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?

What would I give to behold.
The smile the face of love,
You never left me,
The rising sun
Will always speak your name.

Numb, i'm broken
Here i stand alone.
Wondering the words,
The last words i said to you
It won't be long
We'll meet again...

What would i give, to behold
The smile, the face of love?
You never left me 
The rising sun
Will always speak your name

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.

I mourn for those who never knew you
I mourn for those who never knew you

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.

It won't be long, we'll meet again...
It won't be long, we'll meet again...
It won't be long, we'll meet again...
It won't be long, we'll meet again...

I think this song is profound. I don't know the spiritual condition of the writer of the song nor the band members of Killswitch Engage, but I can say that for Christians this song speaks much truth. The song praises the lost one for being a wonderful person, one that everyone else should get to know. So the song is of loving memory towards the one who has died.

It is my hope that when I die my family and friends will be able to think of me along these same lines. I hope that their memory of me will be a good one. I hope that they will think of me as someone worth getting to know. And, for my family and friends who are Christians, I hope that they will remember death is not the end and I will not be lost to the earth, for we will see each other again in heaven.