Ashes Remain: Song Analysis

In this world, there are people who have achieved many strengths and knowledge to push themselves to greater heights. Some of those people have achieved their strengths and knowledge without help. Soon or later those people will need to find a way to get better with the help of some people. When someone has achieved many things by themselves, there is a chance that person will struggle to ask for help and assistance. The Christian rock band Ashes Remain, has composed a song to explain the difficulties of the struggles for those who do not like to ask for help. That song is called “On My Own”, a song released in 2011 in the album What I’ve Become. This song should be acknowledged for the Nobel prize because it has the power to reach out to
This song uses two good strong examples why people would not want to go get help. Pride and doubt. Both reasons have been presented in this song as metaphors. When the speaker mentions pride, the speaker has admitted that working alone has made things worse. Pride is self-inflicting because pride can give someone the assumption that anyone can do anything. Having enough pride can build a wall around many people. Once that person realizes that seeking help is needed, the wall around people has formed into a prison, “From the prison of my own pride” (13). As soon as someone has made a prison of pride, that prison will be extremely difficult to get out of. Along with that prison of pride, one person will not only push people away, but also look down on others. This is doubt. Doubt has been presented in the song when the speaker has realized how wrong it is to do thing by yourself. When there is just as much doubt as there is pride, one person will build a cage to protect themselves from other’s weakness, “I've been stuck in a cage with my doubt” (12) With an abundance of doubt, one person will be blinded to see the potential of others that can possibly benefit themselves. Doubt will make someone ignore a part of a person if only one part is judged. When only one part of a person is judged, people will only
It is just a matter of how to say that message. The diction of certain parts of this song has shown clever ways to convey important messages. When the speaker admits that being alone is wrong, the speakers claims to be in a dark place and needs help getting out, “Come and find me in the dark now” (9) By saying the speaker is in the dark, the speaker is trying to say he is lost in his disbeliefs. The speaker is trying to call the listener to help escape. The longer one goes without help, the harder it will be to escape the darkness. As the speaker was diving deeper into a life without help, the speaker continues to resist seeking help. Later in the future, it will be easy to resist the urge to find help. This is because of all the reasons and abilities of a person that led to not wanting to find help. As someone carries many reason to not find help and can prove their thinking by showing how capable that person can be, the speaker calls those reasons and abilities “weapons”. When the speaker has given up on doing things alone, the speaker lays down those weapons, “I lay my weapons down” (22) When the speaker stops using those weapons, the speaker has stopped fighting the urge to do thing alone. To realize that and no longer wants to use those weapons, the speaker has recognized how this form of thinking became. The speaker of this poem has acknowledged that pride and doubt was a factor of becoming an isolated