Iridescent: Brightness amidst chaos

I've been having Last Song Syndromes lately. My most recent ones would be that of Linkin Park's "Waiting for the End". I usually have a bad memory when it comes to song lyrics, I only get to know them by heart if I need or have to, other than that, I mumble some random mambo-jumbo lyrics just to sound like it.  So I looked for the lyrics of the song over google and while reading through it, my eye shifted towards the left pane of the screen and a certain song title from their album " A Thousand Suns" caught my attention.

WORD FOR THE DAY: Iridescent.

I looked for it's meaning and this is what I got:

Iridescent [ˌɪrɪˈdɛsənt]
adj.

1. Producing a display of lustrous, rainbowlike colors: an iridescent oil slick; iridescent plumage.

2. Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful in effect or appearance: "The prelude was as iridescent as a prism in a morning room" (Carson McCullers).

also

iridescent - varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; "changeable taffeta"; "chatoyant (or shot) silk"; "a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent"

So sharing with you right now is the lyrics from the song "Iridescent" by Linkin Park:


 When you were standing in the wake of devastation


When you were waiting on the edge of the unknown

With the cataclysm raining down

Your insides crying, "Save me now"

You were there, impossibly alone.



Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?

You build up hope, but failures all you've known.

Remember all the sadness and frustration

And let it go.

Let it go.



And in a burst of light that blinded every angel

As if the sky had blown the heavens into stars

You felt the gravity of tempered grace

Falling into empty space

With no one there to catch you in their arms.



Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?

You build up hope, but failures all you've known.

Remember all the sadness and frustration

And let it go.

Let it go.



(Instrumental Break)



Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?

You build up hope, but failures all you've known.

Remember all the sadness and frustration

And let it go.

Let it go.



Let it go.

Let it go.

Let it go.

Let it go.



Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?

You build up hope, but failures all you've known.

Remember all the sadness and frustration

And let it go.

Let it go.

 
***My take on the lyrics?

Beautiful...but it's a little redundant since the words were repeated over and over, but maybe this is their way of letting the words and its meaning burrow inside our brain to keep us reminded that  no matter how deep the shit we're in... in whatever sadness or frustration we're experiencing...when we are at the point of breaking down and losing our sanity due to some chaotic situation ..there's no better way but to learn to move on and let go. It might not be easy, it may also not be that hard because there's always a bright side in everything . Things vary in color when seen in different lights or from different angles. Therefore, misfortunes can turn to great fortunes only if we change our position and look at them at a different point of view... Iridescent. :D