All Around Me Lyrics Meaning

*I do recognize that this is not the intent the band Flyleaf when writing this song. This is just my personal thoughts when first hearing the song*

The first time I heard this song I thought of two things.
First- I thought maybe it spoke to the relationship of a drug addict and their chosen substance. The first stanza of this song could speak to the drug addict being confronted with witnessing someone using the drug or even relapsing themselves after being clean for sometime.

"My Hands are searching for you.
My arms are outstretched towards you
I feel you on my fingertips.
My tounge dances behind my lips...For you.
This fire runs through my being
Burning, I'm not used to seeing you

The chorus as well as the bridge could be taken as as an addict being high.

"I'm Alive
I'm Alive

I can feel you all around me.
Thickening the air I'm breathing
Holding onto what I'm feeling.
Savoring this heart that's healing."

The second stanza just reaffirmed my thoughts about it being about drug addiction.

"My hands float up above me,
And you wisper you love me.
And I begin to fade into our secret place.
The music makes me sway
The Angels singing say we are alone with you.
I am alone and they are too, with you."

The person is describing what it feels like to be high. The sensations of it.

The last stanza of the song could speak to the addicts pain after coming down from there high as well as feeling ashamed and devestated that they have relapsed.It could also speak to the addict really seeing the drug abuse and all that it's done.

"And so I cry.
The light is white.
And I see you."

The mournful chorus/bridge that follows after this stanza speaks to the addict coming down from their high and feeling the full impact and discomfort that comes with this.

"I'm Alive
I'm Alive
I'm Alive....

*Chorus*

"Take my hand
I give it to you
Now you own me
All I am
You said you would never leave me
I believed you
I believe"

This speaks to the addict being angry with the drug. Feeling as if it has betrayed them for making them feel so terrible after they have come down as well as for making it the only thing they care about any longer.