| Brandi Carlile – That Year Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"I must have been sleeping, I must have been drinking, I haven't been dreaming about you for years. there was a sharp Turn and a sunburn I was too cool for high school that year." To me this says Brandi (assuming this she's supposed to be the 'I') spent her time in oblivion, that she didn't begin to notice the warning signs about her friend. she must have begun to remember about her friend again, that she's tried her best to forget her friend and hasn't dreamt about him/her in so long every since the suicide. She remembers that huge turn that happened in her high school year and that pain like a sunburn that is inflicted on her that year. "Must have have been new years. no one invited you, Took things too far but I missed you and your antics. You were lonesome and blue-eyed and so special to us." there must have been some kind of new years party--maybe one of those high school big parties where everyone is invited, yet her friend wasn't invited. her friend took things to far, meaning that's when her friend committed suicide. 'i missed you and your antics' make me think of her friend before the friend began to feel depressed, before that year, how her friend must have been one of those pranksters people, something like that. the next line is self explanatory, her friend was lonesome seeing as Brandi began with her new crew in all the high school parties. "You could have taken a long break Instead of a long drop from a high place. Ten years I never spoke your name. Now it feels good to say it. your my friend again." Her friend should have just stopped and thought, not been impulsive. should have just taken a break and take a breath and relax, instead of jumping off to his/her death from a high place (reading it literally) or maybe even her friend began with drugs and such things that dropped her friend in life, ruining his/her life. for ten years brandi felt this anger towards her friend for having done this, to having hurt her so badly by it. and now at last, she has forgiven her friend. "Daddy Said he forgave you, I said I hated you, You was the bigger man, I was sixteen. All the innocence it took well I guess You finally made the year book. That year. That year." Her dad even forgave her friend...or from this line it could've even been a relative of hers. A brother/sister/cousin/etc. but still she hated her friend for it. her friend was the bigger man, she was just a 16 year old. in the next line, i get the impression that her friend was never that cool kid, or the kid who no one knew about. that year when her friend finally died, her friend finally made the yearbook, as in finally a mention of that friend in it. you know how yearbooks have the best couple and such? those kind of things, her friend was excluded in, and now that her friend made the decision to commit suicide they actually mentioned them for once. "You should have taken a long break instead of a long drop, Instead of a leap of faith, ten years I never spoke your name. Now it feels good to say that your my friend again. Your my friend again." 'instead of a leap of faith' still confuses me. i'd say that this might have to do religion? once you killed yourself off, you'd be in heaven and finally in peace. her friend hoped for that peace in heaven at last, but it was just a leap of faith. "I was angry, I was a baptist, I was a daughter, I was wrong." i was angry, that's pretty self explanatory, she was angry at her friend for a long time for what he/she did. i was a baptist, i don't know much of that religion, but they might be against suicide/whatever her friend did, hence influencing how she thought it was horrible. i was a daughter, not sure, the line about her dad might have to do with it, she didn't agree with him to forgive her friend. i was wrong, all her thoughts were wrong. and the 'was' in it all means...well...she was, she's changed and loves her friend again. |
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