it's been so long since you've been here, and i'm dying is there something you would like to say? just drop the present on the shelf, by the flowers and make the feeling go away looking back i can't recall, who was listening when i used to walk the streets at night like a bird that used to sing, i was flying i was happy all the time, and it's hard to look back better days and different ways i can't explain another song to sing it all was simplified don't know what it's about, what have i learned to live without? it takes a day to live a life i can't believe the way the world is so different look what the lines in my face have made living in my bed i'm right next to the road the one that goes the other way, takes me to a different place did you know, that i was just as young as you i had a job, a home, a family, and a car did you say that yesterday or just right now? you'll never know the feeling of my bleeding heart did you say that yesterday or just right now? you'll never know the feeling of my bleeding heart


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    it seems like the person who came to see him is his old love..

    todieforon March 28, 2003   Link
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    This song is soo good. If your looking for some nice relaxing music from a punk band here it is!

    CcPunk82on May 01, 2002   Link
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    i think the songs aobut caring about somebody only to hear them say something mean to you, then the after effects of the pain and stuff like that. no use for a name rules!

    Nimbus the Kittenon June 02, 2002   Link
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    This song touches me in more than a million ways possible. I forgot how much I love NUFAN's lyrics.

    XunspokenlullabyXon June 13, 2002   Link
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    Sounds like somebody in a hospital. Who is sad...Maybe in room 19....And it maight be an old man....

    EZ3on June 19, 2002   Link
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    I think It's a girl that has broken it off with him. He use to be happy all the time then this happened.

    puberton July 02, 2002   Link
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    its about someone in a hospital room 19 dying. he is recalling his life and remembering how happy he used to be and is really waiting to die

    rbfboy212on July 03, 2002   Link
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    I totally agree with rbfboy212 that its about someone who he is dying, and i think he was pretty young. "Did you know i was just as young as you" (before the disease started). He doesnt want to die, but its inevitable, he was so happy, and now he lies helplessly in his bed and watches his friends saying goodbye. I think you're totally wrong Nimbus, its not from the point of view of the visitor but from the person in bed, and i really want to say that he is not mean or anything. "I'm dying, is there something you would like to say?" I'm thinking what i would do if someone is really saying this to me, its too cruel to imagine. "Make the feeling go away", the feeling that he is dying without beeing able to see some of the things he wanted to see. He's long dead, trapped in his bed. This songs shows me what is possible with words, i mean the lyrics perfectly catch the situation, snd the music just fits. Just sad, one one the best songs possible.

    desensitizedon July 09, 2002   Link
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    This song is about a dying man. It is a great song with a lot of feeling. THe man is reminiscing about when he was young and would "walk the streets." The man is in pain because of his "bleeding heart" which can be describing the illnes, or he maay be just dying of loneliness. and his heart longs to be young again.

    fez5on September 14, 2002   Link
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    I picture this song about a person with dimensia or something like it. "did you say that yesterday or just right now" and "it takes a day to live a life" may be talking about this. kind of sad, but one of my fav nufan songs

    skyjukeboxheroon February 15, 2005   Link

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