Lost In The Echo

"You were that foundation Never gonna be another one, no I followed, so taken So conditioned I could never let go Then sorrow, then sickness Then the shock when you flip it on me So hollow, so vicious So afraid I couldn't let myself see That I could never be held Back up, no, I'll hold myself Check the rep, yep you know my rail Forget the rest let them know my hell Damn, I'm back yep, my soul ain't sell, Kept respect up the vets stay there, Let the rest be to tell they tale That I was there saying"

Someone who used to be in a certain position of a company, the bottom of it making very little money. I followed a certain position or specific path and I was set to adapt to a certain position or area that I could never leave it and move on. Then nervousness and sickness and shock when the higher up's blamed it on the lower end(me), but really the customers are to blame for wanting fast food so quickly. I was so afraid of the higher ups or empty within that I couldn't view my own opinion on the cause of how something got so fu**ed up, so the upper people had no choice, but to blame me. My soul isn't for sale, I'm coming back to become myself to take on self-control. "Kept respect up, the vets stay their" that line is kind of confusing, but I believe in my own words it's about the people whom have a lot of experience in the higher ups and they've gained that respect, so they stay up top. "Let the rest be to tell they tale" is pretty much saying they will tell their stories up when they're vets(veterans) or experienced people.

"And these promises broken Deep, feeble Each word gets lost in the echo So one last lie I can see through This time I finally let you Go, go, go"

Promises broken.. maybe it's about holding onto a promise that they will pay off a home, car etc. and strive to work hard, when in reality that promise is broken. The broken promises caused violence. Each word(promise) they say keeps getting lost in the echo(when you speak something the words you speak eventually echo into the distance becoming lost). So one last lie that I can see through. Now I'm finally letting go.. perhaps it's about letting go of plans and just living in the moment. Doing as much as you can today because you might not get tomorrow.

"Test my will, test my heart Let me tell you how the odds gonna stack up Y'all go hard, I go smart How's it working out for y'all in the back, huh? I've seen that frustration Big cross, they're lost but don't know And I've come back unshaken Let down, I've lived and let go So you can let it be known I don't hold back, I hold my own I can't be mad, I can't be calm I can't sing flat, it ain't my tone I can't fall back, I came too far Hold myself up and love my scars Let the bells ring wherever they are 'Cause I was there saying"

Saying if you put a test on me and test my heart. You're going to just get hurt even further.. let me tell you how the odds are gonna stack up. "Let me tell you what's gonna happen." They go hard, but he's gonna go smart. "How's it working out for y'all in the back huh?" I've seen the negative crap that I had to go through. "Big cross, they're lost and don't know.. is saying the people who talk to 'God' or 'Jesus on the cross'. I've come back without shaking anymore(being worried about the higher people). He's been let down and lived and let go, and he doesn't hold anything back anymore he holds his self-control. I can't be mad anymore and I can't be calm. I've gone so far already in life that I can't go back to the negatives again. I'm going to love all the pain that I've been through and I'm going to love the scars(not literally, just saying he's going to love all the things he's known to not do anymore). Pretty much saying this: "I go to heaven when I know what the negatives can do to hurt me or what I fear to not do ever again." "Let the bells ring wherever they're."? I'm not quite sure what that one means..

"No, you can tell 'em all now I don't back up, I don't back down I don't fold up, and I don't bow I don't roll over, don't know how I don't care where the enemies are Can't be stopped, all I know go hard! Won't forget how I got this far And every time, saying"

Now I am telling someone that I don't back up or back down.. I keep moving forward. I don't fold up and I don't bow.. is pretty much saying I don't get cut in half or bow down to anyone anymore. "I don't roll over" I think means to not get rolled up and pushed down or pushed from one place to another. "I don't care where the enemies are.. saying he doesn't care about enemies anymore he's going to not worry about them. He's not going to be stopped by anyone anymore. "All I know is go hard is saying he's going to try his best now." He won't forget the memories anymore. Fear is what builds you up because you don't want to be caught in the "fire".

All in all.. summary: This is about, men learning to rise above the fears that catch up behind them(at least to me). You're only going to grow bigger or stronger if you let fear behind you and you move forward if fear catches up to you. It's the only way you move forward in life.