There wasn't much I used to need
A smile would blow a summer breeze through my heart
Now my mistakes are haunting me
Like winter came and put a freeze on my heart

I've lost the power to understand
What it takes to be a man with my heart
I saw you wanted this to end
You tried your best to be a friend to my heart

But I'm leaving this worry town
Please no grieving, my love, understand?

Whenever I was feeling wrong
I used to go and write a song from my heart
But now I feel I've lost my spark
No more glowing in the dark for my heart

So I'm leaving this worry town
Please no grieving, my love, understand?

Understand?
Understand?
Understand?
Understand?

Understand? (Can't you see I'm sick of fighting?)
Understand? (Can't you tell I've lost my way?)
Understand? (Look at me theirs no denying)
Understand? (I wont last another day)

So I'm leaving this worry town
Please no grieving, my love, understand?

Then I'm leaving this worry town
Please no grieving, my love, understand?

All my dreaming torn in pieces
All my dreaming torn in pieces
All my dreaming torn in pieces
All my dreaming torn in pieces now


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    General Comment

    In my opinion issues that occurred before the relationship are dragging him down and he not only knows it's ending the relationship, but he knows she/he knows. It's a kind of "I really wanted this to work, but we both know why it won't."

    silas1980on February 15, 2014   Link
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    My Interpretation

    In the first verse, the protagonist is stating what happened to him although he leaves some mystery for the listener because we don't know what was the turning point that left him in this big dilemma he's in now. He used to feel love and his partner made him smile, but something happened that made him lose all faith in love. He's disillusioned now and he's lost his faith entirely.

    He's stuck in an all is lost moment and nothing seems to be meaningful anymore ('But now I feel I've lost my spark'). He just wants to let it all end ('So I'm leaving this worry town') because that incident that happened to him is draining the life out of him '(I won't last another day)'. This song could either be about depression and understood like a suicide note or the protagonist is saving himself by getting out of a place that's not good for him.

    But the song ends with the protagonist saying 'All my dreaming torn in pieces' which refers back to having no hope whatsoever left. It's a very tragic and devastating song because you would have wanted him to regain some strength, some hope, a spark.

    StoriesinSongs.comon March 07, 2020   Link
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    General Comment

    This remind me so at him... Like it was written by him. I wish I could understand him better, after all. Or that he understands me. I wish I could get over freezing in his heart, his selfish ways. He lost his power to understand, his spark. I wish I could forgive his mistakes. I wish I could understand his leaving.. I wish I stopped grieving.... my love. But, I tried my best.. to be a friend to your heart.

    soulmatesndon February 11, 2014   Link
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    General Comment

    To me, this song is about the narrator having depression and how this affects someone very close to him. Despite their best attempts to help him, he ends up killing himself because he can't take life with this illness anymore, making this song a suicide note to them.

    The first two and the fourth verses could be about how his life has become since he became depressed and what that does to him. The person close to him wants him to get better and tries to support him. But with things like 'Look at me, there's no denying' he's trying to tell them that it won't get better.

    'Leaving this worry town' to me means that he ended the miserable life he was living. Lines like 'Please no grieving, my love, understand?' could mean that he doesn't want them to feel guilty or sad, because he doesn't blame them for what he did to himself in the end. Maybe he even feels grateful for what they tried to do, but it didn't work for him anymore.

    fromatozon October 07, 2014   Link
  • 0
    My Interpretation

    I have a strong opinion that this song is about depression. He compares how it used to be to how "winter came and put a freeze on my heart". The guy is in a bad emotional situation that affects his loved one also. He feels the need to get away from it all - "i'm leaving this weary town" and start somewhere new because in the current situation he feels like he can't last another day - "understand? (I wont last another day)". He begs his significant other to understand what he is going through and the fact that he needs to leave. He begs her to be at peace.

    and123on November 01, 2014   Link
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    General Comment

    The overall vibe I get hearing the song and watching the video, is one of the past being better than the present. In the past it did not require much to feel good, unlike now in the present, the protagonist cannot find what is required to feel good like they once did. I sense depression. Someone growing older and focusing on the past. Maybe they are at a crossroads in their life, and somewhat lost. Is the town an actual physical place they wish to escape, or is the worry town a place in the protagonists mind?

    dobadogon January 12, 2023   Link

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