This Week The Trend

And this week the trend Was to not wake up till 3pm I picked the few conscious hours that I chose to spend And slept away the rest of them

I take this verse as trying to escape your life. You choose to sleep the day away because you are either getting tired of the same old things in your life or you are sick of all the problems you have. You just want to escape from it and not have to face it.

And this week the trend Was to crash and burn and then return again To practice the life that I pretend Provides enough to get me through the weekend

This verse talks about our life. How we live our life differently in front of other people. The line "crash and burn and then return again" talks about how we tend to dramatize our life (I think). How we set ourselves up just to see something happening in our life. The line "To practice the life that I pretend" is a further dwelling on the topic. We practice the act of making drama in our life and that "Provides enough to get me through the weekend".

So I say Give me a solution And watch me run with it And then you gave You gave me a solution What have I done with it Cause I was absolutely sure I had it all figured out Way back then And now it's this minute, This hour, This day

The chorus focuses a bit on how we know the solution to our problem yet we do not do anything about it. We have asked for the solution and we already have it. Yet still, we do not do anything. The line "Cause I was absolutely sure I had it all figured out way back then" talks about how we have already got through this before. But now it's back, it's either we are too tired to face it or we simply are too busy dramatizing our life to have time to fix it. We do not know what the problem is, but the truth is, the problem is right in front of us...

And this week the trend Was to backstab every single one of my friends And leave a voicemail message trying to make amends All the while hoping things work out in the end

I have two concepts for this verse. The first one is trying to make good deeds. In the situation, I can imagine a person doing bad things to his friends but has already planned to say sorry after the trouble. He hurts people but he only does so he can say sorry. And saying sorry after a wrongdoing is considered a good deed. Maybe the "All the while hoping things work out in the end" is a reference to those deeds helping you in the end? The second concept is quite simpler. Maybe it is a literal verse, coming in with the whole idea of a person who has nothing to do but make his life a little more dramatic. It adds to the idea the others have given.

And this week the trend Was to borrow all the strength that you could lend To keep my head above the water and not descend Back to where I said I'd never go again

Again, more of the so-called "drama". The line "Was to borrow all the strength that you could lend" is a direct shot at the idea we have formed. You ask help from someone even though you could handle things on your own. You act like you cannot handle it but you are fully capable of doing it, if not better. The 3rd and 4th line is about the fear of the person to go back to that problem that has been eating him. He is asking help to face it yet he could do it by myself. How ironic.

So I say Give me a solution And watch me run with it And then you gave You gave me a solution What have I done with it Cause I was absolutely sure I had it all figured out Way back then But after this day it's this week all over again

It is almost the same as the first chorus except the last line. He is going through his life yet he is not trying to fix the problem. "But after this day it's this week all over again" is talking about how the problem won't go away and how it will just go on and on and on until he tries to fix it. Apparently, he doesn't want to make a move.

And I just want to get mugged at knifepoint To get cut enough to wake me up Cause I know that I don't want to die Sitting around watching my life go by

At knifepoint, just enough to wake him up. He is talking about wanting something to happen that would cause him to act. He is basically waiting for a big day where he will start to act right. Why? "Cause I know that I don't want to die, sitting around watching my life go by". He doesn't want his life to go to waste on a single problem. He just can't let it consume his time. But nothing motivates him to act. The only turning point would be the happening of the particular event which would cause him to change.

And what we take from this is what we'll get And we haven't quite figured it out just yet Because all of us are all to stuck Strapped to a chair watching out lives blow up Stuck watching our lives blow up

"And we haven't quite figured it out just yet" is talking about how he is still not motivated enough. He says that all of us are still stuck in our "drama" of a life watching ourselves fall apart. Thus the lines "Stuck watching our lives blow up". We play our life on a stage that only we know the script, and it is eating us up. Even though we can fix the problem, we are still waiting for the right moment where we would turn around and head on to a new direction. That is my take on the song.

maybe it doesnt coincide with others opnions but thats my take on it.:)