| Barenaked Ladies – When I Fall Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Verse 1 - The first verse in my opinion sets the stage of who the character is and the character's struggle. He is especially troubled by gravity, the difficulty of life... he wants levity, but gravity brings him down. He tries to get it off his mind, but ultimately, gravity and the circumstances of his life bring him down literally and figuratively. He is near his victory, or God, or something higher than himself, but refuses to accept that against his own good. Chorus: The character wishes gravity and his life, as it were, weren't real, or that they were different, that he could literally fly away or change it without the consequences, and then he thinks about trying it, about changing things and wonders if God, fate, a loved one, or some other force would catch him tried to do so and failed. He struggles with his faith in the totality of existence. He wants to give up, seeing little to no hope and release himself and wants someone or something as his safety net as he is burdened by life and its gravity. He feels that he needs help, but he doesn't know where to go or if circumstances will afford him a safety net and in any event refuses to accept it. The wind is trying to blow him off the building, but he stands strong. Life is trying to beat him to the ground, but he stands strong. Verse 2: The character considers religion and worshiping false idols, the wrong things, things that he thought he wanted, using his squeegee as an example of displacing the wrong things with his center, which is either faith or spirituality or simply happiness. Maybe he works too hard, perhaps he dwells on things. He has a demon and a monkey on his back. He begins to question his life, what he has done with it, and how he has misplaced his faith in the grand scheme of things. He decides to hang on to what he has and try to defeat his demons. He knows that if he thinks about it, he may do the unthinkable, and that life is trying its hardest to get him to do it. He knows to stay positive and not look down on life. No matter what the winds of life throw at him, he can't do anything but complain about it, and that's getting him nowhere Verse 3: He looks through the window at what he sees, and that is good people who have sold their souls and become imprisoned in their life of wealth and opulence, which is a tomb, a shell, a prison. He considers what it would be like to be them, and in a way wishes that he could walk a mile in their shoes so that he may have what they have in terms of worldly possessions,, and he wonders if they would like to walk a mile in his, to struggle as he has, and if their life is parallel to his by its own right in terms of being a struggle. He reaches the realization that they struggle in their own way, and that life/gravity is pulling them down and they share much of the same strife by their own right. He is on the outside looking in, which gives him insight into the state of things. He says that while they want to give into the urge and give way to gravity and life and uncertainty by taking or changing their lives or some other action, they fear that that will land them right back where they are, which is their own personal hell. They are who they are. They may have lost their souls earning their money or living their life, and if they jump or change the state of things, their souls may not find peace in the afterlife or the next phase of their life because what you do in this life or phase of our life goes or stays with you to the afterlife or the next phase to an extent as you cannot change your soul, so their souls will survive, even if their life or a certain phase is over is over, and their souls will have to deal with what they did in the now. Verse 4 - the actor wishes he could give up or change his life or cicumstances into something that he thinks that wants it to be, and wishes he didn't live a life so lonely. He sees himself in the world alone, and wonders if his loved ones are in the afterlife. Something is holding him up, and he doesn't want to trust it, be it faith, God, fate, etc. He wishes he could deny what is supporting him from gravity, but knows deep down that it is not his time. and that he is being held up for a reason. He is closer to the truth than he has ever been, but refuses to accept it. He could be alone in life, or feel alone, and want to be with someone who cares, someone familiar to him. Verse 5 - The actor looks within himself and at himself through his own eyes in a new way, and reaches the conclusion that he is the master of his own life to an extent, that he paints his future, and that despite all the things that are against it being the way he thinks that he wants it to be, life, and as it would be, circumstances, are constantly changing. He might be his own worst enemy and his own toughest critic, but there is always new hope, you can always start over. It's never too late. Everything is in his mind and totally up to him with just a little help from the scaffold. This realization is incredible comfort to him. Amazing. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – So Right Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Simple, it's about spending quality time with the ones you love, friends, family, significant others, whatever. It's about having a good time and holding on to those good times, because tommorow, they'll be gone. People will move on, what have you, so you got to live for the night. It can be a graduation, moving on to another job, or whatever occasion. I agree also with the fans theory. Alot of Dave songs are written to fans. He never forgets why he sells out massive venues in seconds - the fans. |
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