| The Classic Crime – Headlights Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yeah I agree with what a lot of you said, but I want to point out a few other things I've seen that back this up. First of all, The Classic Crime is a band that presents hope in a lot of their lyrics. In order to offer someone hope there must be a them of hopelessness in a lot of things they write. "I know you're cold, come home." really hits this point. When something is empty, it's cold. After you've lost someone you care about, and it's pushed you to the point of suicide (which the song makes apparent at the very beginning with "A summer's drive away from dying.") When someone is going through something painful you want them to know you're there for them. He says the note is about someone he used to know, and that he knows life can be short. So this is a revelation I haven't seen anyone piece together. This song is a song offering hope to people who are hopeless, and I feel that the person he wrote the song about did indeed kill themselves. So the song is so emotional because he's lost someone, and he wants the world to know that you don't have to take it to that level when there's pain. He also offers hope to someone who's going through this pain by saying "Please don't face the headlights of the oncoming cars alone." It's like saying, "I'll be there for you and with you, no matter what." which is more of the religious aspect of the song I believe. Something present in most of their songs. This is my first post here, btw, so I hope that analysis made sense. |
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