| Seether – Fine Again Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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^ Seether totally rocks, but when it comes to music videos they never do the songs justice. Fine Again, goes beyond mere drug addiction. It's about depression and suicide. The narrator clearly has lost the will to live and is coming to turns with what he intends to do (i.e. kill himself). The Kübler-Ross model describes, in five discrete stages, the process by which people deal with grief and tragedy, especially when diagnosed with a terminal illness. I think this song encapsulates this perfectly. Someone on the brink with no alternative but to end their life. It seems like everyday's the same and I'm left to discover on my own -life's become mundane and routine, nothing excites the narrator so he becomes withdrawn and despondent. He's in DENIAL that his life has taken such unfulfilling turn. It seems like everything is gray and there's no color to behold -he's emotionally flat, can't relate to a happy/positive state. Everything/one adds to his anxiety/sadness. They say it's over and I'm fine again, yeah -Loved ones tell him to 'get over it', it being some past traumatic event that's still haunting him. They feel it's time he move on with his life, but he cannot. Try to stay sober, feels like I'm dyin', here -He tries to appease loved ones, pretend he's normal, okay but on the inside the fakeness is eating away at him. This ANGERS him. And I am aware now of how everything's gonna be fine one day Too late, I'm in hell -Comes to the realization that things will never improve for him. The daydream of a better future is shattered by the overwhelming pain/greif/remorse of his present reality. This hints at chronic DEPRESSION. I am prepared now, seems everyone's gonna be fine -He believes the world would be better off without him. Envisions loved ones happier without having to worry about him. One day too late, just as well -He contemplates/hesistates taking his own life wondering if tommorow will be better. Then decides it won't so he may as well pull the trigger. I feel the dream in me expire -All hope is gone, will to live deminishing. and there's no one left to blame it on -Loved ones abandon him, give up trying to fix him. He blamed them for his problems but now sees he's at fault too. I hear you label me a liar 'cause I can't seem to get this through -His true feelings cannot be expressed vocally. He wants to change but no one, including himself, believes that he can. You say it's over, I can sigh again, yeah -This is his own conscience trying to motivate him to rehabilitate himself. He's BARGAINING the pros and cons of living on. Why try to stay sober when I'm dyin', here? -He questions himself. What's the point of recovery when I'm so close to the edge? Recognizes the futility of living and gives in to suicidal thoughts. And I'm not scared now. -The stages of greif fulfilled. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Throughout the entire song there's hints of each but this part really captures his ACCEPTING that he's about to die and is okay with it. I must assure you, you're never gonna get away -He has an epiphany that nothing short of death will release his soul from a miserable existence. And I'm not scared now. And I'm not scared now, No.. Final doubts being cast aside as he commits suicide. seems eveything's gonna be fine for me For me; for myself For me, for me, for myself For me, for me, for myself The best outcome for him was ending his misery so now he's in a better place for eternity. He knows loved ones won't understand how he could have left them, but hopes they'll understand it was in his best interest to do it. I am pepared now for myself I am prepared now, and I am found... again He is reborn. A new being. The misery that was his past existence is behind him and he has now found contentment and tranquility. The song's pretty deep and sad, but I can totally relate. SEETHER RULES!! |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet with Butterfly Wings Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Where do I begin? This is one of the best rock anthems of all time! the world is a vampire, sent to drain secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames -Everyone's out to use or abuse you. People befriend you then stab you in the back. and what do i get, for my pain betrayed desires, and a piece of the game even though i know-i suppose i'll show all my cool and cold-like old job -Feeling hurt by betrayal but realizing backstabbing's apart of life, so gives in to life's pressures. despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage then someone will say what is lost can never be saved despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage -resistence is futile. We're all doomed to become conformists. There's no escapefrom reality. now i'm naked, nothing but an animal but can you fake it, for just one more show -he's asking himself to appear normal around others even though he realizes it's all a facade. and what do you want, i want to change and what have you got when you feel the same -he askes the audience if they'll settle being conformists and posers, or will they try to rebel. tell me i'm the only one tell me there's no other one jesus was an only son tell me i'm the chosen one jesus was an only son for you -god doesn't exist, but yet is valued higher by society than fellow humans. The singer wants validation, compassion he feels is lacking in his life. despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage and i still believe that i cannot be saved -accepts his fate that he'll never fit in, belong. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Zero Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song is not only about depression, but glorifying depression. He's kinda saying I'm a Zero but so what? The first verse is about acceptence of self, coming to terms with not being normal, conformist. 'Wanna go for a ride?'- losing one's inhibitions, no longer afraid to be different. The second verse is how the vices of the world don't fulfill or enrich his life, only make him feel more lost and empty. Sex is no solution. Religion is no solution. Drugs are no solution. Materialism/vanity is no solution. 'I'm in love with my sadness'- this sums up the song perfectly, pessimism is the only sure controllable thing in his life. Depression gives him a clarity/high nothing else can. 'I never let on'- he masks his depression around others but blames himself for conforming when he just wants to be free to express his true self, his 'one and only'. |
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