| Anna Nalick – Wreck of the Day Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I love this song. It's one of my favorite songs to drive to. I go on random drives through the mountains in my 240sx when I get depressed and I have a well tuned hi-fidelity system and I listen to GOOD music on it. Music that means something to me amd gets out the emotion I'm trying to remove by driving with my soul. This is a good song to listen to on the way to the mountain passes when your just cruising. Best if it's the first song played after leaving the house. Cause then it's literal and it sinks in more. Cause then I'm litterally "driving away from the wreck of the day" I see it as meaning that her life is a wreck and the whole day has gone wrong and life is just a mess and it's too much to deal with and it's nice to just "drive away" from it all. And I agree with smartykat37 when they said that they thought it was about her being heartbroken and left and trying to find a new love but realising that it's simply not possible. So she's giving up on love. The love of her life has left her, and finding somebody that she loves just as much, a replacement, isn't possible. So she's just giving up on it. She's lost all hope of ever being happy again. Which is exactly the way I feel right now. The one I loved more than anything for most of my life, the yin to my yang left me a while back. I've tried moving on and even been with someone else. But ultimately it wasn't working because I'm not over her, I'll never be over her. I can't move on. I can't truely fall in love with anybody else... it's simply not possible for me I'd rather be alone than live a lie... so I give up. I'm no longer looking for anybody else. I'm just... alone. And depressed. I miss her so much. And it's been years now... so I give up on love. The way I see it I had my chance when I was with her, it came, it was great, and now it's gone forever. My heart will always belong to her. I honestly believe anna and I are of the same heart in this sense. When the depression of being lonely and knowing the one you love isn't ever coming back gets too much to bear and/or you've had a bad day and you just feel like giving up, it's time to go for a drive. Now I feel like I want to go for a drive.. |
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| Lights – Perfect Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Wow... The girl I love and used to be with a long time ago but can't be with again for another year and half due to severe personal issues coming between us sent me this song. Honestly it made me cry. This song is the perfect song for us.. it's like it was her singing it to me. because this really is 100% true for her on every level. and turn it around to be spoken boy to girl and it's just as true for me too... This song is amazing ... just truely amazing. it's the perfect song. |
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| Red – Pieces Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Hunny that's called a sign. Its weird but my iPod does this kind of thing to me also. I have 5,000 songs.... And it'll be on shuffle all songs and it'll play the EXACT song I'm thinking of exactly when it matters the most and I'm thinking about seeking it out in my library to listen to it. It seems to do it the most when it's a religeously enlightening/meaningful song such as this one and the most memorable time it happened was when it did this to Wings for Marie and 10000 Days (wings pt 2) by tool. I had that song stuck in my head cause I was relating to it and it wss touching me emotionally and right at that moment I turned my ipod on and it was on shuffle and when I hit next it went to Wings and after that ended pt 2 was THE NEXT SONG IT PLAYED!! WHAT ARE THE CHANCESS OF THAT HAPPENING??!! I cried. Literally. It was freaky. Like it was divine intervention on my ipod. But that's how god talks to people. Not through ipods but through signs. Signs like these. He will use whatever means he can to reach you. If music is what reaches you he will use that. The right song at the right time for example. Happens to me ALOT though. I'm actually almost used to it now. I take it as a sign or a gift and go about my business. If you look and are accune to them you can find signs everywhere. | |
| A Perfect Circle – Blue Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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So.... this song is amazing. I know that it's about a woman who's husband died and she can't cope with it and digs him up and pretends he's still alive... That's the concept of the video and the lyrics are reflected perfectly in that explanation. But lyrics meaning are subjective. Completely. They can mean two totally different things to two different people. I relate to this song heavily because of a situation currently in my life... And wouldn't you know it I came up with my meanings before watching the video or reading this thread and I came up with almost identical meanings. I actually am just copy and pasting part of an email to a girl that is very dear to me that I"ve been involved with for a long time. The situation is messed up between us in a way that makes it impossible for us to be together for a couple years and I had just learned some heart wrenching news from her... I used this song and it's newfound meaning to me to show her how I felt. Here's what's in the email: And right now I can't get A Perfect Circle - Blue out of my head because of you. It just makes me hurt so badly to think about all this. Every lyric of that song relates with me right now because of this... here. I'll show you why. The song starts: "I .... Didn't want to know... I just didn't want to know. Best to keep things in the shallow end. Cause I never quite learned how to swim" These lyrics are refering to the ignorance is bliss ideal... I relate because I love you and it hurts me to know these things and I know I'll love you no matter what so a part of me wishes I never knew about this to avoid the pain and be blissfully unaware. But I'd rather you be honest with me like this and tell me. This pain is less than the pain of not knowing till much later and finding out the hard way and loosing even more trust in you. "I close my eyes just to look at you, I'm taken by the seamless vision" I do close my eyes just to look at you and i am taken away by it. I love you. "ignore the smoke, ignore the smoke, ignore the smoke and smile...." Meaning to ignore the fact that it's fake and just an imagined situation to be allowed to feel it as real so it can make you happy as though you were actually with them. The reason I relate is self explanitory. The chorus is: "call an optimist she's turning blue, such a lovely color for you. Call it aftermath she's turning blue while I just sit and stare at you" Refering to the never quite learned how to swim parabole he's unable to save her from drowning so all he can do is sit and watch. I relate because I feel like your life is out of control and spiralling downward and and your drowning in it and I can do nothing but sit and watch because of the situation were in and us not being able to be together despite how much I want to help you. I want to save you. I know I could if I were allowed to... But for the next couple years all I can do is sit and watch and hope you can save yourself and survive long enough for me to be able to help I'm helping/saving her by just being with her. By once again being a part of her life When were finally able to be together again in a coupe years. It's the only time she's truely happy. And me too. And she's so depressed about us not being able to be togtether that she is basically self destructing and ruining her life and I can do nothing about it but watch and deal with the aftermath. Hence, this song. And he uses both optimist and aftermath in the chorus. Listin and you'll hear the difference. I used to think it was "callin out to me" refereing to the drowning "never learned to swim" line and calling out for help untill I found my meaning in this song. Watching the video only confirms this. |
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| Red – Break Me Down Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Loneliness can do strange things to you. It tears at your soul after a while... No peace of mind. He really is crying out to god to take away his emptiness. Remember, feeling pain can be better than never feeling anything at all. And if you have a break down you get all that torturous loneliness out of your system for a while and can possibly ride on the euphoria of feeling alive and peacefully thankful for your life for a change instead of feeling so alone you just wish it would end. A near death experience is really good for that too. Trust me, I know all too well from experience. He also refers to the strange battles you get into with yourself and your soul when you are alone in your thoughts too long. Refering to himself as a stranger even. I love when he refers to the "familiar shadows" of the darker corners of his soul. All the bad feelings that are trapped inside. God I love this band. I relate so much. |
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| Red – Pieces Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is about a girl he loves more than life itself and she lives so far away they can't be together and he is a broken mess because of it. Depressed and anxious and cant seem to get it all together. Just a bunch of broken peices. But then one day he finally gets to be with her (or maybe is just imagining that day) and it makes him feel whole. Like everythings ok again. The greatest form of euphoric happiness. He is co-dependent and cant deal with life without her. She represents to him everything that ever matters in his life. She is the meaning of his existence and without her he doesn't feel right. | |
| Red – Breathe Into Me Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is the opitome of the "holding it in" extreme anxiety causing desperation feeling that he portrays throughout this cd. The lyrics speak for themselves. I cannot make them any clearer. "And this is how it feels when I Ignore the words you spoke to me And this is where I lose myself When I keep running away from you" "And this is how it hurts when I Pretend I don't feel any pain And this is how I disappear When I throw myself away" I have no words to describe how amazing those lyrics are to me. They speak for themselves. When you just take the abuse and hold everything in and just try to make yourself let it go and end up running away from your problems... it feels like this song. Also this song feels a kind of continuation from "already over" like the frustration and anger type of anxiety since he's still talking about how he ran from her and he's falling and wants her to catch him and "breathe her life into him". He also talks about how this is what it's like when he finally hit's the ground and breaks apart when she doesn't catch him and he know's it really is over. But he still desperately wants her to take him back so he can feel sane again. He needs her to breathe her life back into him. Pretty much all the same thing I went through about a week ago. So I really relate. |
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| Red – Already Over Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Well I know what Red said it was about but I still find my own meaning in it. I don't see how you could see any other meaning in it but that's just psychosumatic cause once you see a meaning in a song it wont ever mean anything else to you. But anyways I think he's talking about a relationship with a girlfriend that's on the rocks. I recently related to this song hardcore. The first opening verse is talking about how when you love someone but your on the verge of breaking up with them, or especially if you just did, and really don't want it to be over, they are truley under your skin. Nomatter what you can't stop thinking about them and it hurts you because you know it's already over and it truley feels like your suffocating from emotional pain and theirs no way to escape it cause you really CAN NOT make yourself stop. And they always refer to fading being a term to express a side effect of deepening depression/anxiety that is very similar to "fading" as in the side effects of certain pills. Then he starts describing how he gives everything to this person, heart and soul, even though she is letting him go and he is also in a way letting go of himself by doing so. And he is reaching out for her, crying out for her to save him and forget the problems and just stay together and be happy, but he know's that it's too late, it's already over. Their's nothing he can do to fix it now but he's reaching out for her anyways as he falls (metaphorically) just praying for her to catch him but knowing it wont happen. Also this song relate's to their other song "let go" in that it's coming from the same problems of holding it in and just taking the abuse, and he said in that song that he didn't want to run away and in this song he refers to the fact that he did run away and it is what caused this recent episode where she is possibly leaving him and their appears to be no hope of fixing it. Then he goes on to show that he will do anything to save this relationship, anything, offer up his soul if he has to, but it's too late, it's already over now. A VERY deeply emotionaly inspired song. Coming from the same feeling of desperation so many of his songs seem to have |
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| Red – Let Go Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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What this song means to me. In a strong way (it's one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite artists) is that he is in a bad relationship and he's always holding in all of the pain from the fighting. He just takes the mental abuse untill he can't take it anymore and becomes desperate to just let go of the pain. That's why this song (along with most on the cd) have a stong tone of desperation to them. He's clearly having a very hard time dealing with holding everything in and is at a breaking point. He makes it clear when he says "I don't wanna be afraid, I don't wanna run away, I don't wanna sit here fading. It's more than I can take" I feel he is afraid of confronting the person, but he doesn't want to run away from them and doing nothing just makes him feel like he's fading away and he becomes desperate, so he just wants to "LET GO" and pretend it doesn't bother him. I probably feel this because I basically just explained a major part of my life. I deal with it almost every day I go through this same delima. It sucks and it really is more than I can take. My parents and my last girlfriend do this to me to make me feel this way. It's when you want to just explode on someone but you know you can't so you just have to let it go. But it really does suck. |
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