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| New Order – True Faith Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Oh, @Anyaleh, it's no problem at all, don't worry about it ;-) This was an old comment anyway, I forgot I even said this ;-D |
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| Gary Jules – Mad World (Tears for Fears cover) Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Man, to me this song sounds like exactly the way I was looking at things right after I got out of High School over 30 years ago, I had no idea what I wanted to to in life, didn't like any of the jobs I could get, I was depressed & close to suicidal, the whole world seemed to have been drained of all meaning, people's faces, places, events I would once have found enjoyable. I saw the world as this meaningless, repetitive rat race, which in some sense it is, but I didn't realize that my depression was like seeing the world thru a pair of "dark-colored glasses". The part about the children waiting for a time when they can feel good, and it's only on their birthday was so sad, but it fit me more as an adult as a child, during that depression I only felt better if there was some external reason, like my birthday or going out someplace nice. Even the part about being nervous in school & feeling like no one knows you & even the teacher just looks right thru you as if you don't matter - that was my experience too. I think its about alienation & maybe depression, but also about the meaningless ways we choose to spend our lives. |
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| New Order – True Faith Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Oh, by the way, the lyrics here are correct in saying "see the light" rather than "see delight" - New Order has a website & I confirmed the correct lyrics on there. Some other websites are showing the lyrics as "delight", but obviously they are incorrect. |
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| New Order – True Faith Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Wow, it seems obvious now that this was written about drugs, but I had no clue. I was crazy about this song but lately could not recall the name or the group, finally did just now. Back when this video was running on MTV, I somehow suspected it was about a person with emotional trauma getting to the source of his pain through therapy, the "morning sun" being a positive image, light at the end of the tunnel, etc. And the "I feel so extraordinary" part, I thought of as positive emotions related to an emotional breakthrough or recovery. At first I actually thought they were saying "my morning sun is the TRUCK that brings me here", but after I realized it was DRUG, I thought they were referring to a person undergoing a drug therapy to recover lost childhood memories. And I also thought the lyrics were saying "I took your time & you took my money" rather than "YOU took my time & you took my money" - I thought this might have referred to, the patient taking the time of his therapist, and the therapist took his money, with a sort of reference to being kind of left out there on his own, feeling abandoned in the big bad world that is "too demanding" now that the therapy is over. A friend went thru years of psychotherapy for serious childhood abuse issues, probably why I thought that - funny how you can read what you want into anything - |
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