| Chris Daughtry – All These Lives Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| My first impression of the song “All These Lives,” by Chris Daughtry was that it was about how the violation is ruining our society. Although the beginning of the song seemed to be describing how a kid was kidnapped, the later verses mention “all these lives” that were taken away by “you.” It is very unlikely that one person would kidnap so many people, and thus Daughtry is taking a broad view of crimes in general and the case with the child abduction is merely an example of exactly how a family is damaged by violence. When the narrator says that “Never gonna let you take my world from me” and “you ain’t coming in,” he is protesting against the violence that is so prevalent in the society nowadays. He is trying to say that even though the violence is ruining everything else, it is not going to mess with his life. It is another proof that the song is not simply about the child abduction, since a kidnapper doesn’t necessarily have to ‘come in’, in order to cause trouble in someone’s life. In overall, the narrator is going back and forth from an example of child abduction to the criticizing of all kinds of violence. The essential theme of the song is that the violence is everywhere in the world and the narrator is fighting back against it because it hurts his heart whenever he sees the victims and he doesn’t want the violence to influence his own life. | |
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