| Staind – Take This Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I agree with this also. Apathy is a deal breaker for me in any relationship. While I've never struggled to maintain a relationship with someone who has a serious addiction, I have several people who were just apathetic about EVERYTHING (Themself, Me, The relationship, Those around them, etc...). I don't think this song has to be about addiction, cheating or anything in particular. I feel it could be about anyone who realizes they are in a bad relationship and wants out. |
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| Staind – Take This Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I agree, I don't get the feeling about longing for a love lost. I get the feeling that it is about someone who wants to end a current relationship. This song speaks exactly how I've felt a few times before. | |
| Avenged Sevenfold – Critical Acclaim Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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@Manicvermilion Amen to that. If more people realized that they didn't have to choose between 2 totally screwed up platforms, this country would be far better off. This notion that most have that there can only be 2, totally blows my mind. Especially considering where each of those two has gotten us. |
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| Hurt – Talking to God Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I can relate to this song completely. My father is one of those fanatical christians. He grew up in a super religous household and his father was a pentecostal preacher. He rebelled when he was younger and his parents only condemned him for his actions. He was basically forced to join the army just to get out of their household. His father died while he was in the army and my father never got to make amends with him. He honestly believed his father died hating him and as he got older this began to really, really wear on him and cause serious bouts of guilt and depression, which he did a somewhat job of hiding from us. Well about the time I turned 15-16 my father decided he should change the way we were living and get us all in church. He got saved and instead of helping his guilt and depression, it only made it worse. My father, the man I use to look up to and joke around with, turned into a severely depressed and withdrawn man. At this age, I needed my father more than I ever had but I felt like I had lost him and he had abandoned us. He would rarely talk to us, other than trying to push this twisted version of religious on us. He quit watching the normal television and movies he used to watch and only watched dollar-worshipping televangelists and some severely f***ed up religious movies. Also, I used to wake up in the middle of the night and hear him in the living room crying for hours on end. When asked about it he said he was praying. All I could think was "If he really believes he's saved, Why is he so sad???" and "Is this what being saved really is? If so, I want no part of it." It led me to questioning religion as a whole and really turned me completely against it for a long time. It really used to mess with me. I began have depression issues of my own and that was a really tough time in my life but, who doesn't have a tough time at that age? I would ask for his help and advise because who else can a young man turn to but his father? He never had any advise and only blamed my problems on the fact that I wasn't saved. It was hard to even get that out of him as he would usually act like he didn't hear me and ignore me completely. I honestly thought he hated me and this deepened my depression even further. I was eventually put on anti-depressants at the age of 18 and they only seemed to work against me almost driving me to the edge of insanity. I had a cousin who committed suicide on September 12, 2001 and even though I was completely out of it thanks to antidepressants, I remember my aunt in her completely broken down state and my father sitting there repeating over and over again "If he (my cousin) had 5 minutes to do it over again, He wouldn't." and how he went to hell for committing suicide, all right in front of my aunt. How could someone sit right of someone they love and constantly kick them when they are already, understandably, at the edge??? Thankfully, one of my uncles finally made him shut-up.I hated my father more than anything for this. I finally had to get off of the meds a few months later because they had finally driven me over the edge and I attempted to OD on them. I realized, after making it through this, I didn't need them. My mother also didn't take to his change good at all. She grew up in a good family that went to church but didn't really take to the pentecostal setting too well and the fanatical stuff was wayyy too much for her. This led to my parents arguing all the time and my father making many threats of "Once these kids are gone, so am I". This led me to resent him and I stayed at that house probably much longer than I should have just to try and keep them together and make my father see things from our point of view so that he could get past his issues and become a much better husband and father. This really wore on me, caused many of my own issues and led to an even deeper split between my father and I. After about 10 years, he very slowly began to come around and I decided it was time to get out. My parents are still together but my father still battles the depression and is still following those crooked preachers and false prophets. He is still terrified of death and reads the obituaries everyday and his usual topic of conversation is "Did you hear about ______ dying?" and even sometimes tries to make speculations of where they went in the afterlife, even if he never met the person. I still have depression, anxiety and very low self-esteem issues of my own and anytime I try to ask for his help advise, he will only say he is praying for me but absolutely will not talk to me about it. Even with these issues still remaining, I have grown past my resentment of my father and now instead feel sorry for him. He tells my mother that he thinks I hate him. I don't and I've tried telling this to him but he can't get it through his head. I really wish there was something I could do for him to get him away from this twisted version of religion he was raised in and help him to find a true salvation but, this far in, and nothing has worked... |
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