| Imagine Dragons – Monster Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The thing about songs is that people can relate to them with their different experiences. Some other people who have commented have suggested this song being related to people with mental disorders, which I find understandable. But as someone who has never experienced this, I cannot personally relate to this. My interpretation is that this is about an internal conflict. I hope that you all feel that a need for belonging is inherent to all humans; humans are not solitary creatures. They build societies where they belong to, are conditioned to belong to that society, and if that fails, find a society in which they do belong. The conflict is between the need to belong and the need to be true to yourself. As a child who has been rejected by society, or on a lower scale, by his/her peers; a child who does not fit in this society, and cannot move away, you'd want to change yourself. This works if you're close to what is expected of you... but if you're very different, it feels unnatural. You try and try, but the habits, the values, just don't settle. I keep on lying to myself, and to the rest of society, who am I really? I know that this is not who I am, but you don't. If I told you that this is not who I really am, would you not like me anymore? If you think the real me is (a dangerous person?), would you be scared? I feel like everyone around me is being true to themselves, and I'm the only one with the problem, that perhaps something is wrong with me. I only have a candle to guide me; in this dark place, I don't know which way to go. Should I find myself? Should I find my way out? I'm losing myself, I don't know who I really am. This lie that I've been acting out all this time, is growing stronger, that it's becoming the real me. I've turned into this lie... and I don't want to. Can I ever find the right thing to do? If I show you all who I really am, will you all hate me? Do I have to run and hide? I never said that I wanted this, I just wanted to be myself and fit in at the same time. But now there's a problem, and it won't leave me. Will you leave me if I tell you who I really am? Would you be scared of me if I'm not who you think I am? I get the feeling that everything around me is normal, and I'm the only one with this problem. |
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| The All-American Rejects – Gives You Hell Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Uh... What? It sounds like you're saying that he couldn't have had a girlfriend before he was eighteen. Maybe I misunderstood, but that's what it sounds like to me. | |
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