| A Day to Remember – I'm Already Gone Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I can see a few ways this can be seen as a love song, but that tone just doesn't seem that way. I hear a guy dying to begin the search for his identity. Knowing that he has to do that and not let others, whoever she is (mother?), define who he is. I feel the person (he or she, most likely he; I'll use he from here on out) is alone right now for whatever reason (recent break up, etc.). But the song isn't entirely about getting back together with whoever she is, it's more about moving on, learning, and growing. At the beginning, he's looking for him, whatever is left of it anyways. In a sense, he's lost what he is, he doesn't know himself. So he's picking and choosing what's left of him (so he can move on). "Just let it go...", "It's all you've ever known...". What he knows may have very well been defined by the people in his past, some authoritative figure, most likely a parent (as he's making rounds all around town, but it's familiar, he knows it as opposed to not knowing it). He has to let go of them and move on for himself. It's hurt him in the past "I've worked it out, you'll always bring me down." At this point, I'm assuming she is a mother (possibly). I don't see her as a girlfriend (past or present). His life up to now has been for her, it seems implied with the next line "from here on out, I'm doing things for me". He wants to find himself, it's a common theme to the song. The first notion of love does come in at this verse, which is that he knows he won't, he can't, live alone. But he also states that he has to do him first, he has to find himself first. We know that he's gone through hardships with the second to last verse that is repeated twice; it begins "with everything that sets me back, I push harder to clear the way" We know that he's gone through a tough time or two, but he doesn't regret anything he does, rather, he wants to learn and grow from it. He can't stay stuck there ("can't live my life in yesterday"), but he can't forget it either. Now the chorus does have the notion of love in it, but it's a future love. It shows that he knows love is in his future, but that's not what he's looking for. He knows there is a faceless person for him, and that will come in the future, but not now. He's looking for a reason to come back home, most likely after he is finished finding himself, his identity. Basically, he, whoever he is, has reached that part of life where you split from who made you who you are and are chasing after your own identity. He needs to know who he is, and it seems like he's going to put his love life on hold, in a way, let it come to him. |
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