| Christina Perri – The Lonely Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song isn't about anything shallow and obvious like crying over some guy. It's an internal battle during a life transition when one is most at their most vulnerable state. That purgatory like stage in your life where you don't really know your place in life at the moment and still trying to figure out who you are. "The Lonely" being the unexplored person one craves to be. She's crying because she doesn't know where or who to be. She is familiar with her life but wants to grow and transition onto her next stage of life. It's scary to leave something you are accustom to, but once you become unsatisfied with yourself, you have to change. "To afraid, to go inside For the pain of one more loveless night". She's already cried her mask off and now has to face herself, whom she does not love at the moment. To avoid herself, she goes to sleep. No one is there to tell her how to figure out who she is or how to re-create herself and that's why it's silent, almost like a state of shock. "I'm a ghost of a girl that I want to be most" is describing how she has an idea of who she wants to be, but lacks the strength and conviction to be that solid person. Just like an actual ghost, who is still just wondering the earthly plane trying to figure out what mission they have to complete before they can transcend. "I'm the shell of the girl that I used to know well". She's just going through the motions of her younger self that is already established, until she figures out how to break free. "Dancing slowly in an empty room" reaffirms that she is just going through the motions of steps of life. To help calm herself on her journey of growth, she soothes herself just as a parent sings Lullabies to their children when they are stressed. This song is about the eye of the storm of being reborn. The only person that is going to be there forever is you and you have to know when to re-invent yourself to make yourself better. It's a constant cycle, of journeying into the unknown. Leaving the "broken pieces of a barely breathing story" behind as you break out of your too small and stagnant mold to create a new appreciation for who you are, where you'll find your heart again meaning love yourself again. In conclusion, you can't depend on anyone else to tell you who you are or validate your existence. You have to constantly figure it out on your own. Just as a Phoenix is reborn, it dies and is reborn again from the ashes of its former self. |
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