| Matchbox Twenty – Real World Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I feel like this song is kind of an anthem for people who are tired of life, or for people that are sick of "the real world hassling" them. "Well I wonder what it's like to be the rainmaker I wonder what it's like to know that I made the rain I'd store it in boxes with little yellow tags on every one And you can come and see them when I'm done, when I'm done" I think the first verse is about finally the feeling of doing something important, instead of feeling like an unwanted outcast. "I wonder what it's like to be a super hero I wonder where I'd go if I could fly around downtown From some other planet, I get this funky high on the yellow sun Boy I bet my friends will all be stunned, they're stunned" Again, I think that this verse is about being important, being wanted. "Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here? If I were someone else, would this all fall apart? Strange, where were you, when we started this gig, I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me And you, and you, and me" The chorus is about how they want to be a different person but they don't know what would happen, they don't know what could change. They don’t know if something would be better. And then they have that little voice; their conscious, trying to talk them out of their thoughts and the narrator is kind of like, angry at that voice for telling them to think it through, “Strange, where were you, when we started this gig?” That’s them wanting to know why haven’t I heard this reassurance before? Why are you here now? "Well I wonder what it's like to be the head honcho I wonder what I'd do if they all did just what I said Well I'd shout out an order, I think we're out of this man get me some Boy, don't make me wanna change my tone, my tone” This again, is the narrator wanting to feel something that makes them of importance, they want the feeling of being listened to, of being more than enough. They want to be heard. “Please don't change, please don't break Well the only thing that seems to work at all is you Please don't change, at all from me To you, and you to me” This is the conscious telling them that they’ll be okay and their begging this person to be okay, to stay the same, to not break. “I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me And you, and me” This is the narrator saying how fed up they are. But it's just my thoughts. |
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| Matchbox Twenty – 3 A.M. Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[s4v4nn4h1:10010] Man, this got tears welled in my eyes because my parents struggled with addiction too and I was like, "Shit, I wasn't the only one." Way to stay strong though. | |
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