| Sister Hazel – The World Inside My Head Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Have you ever heard the expression "Stop the train! I wanna get off!" It's about how life is always moving whether you like it or not. Well Ken Block did get off the train wrote this song when he fell into a lot of heavy drinking and drug use. He tries to be vague, but you can kind of see this when he begins the song talking about being on a path where he stumbles a bit. That is just the introduction of this story though to give us a setting to work with. The true meaning comes out next when goes on to talk about how everyone else interrupts Ken's actions as if they know him. Other people being so high up there thinking they know better whispering behind his back, but he's not dumb. Ken knows how he's being viewed that way. I found the repeated lyrics "But the paint on me is beginning to dry. And it's not what I wanted to be." to be very poetic in a sense. Or at least my interpretation of it anyway. This reiterates that everyone has painted their picture of him; the drying part to signify that it's being finalized. Of course, Ken doesn't want this to be his painted image. He even pushes at the end of the song that he wishes could paint his own image for them. So that's the conflict he's working with. The rest of the song is a combination of sharing his feelings, and explaining his own person reasons for why he is where he is (Ken just needed a break from the world; he needed to be distracted and have a chance to dream). The whole message being that you can't get an accurate image of me unless you know the world inside my head and my own personal experiences, and the struggles that come with trying to portray these things before someone's mind is made up about an individual. |
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