| Tyler Joseph – Taken by Sleep Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This song probably means something else to everyone but here's what I think. To me this song is about about having a friend who very recently committed suicide. As in that very day. "It just hit me as I lay my head down No one around, in the dark cold night I hear a sound In my head, repeat track of everything you've ever said..." I think what this means is he (Tyler) was trying to hold it together as long as he could when he found out about what happened, and now that no one is around he finally lets it sink in. He thinks about everything that this friends has every said, possibly searching for anything that might have foreshadowed what would happen. "It's 4, crack the door to the hallway in my dreams But it seems that my hallway keeps closing in on me Forcing me out, making me think about you and how you're gone I see 4 o' 5 with teary eyes, and then I write this song" It's late now and he's trying to sleep but he just keeps thinking about how this friend is now gone. He cries about it but then realizes that he needs to get all of his thoughts out so he writes the song. "And I just can't believe it has to be this way You know we say it seems to me that it was just the other day I saw your face and saw your light, you ran the race, you fought the fight But now it's all bein' torn down for me tonight" It's hard for him to process that fact that his friend is gone because he was recently with them and they seemed perfectly fine. But now he realizes that someone can appear fine and be the complete opposite. "And I know it might be a little selfish for me to say But I need to know if you thought of me at all today Cause every day I walk past the place you left, 5 days of the week And now it's 10 after 4 and I am taken by sleep" He just wants to know if his friend thought of him before going through with it. To me "every day I walk past the place you live five days of the week" means that they were in college together and this friend lived in a dorm or somewhere near/on campus during weekdays then visited family or something like that on weekends. "Spending hours on end, deciding what I'd say to a friend if I ever saw him again 'Cause I don't know if I know, don't want to come across the wrong way And I don't know if I know, but I know I want to see your face today" Some of this verse is a little hard because of how it's worded but here's what I got: Tyler keeps thinking about what he would say to this friend if he ever saw him again (basically meaning exactly what it's saying) because he wouldn't want to say the wrong thing, and would also just want to see them one more time. "And somebody told me they saw you cry and break down Do you know how hard that is to get around and think about? It's not like you to let emotions get the best of things Especially when everything is hanging in the air we breathe" Someone had told him that this friend had fallen apart right in front of them and now it's hard to think about because someone knew that this person was not okay and they still killed themself. It's even harder to think about knowing that this person wasn't someone to let their feelings get the best of things since things will spread around and people will know things. "I'll sing a song to you my friend" This is the last line and (in my opinion) a way of saying "this song is a tribute to you and I'll make sure you are not forgotten" |
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