| The Strokes – One Way Trigger Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I think this counts as a memory, since it has to do with a personal experience of mine. My best friend at the time, and still is, had frequent suicidal thoughts, but it was a bit weird, since you would see her as a very happy person, she had a boyfriend, she had good health, good family, and nice friends. But you can never judge someone's thoughts knowing just that. Behind everything there were little holes of problems, that were destroying her, her boyfriend was a wreck, there was some trouble in her family, most of her friends were untrusty, and she like herself the way she was. She would tell only me about these problems, and I always did my best to help her, I remember telling her once that "There is a million reasons to live". I see this lyric as a counterpart of my perspective, what she was thinking. Expressing how fun things ended up bad for her, how things were a mess, not right but not hard, sunny summers being unmeaningful, looking for a better plan of enjoyment apart from ending her life. Im asking her to stay, im trying to convince her, and in an opposite meaning but same pronounciation, I tell her there's a million reasons to live, "But there's a million reasons to leave" "Find a job, find a friend Find a home, find a dog Settle down, out of town Find a dream, shut it down" She tells herself how to live her life, how maybe by accomplishing simple and rewarding things may make things better, but as she keeps finding problems in them, she just wants to shut everything down. "Please, please don’t point it that way It’s just a trigger that goes once and you’ll be unafraid" The rest is talk of being uneasy, of how all of it would be cleansed by just simply pulling a trigger,it would only have to go once and everything is solved, an easy task for her. At the very end. "I don’t wanna be in there with you I don’t wanna be in there without your loving either I waited for your thoughts Can’t wait no longer" She doesn't wanna be in life, but she doesn't want to miss out on everything either. She finally realizes that she's doing all of these things that are destroying her because she wants people to think normal of her, having a boyfriend, having friends, even though it hurts her, but she is not waiting for these thoughts anymore. If anyone asks, she's more than great now, this situation was hard on both of us, but now it's just a reminder of what we don't have to do to ourselves in life, as is any other situation we live. To this day she still tells me that I saved her life, and I couldn't be more happy about that. The Strokes have been my favorite band for a long time now, but believe it or not, this song from my least favorite album, is the one that speaks to me the most, I feel describes what we lived perfectly. I always find meanings in their songs, sometimes political, sometimes even of situations from Julian or the other members, but few songs I feel resemble my life, this is the biggest of them. Thanks for reading. |
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