| Imagine Dragons – The Fall Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I’ve listened to this song a thousand times by now and I quite love this song. I find that a lot of people are interpreting it to have something to do with religion, but I don’t at all think that is the case, as it never mentions anything about religion at all or really even hint at it, yes it says “I keep on praying to see the light” but in the present day, the word pray is used without connecting to religion quite a bit.\n\nThe lyrics: \n\n“Maybe I’m broken, maybe in wrong”\nClearly, they’ve reached a rough patch in life, and they’re beginning to question their life \n\n“I could’ve spoken sooner then I should’ve”\nThey’re looking back at an event in their life where they spoke too late, but now they are wondering what would’ve happened if they said something sooner\n\n“Only the good die old, that’s what they told me but I don’t know”\nThey want to do good, they want to live a long life, but they are uncertain about what others have told them, and they are beginning to doubt their loved ones\n\n“Maybe I’m breaking up with myself, maybe I’m thinking I should just keep to the things that I’ve been told, wait for the colors to turn to gold”\nThey’re lost, and they are beginning to change as a person, but they’re scared of what that could mean. To confront their situation, they’re beginning to think about just doing what their loved ones told them to, and just abandoning their thoughts, just to wait for better days\n\n“Do you know? You’re all I know, everything comes crashing down, you’re all I know.”\nThey look back to en extremely close person they lost one way or another, or a close friend they’re trying to talk to, trying to tell them that said person that they’re their last hope, but they’re struggling in some way. At the same time, knowing that in the end, said person will always be their last source of comfort\n\n“I’m ready for the fall, I’m ready for everything that I believed in to drift away, I’m ready for the leaves, I’m ready for the colors to burn to gold and crumble away”\nSaid person doesn’t respond, and so they’re lost again. So now they just accept it, preparing for the end. Ready to just lose everything they have, and probably ready to end their own life as well\n\n“Maybe I’m destined to be distraught, always a reason breaking me down to my knees in the dead of night, I keep on praying to see the light”\nThey think back on their life, which has been nothing but pain and loss for years, and the nights they’ve spent thinking, crying, hoping, and slowly watching their good life fade away. \n\n“You were the one, you were the one, you were the one who helped me see. You were the one, you were the one, oh you gave it all to me”\nTheir close loved one is likely gone permanently at this point, and they’re trying desperately to reach out to them for help, and to say thank you, but they can’t. \n\nWith their final failure in reaching for hope, they just stop “I’m ready for the fall” they give up “I’m ready for the leaves” and they likely take their own life “I’m ready for the colors to burn to gold and crumble away” \n\nA long silence, as if to show that the person is now gone, that they went silently, and that nobody noticed a thing… | |
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