| My Chemical Romance – Summertime Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| 2025! Song has always reminded me of Billie Joe Armstrong's wife, Adrienne. She has stuck by him - and scraped her knees picking him up. It's an anthem for everyone of us who has taken time - regularly - to appreciate, never take for granted love & support from others. People who could have walked away, but didnt. Too many people never find this. And some of us wind up losing it. | |
| Simple Plan – Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?) Lyrics | 11 months ago |
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What this song is about has been something that bothers the hell out of me. I'm not a hardcore fan of the band, and likely first heard it quite some time after it had come out. I never heard, read or saw anything about the song. No interivews, Never saw the video. Never saw the anti-drunk driving movement using it as a sort of anthem for their cause. It was just me and the song. No influence. I'll assume most people know Green Day...and the album American Idiot. This is a concept album telling a complex story with 5 characters. You need to listen quite a few times before you start figuring out a "storyline." Really, there is none intended. And then there's the hit "Wake Me Up When September Ends." A) It's part of the album's "story". B) The video is about a young, poor boyfriend/girlfriend...they love each other...but money forces the boy to join the army...she's shattered...and the boy dies in Iraq. C) "Obviously" it's about Bille Joe Armstrong losing his dad when he was a boy. For quite a while, BJA had made clear he'd never write a song about his dad, though, saying it was "too personal." Most of us hung in, though, and he admitted eventually it was about his dad. But he wanted fans to think about the song and not just be told what it was about. Genius. The way art is supposed to work. For a long time, I only knew "How Could This Happen to Me?" without outside influence. As someone who's struggled with severe mental health issues since I was a boy, and suicidal since I started high school in 1983, the song was CLEARLY a groundbreaking view of how a suicidal person feels just before they abort a suicide OR when it's too late, they've taken the pills and there's no abort button. I fought through "exiting" a hundred times in my life, but in 2017 I decided to do it. Then aborted. I thought "I'm not going to be a coward"...then thought..."you fucking coward." In all the time leading up to it, though, I was thinking "How is this happening to me?" Yes, all of us in this situation know the reasons, the causes, even have people we blame. But it's not fair. There's a lot of anger involved for some of us. Long before I heard this song, I imagined many times that if pills were my route, I might panic and not be able to vomit, and die in sheer terror. That's what I hear in this song. |
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