| Chris Cornell – Seasons Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| My favorite song lately. It’s been absolutely stuck in my head. This song is about depression and the critical eyes everyone turns on themselves when the realities of life steal away the “summer nights and long warm days” of youthful exuberance. It’s about being stuck in a rut of self-doubt and self-loathing to the point of wanting to withdraw from it all. The beauty of this song is in the major key (hopeful) portions rising out of the circular, minor key portions like he is reaching out to grasp a connection to someone who could “crawl into [his] world” and understand his pain, and pull him free of it before the “seasons roll on by”. The “dreams” he refers to are the fleeting pleasures of fame, or praise, or self-medication. The “cold hard floor” is the realization that at the end of the day, these are not real and he is still the same self-critical introvert who has a hard time finding connection. But he is still hopeful! | |
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