| AFI – ...But Home Is Nowhere Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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I think this song is about Davey as he sees himself, his life and development. The way he feels as a complete outcast, as a person who cannot really relate to anyone and feels like a total different species from the one he "belongs to" when he comes to think about it. The development I’m referring to is he doesn’t only feel this way different when he thinks about it anymore, it’s become a permanent feeling, something sticking to him he will never get rid off again and he knows so. This is my main idea about “…But Home is Nowhere”, Davey as a being condemned to suffer from his urge to complete himself knowing he will never reach his goal. It’s about him as an icomplete person not being able to totally accept this. (“I lay strewn across the floor, can’t solve this puzzle, every day another small piece can’t be found”). He tries to find the missing match every day again and again and just cannott stop it, but he feels if he was able to it would mean a huge relief to him. But this makes him turn even more torn, incomplete and put together by pieces which don’t fit at all. Like he is an impossible mixture, like an experiment which cannot work and is designed to fail. He realized that this is what he is, he will never change and he has to live with it (or not live at all). Nobody can take this away from him, even if he found eternal love, his soulmate or whatever, this is eternal( “this is my line, this is eternal”). He realizes that this is him (“my line”) but the bigger part of him tries to fight himself, to change him, tries to do what is impossible, although he is aware of it. This is why he will never be completely happy, satisfied or complete in any way. Might also be that this incomplete feeling is caused by his surrounding, the people, who think he is ‘wrong’ and try to complete him but do not find the lost pieces (this might be why he’s speaking in passive “every day another small piece can’t be found”), but I do’t think so. It could be a mixture of both, though… All this and more of course has revealed to him by now, somehow it does all make sense to him, in a logical way, but he is trapped or more likely lost in his own world so bad no one can get a clue of what it feels like to be him, what he feels, thinks, the way he thinks and so on. Others just think he’s gone mad, because they don’t understand him, so it’s like he’s spaking in tongues,if they dare to listen to him at all (“still speaking in these tongues”). It makes him feel different from all of these people of course because they make him feel he’s speaking another language or thinking in another language which nobody else knows(“while understood by no one”). So his prayers just disappear, nobody hears him, listens to him, can help him getting this feeling off of him. When he sings about how “they cut the cast, the music, and the lights” it is very clear, I think, that his isolated position he was put into by the people not understanding him, not seeing him as a human being of the same value as everyone of them, maybe not seeing him as a human being at all, tortures him and causes a feeling of having to live a life with less opportunities, less joy, just less of everything “they” have. He could also see it in such a way as god or the highest power decided he has to live without this, it depends on if you do believe in the existence of god or not. It’s possible by combining, like god causes nobody is understanding him, wanted it to be like this, you know… So, I guess that’s enough for now, although I could go on like this for ages…maybe I should structure this, but you might have gotten my clue anyway, if you were patient enough to read all of this…err, and one thing: english’s not my native langugae, so don’t bother any kinds of mistakes…hopefully I don’t repeat myself too often… |
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| Satanic Surfers – ... And The Cheese Fell Down Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| Yepp, it's just like you don't think people who you can lean on to might also be weak sometimes. You think you're not the right perosn to help out or you're not able or strong enough, but you come to realize that, even if you can't always cope with yourself, you'll always be there for a friend who needs you. | |
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