| Imagine Dragons – I Was Me Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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| Imagine Dragons – I Was Me Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I very much like this song. To me it seems this song is about changing and/or recovering, and having lost someone because of whatever they now has to change/recover from. It could be depression, it could be having done something terrible, or it could be something else entirely. That's up to the listener to guess at, I suppose. :) "It's just another day It's just another year" ""One step at a time" they say "One trip and you're back that way"" The days and years has just passed by, without much change, it's just the same over and over again. The two next lines give the idea that he's trying to recover from, or go back to, something, but it's going slowly, hence there's not much change from one day to the next. "I don't recognize these eyes, I don't recognize these hands Please believe me when I tell you, That this is not who I am". He doesn't recognize himself in what he's been through or done, and he needs to find himself again. "If I recover, will you take me back again?" Whatever he's been through, it seems he lost someone as a cause of it. So he's hoping he could repair that if he becomes himself again. The "take me back again?" part sort of hints of this lost person being a lover, though it could posibly be a close friend or family in my opinion. "I'm just another, trying hard to fit right in But my photographs remind me of who I used to be If only I could go back when I, I was me" He's trying hard to fit back into who he was, back into society and a normal way of living. Fighting to make that recovery or change, basically. But he's often reminded that things used to be better, and so he's wishing he could go back to that time, when things were good and well. "I'll try hard to make this ride I'll try hard to win this fight "One step at a time", they say "One trip, and you're back that way"" Same thing here, got to keep trying and fighting to make that recovery, or change himself. "Give me strength to fight Help me feel alive again Make me whole inside Instead, this hole inside is killing me And I'm begging you" He's hoping and asking for strength from whoever he lost, this recovery is tough, and he needs them to help him through. The last line works with "If I recover would you take me back again?", so he's begging for them to forgive him for whatever happened, to realize he's trying to change, and that he truly needs and wants them back. So there you go! That'll be my interpretation. Excuse any poor english by the way, It's not my native. :) |
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