4 Meanings
Add Yours
Share
Precious Pain Lyrics
Everybody's got a hunger
No matter where they are
Everybody clings to their own fear
Everybody hides some scar
Precious pain
Empty and cold but it keeps me alive
I gave it my soul so that I could survive
Keeping me safe in these chains
Precious pain
Everybody's got a reason
To abandon their plan
How can I think of tomorrow
With my sorrow in hand
Precious pain
Empty and cold but it keeps me alive
I gave it my soul so that I could survive
Keeping me safe in these chains
Precious pain
Each road that I walk down
Reminds me of you
This whole town is haunted
There'll never be anything new
Precious pain
Empty and cold but it keeps me alive
I gave it my soul so that I could survive
Keeping me safe in these chains
Precious pain
Song Info
Submitted by
ice On Jun 08, 2001
More Melissa Etheridge
I'm The Only One
Come To My Window
Like The Way I Do
An Unusual Kiss
I Need To Wake Up
The meaning that I get from this is everybody has a hunger or scar or deep pain that they cling to and from her perspective even though it's "empty and cold" it still keeps her alive because its all that she has is this pain and in a sense it keeps her " safe in these chains" as she puts it since it's the only thing she has to rely on since there is nothing or nobody else.
In a nutshell I it's about longing and loss in love.
In a nutshell I it's about longing and loss in love.
@Ron34 I think it's about all pain.that's all some of us have and so that's what keeps us alive"keeps me going"....
@Ron34 I think it's about all pain.that's all some of us have and so that's what keeps us alive"keeps me going"....
I think that She sings about some sort of self harm... not neccessarily cutting, but just punishing herself to stay alive.. to feel something....
She's like saying everyone has a hunger and longing that they keep hidden like a scar,but they keep that "pain" close to them cause it keeps them from being lonely.
I think thy when you've experienced pain in ur life u hold on to it like it's precious=1 bcoz like happy times the sad time r a part of who we r .pain can make u grow stronger & helps u servive that pain deep within ur soul.I believe scars from pain never leave us they're our own cross to bare =the chains r a memory what I learnt from my pain.Thoses chains of my pain keep me safe.