This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Beauty lies inside the eye of another youthful dream
That doesn't sell it's soul for self-esteem
That's not plasticine
Beauty lies inside desire and every wayward heart redeemed
That doesn't sell it's soul for self-esteem
That's not plasticine
Don't forget to be the way you are [Repeat: x4]
The only thing you can rely on is that you can't rely on anything
Don't go and sell your soul for self-esteem
Don't be plasticine
Don't forget to be the way you are [Repeat: x4]
And don't forget to be the way you are [Repeat: x4]
The way you are
That doesn't sell it's soul for self-esteem
That's not plasticine
Beauty lies inside desire and every wayward heart redeemed
That doesn't sell it's soul for self-esteem
That's not plasticine
Don't forget to be the way you are [Repeat: x4]
The only thing you can rely on is that you can't rely on anything
Don't go and sell your soul for self-esteem
Don't be plasticine
Don't forget to be the way you are [Repeat: x4]
And don't forget to be the way you are [Repeat: x4]
The way you are
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People take the saying "be yourself" way too seriously! As humans each and every one of us is unique and complex beyond simplistic comprehension. For example, I have many facets to my personality. I have a hardcore, moshing metal head, talkative, weird and crazy side to me. Then I also have a pro peace and human rights, quiet, poetic, Coldplay/ CrashCarBurn/ Placebo loving side to me. There's so much more to me and I consider it all apart of me and what makes me who I am. So to say that if we were all ourselves we wouldnt have any friends, sounds kinda ludicrous to me. Why wouldnt we have friends? Yeah, sure some people pretend around their friends, but thats not everyone. There's a difference between being yourself and being a different version of yourself. And true friends love you for who you are and not who you pretend to be.
As I see it, this song is about not moulding yourself according to other peoples expectations of you. Dont succumb to social norms and peer pressure. Being what society deems to be acceptable or beautiful might boost yourself esteem, but it fades with youth and then you are left with nothing, but yourself. So its better to love who you are and not rely on others to make you feel worthy.
Great song by a great band! :)
Mmm I like this
That said, the lounge version to this song is better suited, if you ask me
Plasticine is like a clay that can be molded into any shape and size. Kind of how some people change everything about themselves just so other people approve of them. Selling your soul for self-esteem. Typical problem found in teens. I know the pressure of wanting to fit in so this song speaks to me.
nice!<br /> <br /> thanks!bec the song's meaning got more clear for me.<br /> <br /> I used to be like that, but I am changed now...need no body else to gain something for myself.
This is saying how people are attracted superficial people, who only care about looks, when its whats inside that counts. People are so obsessed with being someone that they're not that they change like plasticine from situation to situation.
Always be yourself
I agree with duff here.
"Beauty lies inside the eye of another youthful dream that doesnt sell its soul for self-esteem"
This has pretty much got to mean , what people think is beautiful is just young niave dreams .. the real "beautiful" people are the ones who can just be themselves no matter what.
Great song - as everyone else has said it's about true beauty residing in someone who has the courage to actually be themselves.
its like he's saying "take my advice, i know what its like"
its saying basicaly be yourself and dont let other people "mould" you into something other than what you want
of course, they didn't make this song because it's obvious that you should "be yourself" since that is such the favourite of cliches. we've been told over and over again to be ourselves, yet a whole amount of kids aren't following it... i don't blame them though--- if you think about it, it's extremely difficult trying not to rely on role models when you're still young enough to have your personality moulded by others every single minute anyway.
Agreed. These songs kind of annoying me meaning-wise, because no matter what is said, no one is going to be completely themselves around people. If I was completly myself I'd have no friends. I put foward most of my personality but the things that are too 'extreme' you have to hide. Although on the other hand when people are just being a certain way to gain acceptance, and they're being exactly like other people ofa certain group that's pathetic. But kids can't help it really.