It's For the Best

This song is one that speaks to me very clearly. It's about depression but not in a broad sense. It's when you're in your late teens or early adult life and suddenly everything in your world changes for the bad. Triggered by a major event, it's all downhill from there. You're trying to make sense of it, trying to tell yourself it was for the best, that everything happens for a reason, but it lasts so long and you learn the hard way so quickly in everything that you have to stop lying to yourself. After months turn into years and nothing gets better, that event is no longer something that makes you stronger.. It's killing you instead. It drains the life from you. You want to forget it all even happened. You were bright eyed before and naive and it's that naivity that made you believe it was all for a good reason. But sometimes life happens and there is no reason. It doesn't make you better it just hurts. Before that thing happened you were a stronger person and you knew more because your identity was in tact. Now you just want to make it through and make sense of it. I think it's something not everyone feels in their life, nor should they, but if you do the song will make perfect sense. That said, things DO get better. You just have to put yourself around people who see the good things in you that you thought you lost. You'll come to believe in yourself again. :)

oh my gosh, the best song. really, i couldnt get the lyrics "...i was scared to death of eternity, i was saved by grace but destroyed by naivety" for a month. seriously, this has become my favorite song cause it just shows how eager you are when you're younger and how you neglect the real truth in front of you. you just continue to lie to yourself. so yeah, damn good song!

and i've become content with this life that i lead where i drink to much and don't believe in much of anything and i lie to myself and say "it's for the best."

i think that this is most definatly a break up song. i also think there is a catch to it, he regrets ever breaking up...

simply genius.

being of the college age, this song strikes me as one that is about growing up, and having your eyes opened to everything, and questioning everything you used to belive in. You realize how sheltered you were growing up, and how much more there is to the world..

I think this song has a lot to due with reconciling your future with the past. It could be about a break-up or about something broader, like making a break with the things you're familiar with and facing a future with a lot more uncertainty.

Honestly, I don't know how much this song was written on a spiritual basis, but it definately sounds like me with my christian life. Right after I became a christian, I was very strong in my faith and very conscious about all my actions and thoughts, but as time has gone on, all that excitement has died away. I've grown content with the fact that I drink and smoke way too much just for the hell of it, and that I don't have passion about anything anymore. I get conscious about political thought and how it contrasts to my spiritual thought. It makes it so easy to disregard everything I every thought I knew about God, myself and christianity. I feel like I have more common sense about worldy things, but I feel like I've lost my sense about spiritual things. This song just really says how I feel about all of this. It's like I had an out of body experience and became the guy who wrote this song for a little bit...

its kinda funny... but the christians always have the most to say and to them all songs have the same central theme >> pretty much of that he just explained blah blah God saved the world and 'worldly' things are bad blah blah

and i've become content with this life that i lead where i drink to much and don't believe in much of anything and i lie to myself and say "it's for the best."

i agree with the break-up idea, but i think the above part is just about apathy. to me it means slipping into a state where you don't really care, there's nothing to believe in and you try to convince yourself that you're happy like that.

I think this song is about 'growing up' in his beliefs. However, he still wished he had that child like faith.

and it takes more time than i've ever had drains the life from me makes me want to forget as young as i was, i felt older back then more disciplined, stronger and certain

This to me shows how when he was younger, he was convinced of his beliefs. He new the distinctions between right and wrong and he longs for the certainty about his beliefs.

but i was scared to death of eternity i was saved by grace but destroyed by naivety and i lied to myself and said it was for the best

The 'saved by grace' part of this shows that he was a Christian. However, he felt naive to the world. This destroyed him. So, he looked for 'logical' answers. He lied to himself cause he new of the truth behind his beliefs but he convinced himself it was for the best because he was scared of the idea of eternity. I think a lot of Christians can relate to this verse.

so now faith is replaced with a logic so cold i've disregarded what i was now that i'm older and i know much more than i did back then but the more i learn the more i can't understand

Now his beliefs have changed but they are cold. He nows more. He is not naive anymore but he still doesn't understand. To me this means that things just don't make sense when you take God out.

and i've become content with this life that i lead where i drink to much and don't believe in much of anything and i lie to myself and say "it's for the best."

He is comfortable with his life. But he is still lying to himself by denying his faith. It just one of those things where you know you are wrong but the hardest thing is to admit it.

we're moving forward, but holding ourselves back and we're waiting on something that will never come

They are going ahead in life but holding themselves back from having a relationship with God. I think what they are waiting for is death, the end, but they know it will never come because we exist for eternity. That which is his biggest fear.