In The End

dammit, no comments, this song rocks. yes, anyway. i think its about how you can't plan things that are going to happen and you can't change the past so you just have to live day by day and take things as they come and take responsibility for what you do... or not..i dunno

THANK YOU NINJAMONKEYS! i was thinking the same thing, 'where's all the comments?' I expected TLE to get thousands of them! One of my favourite all time bands, as soon as i got the the 'TLE' page, i went to find this song coz to put it simply, like all their work, it fucking rocks, but i just love it so much! Well, i agree with you, that's what i've always thought the song to be about. I thought along the lines of the same thing, you can't plan your actions and what each day will bring, so you have to suck it in. 'In the end, you can't hide away' kind of means, at the end of the day, you have to fess up to your actions, and that you can't hide from the 'bad days' in our lives, forever coz their still gonna be their anyway: "in the end it's just another day" that's what i thought, i don't know if i'm right/wrong, but thats my two cents.

This song rocks

I think the lack of comments on here, is that not alot of Aussies know about this site... spread the word!

haha, I'm an American and proud to say one of my favourite bands are The Living End...Austrailia doesn't have TLE alllllllll to themselves :)

This song,lately, has been on repeat on my stereo...I think the meaning has already been said well by ninjamonkeys and CoinXOperatedXGirl .

Yeah agreed with Andro. Love the song and the harmonics especially the intro:) Well guys im an aussie and just found this site!ill pass the word around...I love living end - there one of the best bands in the world...and im proud that they came from aus! Rock on

im aussie too, and i love this site! and the living end!!

to me, this song means that you should never think that a certain thing should never make you regret things. no matter how big the problem is or how long it will take, in the end everything will always work out. words to live by :P

First of all i would like to say that I am from Canada and I like this band a lot. A friend of mine recommended them to me a few years ago after she found them on myspace. I don't know anyone else who has heard of this band though. I doubt they get played on the radio here at all. I don't think the problem is Australians not knowing about this site, what we should focus on is letting the world know about The Living End.

Now, I think that the other comments here have a pretty good general idea of what the song is about. If i were to sum up this song i'd say that it is about dealing with life and how confusing ("trying hard to understand what happened yesterday")and frustrating ("have you ever wondered why the truth is hard to say? why must it be this way?")it can be sometimes and how sometimes there is just no avoiding the crap that comes at you ("there's no explanation or a plan that you can make and you can't hide away") and you aren't always going to get what you want ("but everything that you want is not gonna go your way")but in the end that's just life and you need to deal with it.

that is what the general concept of the song is but as a songwriter i know that many songs are often about something specific and then generalized to make them more relatable to the audience. If i had to take a stab at what this song is really about i'd have to say it's about job layoffs or getting fired from a job over some sort of misunderstanding or something that wasn't your fault in a "shit happens" sort of way. I say this because the part that says "powers above us show that you love us don't take me away" would probably be viewed by many as some sort of religious appeal to god to not make you die for your sins or something. but judging by songs like "how do we know" and "raise the alarm" this doesn't seem to be the type of band who would write about something like that. other possible "powers" that the song writer could be referring to is the government or the higher ups in a company and since this band has a lot of songs about work ("long live the weekend", "roll on", "i want a day") i'm guessing it could be about working in a place and knowing that you won't be working there much longer and it's not going to be your choice or just finding out that you lost your job. it could all fit if you look at each verse:

verse 1 - about how companies will often lie about layoffs coming and then suddenly roll out the guillotine and cut 50 people at a time and how sometimes the reasons for the layoffs can be corrupt. for instance, they say they are losing money when really the people in charge are pocketing it all.

verse 2 - the part about broken deals could be referring to the contract signed at the beginning of employment and now they're breaking the deal and giving you a package to compensate.

verse 3 and 4 - about how you couldn't really do anything to avoid it and it's not what you wanted but that's just how it is sometimes.

anyways. i'm not saying that's what the song is about it's just a possibility. it could just be about the general meaning described earlier or it could have a deeper meaning. there are a lot of songs out there that are about death or breaking up that are based on events where no one died and no one broke up.