@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Have you ever been so lonely
There is no one there to hold?
Just pull me in or disown me
And then climb inside
My arms are open wide
Have a look inside
It is not that I am scared to learn
Just why I'm empty inside
Hold my hand or show some concern
If I live or die
My eyes are open wide
Help me look inside
Singing ha de de ha ha de de ah
I hear the water drip from the faucet
It's sweetly falling in tune
I'm gently closing the closet and I
Fall to the floor
And crawl to my room
The thought of ending it soon
Just let me sleep in my room
Hear me cry! Cry! Cry!
I hear a knock at the front door
Don't come in!
I try to look at you
But I can't stop shaking
Leave me alone, just go away
Mother I'm so scared, I'm so scared
An empty bed and all of the sheets are gone
They're wrapped around me and you
All is quiet but the drop of my gun
'Cause I, I want to belong, to someone
But maybe life's not for everyone
Ha de de ha ha de de ah
There is no one there to hold?
Just pull me in or disown me
And then climb inside
My arms are open wide
Have a look inside
It is not that I am scared to learn
Just why I'm empty inside
Hold my hand or show some concern
If I live or die
My eyes are open wide
Help me look inside
Singing ha de de ha ha de de ah
I hear the water drip from the faucet
It's sweetly falling in tune
I'm gently closing the closet and I
Fall to the floor
And crawl to my room
The thought of ending it soon
Just let me sleep in my room
Hear me cry! Cry! Cry!
I hear a knock at the front door
Don't come in!
I try to look at you
But I can't stop shaking
Leave me alone, just go away
Mother I'm so scared, I'm so scared
An empty bed and all of the sheets are gone
They're wrapped around me and you
All is quiet but the drop of my gun
'Cause I, I want to belong, to someone
But maybe life's not for everyone
Ha de de ha ha de de ah
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Black Orchid Lyrics as written by Justin S Furstenfeld
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Hekifier, I agree with you in so far as that's what the song is about. Justin says it in Argue With A Tree. But can't you at least appreciate another point of view? Creativity is about drawing inspiration from many sources, so can't you at least notice that there are other ideas?
Justin wrote this song when he was 14. Many kids question their sexual identity around that age. So, it's an aspect to consider. I'm not saying that it's definitely in the song, or that it is at all, but it is something to in the very least think about.
I mean, if you're closed minded enough to only accept one opinion, you'll never fully understand anything, will you?
Thumbs up to this.
Justin wrote this song.. When he got turned down for prom.
It's about how much it hurt him, that some girl said no.
If you think I'm joking, as him yourself...
Though as a blue october fan for a good 12 years, I'm noticing him changing what songs were wrote about what..
Just like Colorado 5751. >_>
:-) Anyways, I like the song. When I'm super fucked in the head, I like to listen to it and know, hey..I could've been turned down at the prom :-P give myself a good laugh, then wallow in my sorrow, because it is worse. :-P
"But maybe life's not for everyone"
maybe it isn't. this song is most definitely about suicide. how it's not fake sometimes. it's not always for attention.
i have trouble listening to this song sometimes. its pretty apperent what its about
this is my favorite out of any song that blue october has ever written... its self-explanitory
good song...hard to listen too. ive been to the point where i felt i had nothin, never been to the point to think about suicide but durin a time like that this is not a song to listen to!!!
I heard Justin, the lead singer, do a commentary about it. He wrote it when he was 14 as sort of a confession to his mother so she'd know what was going on with him. Makes me cry again just thinking about it.
when the lead singer was 14 he wrote this in a letter to his mother because he couldnt say it in words
wow...this song is deep...I have been listening to it a lot latly...I am not suicidal...but have wondered what it would be like after if I did...but I have tons to live for...I have been living for a year on my own...and I dont mean in my own place.. I mean I moved away from my friends and what not and now it sems like I'm all on my own...so this song spoke to me there...but I am happy to say I am about to move back
well, i have to say. honestly, since no one here knows me. ive tried to kill myself. i must be a failure at life....and death because apparently it didnt go too well. BUT! if i were feeling deathly manic that day, seeing as im bipolar-much like justin (lead singer)-and i listened to this song. it would make it so much easier to chunk the toaster in the bath tub. if ya get the jist of what im saying.
apparently i think its about suicide. or maybe an attempted suicide. like a drug overdose. justin used to be involved in herione and whatnot. so when he says "i couldnt stop shaking" herione cough cough. it does that to ya. first hand XP. haha. this song=suicide. point blank.