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Our Finest Year Lyrics
I am bending made of steel,
and I am stumbling towards something real.
How can you forget this feeling
Of standing straight while the world is reeling?
Don' t leave me here alone;
You're as close as it gets to home.
Don't look down; you might fall.
Life made rookies of us all in our finest year.
Don't wait up; we'll be fine.
Somehow we might get it right in our finest year.
I am hopeful full of doubt;
And I am trying to work this whole thing out.
So how can you just sit there sleeping
When your world's on fire, and your chest is beating?
And I wanna think you feel the same.
Don't look down; you might fall.
Life made rookies of us all in our finest year.
Don't wait up; we'll be fine.
Somehow, we might get it right in our finest year.
In this moment while you're breathing,
If the future leaves you needing,
Will you be the one who stares as your life just slips away?
Don't leave me here alone;
You're as close as it gets to home.
I'll be there if you fall.
Love made suckers of us all.
Don't look down; you might fall.
Life made rookies of us all in our finest year.
Don't wait up; we'll be fine.
Somehow, we might get it right in our finest year.
and I am stumbling towards something real.
How can you forget this feeling
Of standing straight while the world is reeling?
You're as close as it gets to home.
Life made rookies of us all in our finest year.
Don't wait up; we'll be fine.
Somehow we might get it right in our finest year.
And I am trying to work this whole thing out.
So how can you just sit there sleeping
When your world's on fire, and your chest is beating?
Life made rookies of us all in our finest year.
Don't wait up; we'll be fine.
Somehow, we might get it right in our finest year.
If the future leaves you needing,
Will you be the one who stares as your life just slips away?
You're as close as it gets to home.
Love made suckers of us all.
Life made rookies of us all in our finest year.
Don't wait up; we'll be fine.
Somehow, we might get it right in our finest year.
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Such an amazing song. I'm surprised that there are no comments on this one.
So well written and the line "Life made rookies of us all in our finest year." is amazing and oh so true. Even at their best, nobody is anywhere near perfect.
Anyway, I've always thought this song to be about someone that's just getting into the real life. Right out of college or maybe even High School.
"Don't look down; you might fall" is saying that you shouldn't doubt yourself and you should always 'keep your head up' and some would say. If you do doubt yourself, you will get nowhere.
"Don't wait up; we'll be fine." is stating how you should never wait around for others if they're holding you up. Just go at the pace you need to go, and your other friends will go at theirs.
"Somehow, we might get it right in our finest year." means that if you keep working at whatever you're trying to accomplish, you will eventually get there, and it will be your "finest year" because of the feeling of success that you feel.
I always sort of thought that it was that year BEFORE they made it out into the real world. Then they realized that even it wasn't perfect.