When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
When the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
High up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
If you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face
And I
Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face
And I
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
When the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
High up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
If you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face
And I
Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face
And I
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Lyrics submitted by SMUSER17024245, edited by aimish, ItsNotHard, Peace411
Fix You Lyrics as written by Guy Rupert Berryman Christopher Anthony John Martin
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song seems, to me, to be saying that you should just go for it ("if you never try, you'll never know").
Then the chorus that says "lights will guide you home, and ignite you're bones" seems to say that it'll all be ok in the end and that you will do what is right....
I might be totally wrong but that's what it means to me.
Also, on another note, this is a great song and the people who have only heard it from the OC have missed half of the song as it is 4:54 long and the OC only plays 2:35 of it. There's a big build up at the end and a full band part instead of just the organ and singing that you hear in the OC.....
You are explaining the lyrics as they are show
Luv the thoughts
You are explaining the lyrics as they are show
Luv the thoughts
You are explaining the lyrics as they are show
Luv the thoughts
"When you're too in love to let it go
If you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth."
When I was going through a breakup with my ex, these lyrics struck such a comforting chord with me, because I was trying to help myself realize I could do so much better than him, so I had to let him go in search for a better guy that I deserve.
The lines:
When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
When high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
it almost sounds like a list to me? Of all the worst things that can happen to us. i think there's a subtler meaning behind this song... that all grief is the same, and we all go through it, you're not as alone as you feel.
rest in peace sushi, i hope you're happier now... i hope you know, i was with you to the end, and that i loved you very much ♥
IMO, you hit the nail on the head. The lines you listed are indeed simply --and profoundly-- a list if what might make one grieve. This song isn't bound by a specific scenario, and in that lies its depth and power. It allows the listener to identify with his or her own reality and experiences... A scenario as unique as the listener him/herself.
Long ago I read something beautifully profound: "The best definition of heartbreak is when a dream dies." The athlete who suffers a career ending injury. The son whose mother has passed away. The woman who is in the midst of a divorce. The business owner who closes shop one last time. All can prompt profound grief and sadness.
Those of us who care for and love family and friends who are suffering such sorrow are often seeking ways we can "fix" them. If only because we hate to see them hurt so much.
I just want to hold him and let him know it'll be okay, but at the same time, I want him to let me know that it will be okay, since I'm moving out of state in a week. ( miles away.) I'm going to let him know how I feel before I go, though. We both need to be fixed.
This song makes me feel weak... limp... relaxed, but like I can't do anything. Like someone needs to hold me up. It makes me shake. It makes me want to love.
Tears are streaming down my face.
How are you now?
But, I think that this song is one that is trying to tell you that it's going to be okay; no matter what's going on.
Me and my gf were madly in love these past two years of college. I left one weekend for a vacation, and when I got back she had changed. No other guy, no lies, or anything like that. She wanted to live life on her own. She wanted to find out who she was inside. There were no warnings, no signs. Just like that one day; all over.
We tried to hold on, but it was too hard. She couldn't hold on to a relationship, and I didn't know how to not want more when I was with her; I had her, but I couldn't keep her. I could hug her, but I couldn't hold her.
When I did, it meant different things to us. "When you get what you want, but not what you need". ...yeah. Definitely.
I had to cut off our contact and walk away, it was getting bad for us; especially me. She thinks I've let go, and that I'm gone for good; but that's not true. She needs the freedom to choose her own life path, even if that means finding someone else. It's tough, but I love that girl that much.
Unrequited love has nothing on unconditional love.
You're a good person and I hope you've found the love you deserve!
i think the song is more about someone trying very hard to do things right in his life but somehow he can never be good enough (or so he feels). he settles for the second best. [When you try your best, but you dont succeed; When you get what you want, but not what you need]
he gets so tired of everything and feels in despair because it seems like everything he has done was in vain and sometimes he feels like giving up. but at the same time, he really hopes for someone or something to save him from giving up totally, or to guide him to somewhere where everything seems more familiar (hence the reference about lights will guide you home), and for someone to tell him that he can put everything right again..
but that being said, i don't quite understand the "and ignite your bones" part.. is it some reference to being reborn, and hence everything seems right again?
"Lights will guide you home" like taking you to heaven or something.
"And ignite your bones" - is it a relation to a crematorium or something?
I know that's quite a depressing understanding
It means that you will find the path to bring peace to your soul, that will bring life back to your body.....that will relight the fire inside of you