I Know the Feeling

This has to be one of my favorite songs on this cd. They did an excellent job with this song. Amazing.

i love the lyrics of this song. especially the part that says "my hearts a hole that needs to be constantly filled with love" and the part that says "i know the feeling of being all alone, so lets drink to the fact that we're not" i can totally relate

Lovely lyrics.

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I see this as they are talking to someone who doesn't know Christ as their lord and savior. They are trying to led him to Christ.

Here, "So take us in... we'll show you something you won't ever forget." I think they are saying just listen to them and they'll show you Christ. With the "This life's a road, no place is home" I think they are talking about how life is unexpected, and that nothing earthly will make you happy or solve the problems life presents, cuz you'll just continue wanting more. "My heart's a hole that needs to constantly be filled with love" is saying that their heart needs Jesus, cuz he is everlasting love that won't ever stop, so he will continually fill their heart with love.

We are all born with a damaged soul because of Adam and Eve's sin. And we all are trying to fill that hole in our hearts, in our lives. Some fill it with family, your wife/husband or teenage sweet hearts, drugs, booze, porn, etc. But all those things wont fill it and when they fail your broken. But God, Jesus is the solution to that hole in your heart and he will constantly fill that hole with love (the Holy Spirit).

I think this song is not overtly about God or Christ, but it may be referencing accepting a family of people who can relate to what you feel which could definitely apply to a religious group.

Basically I feel like this song is the heart of the To Write Love on Her Arms movement (myspace.com/towriteloveonherarms).

The speaker is talking to someone who is struggling with depression, and thoughts of suicide (It's been a while since you've felt like you've been home/Your life's just flesh and bone ...The one thing that hurts more than your life/Is to wake up one more time alone/It's to wake up one more time alive). Basically he's saying, "Yeah it hurts like hell to wake up and have to live through a day of this again, I know--I feel it too... But, at least we're suffering through this together" (I know the feeling of being alone/So let's drink to the fact that we're not).

The second part of the song is offering ways to cope (So take us in, we'll stop you dead/ We'll show you something you won't ever forget). This could be either talking about drugs, or a community. I think really it easily could be a good, wholesome community like a church of support group, or a drug culture. The reason I say that is because he follows is with (my heart's a hole that needs to constantly be filled with love). He doesn't offer a permanent solution, he just says, "I know the solution is love," but he leaves it up to the person to decide where to get that love.

He also offers artistic expression as an outlet for restless feelings of this nature (This time it's all that I've got Words hit the page like gunshots My stomach's left in a knot My pride is left here to rot It's been a while since I've felt this restless By definition it's depressing but I'm alright)

The overall message of this song I think is just to convince the person that they are not alone, and that someone understands how they feel--which are two of the main reasons people commit suicide: feeling alone and misunderstood in their depression. It has the feel of an intervention by someone just as confused as the listener, but asking the person to hold on at at least explore their options before making a final decision.