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Doesn't come down when she's called
"It's time for breakfast."
Mama can't get down those halls
Fast enough to see
Glass is sprayed across the floor
From the broken window
She can't breathe anymore
Can't deny what we know
They're gonna find you, just believe
You're not a person; you're a disease
All these lives that you've been taking
Deep inside, my heart is breaking
Broken homes from separation
Don't you know it's violation?
It's so wrong, but you'll see
Never gonna let you take my world from me
All outside these walls they know you're breathing
But you ain't comin' in
(But you ain't comin' in)
Posters hung on building walls
Of missing faces
Months go by without the calls
No clues or traces
They're gonna find you, just believe
You're not a person; you're a disease
All these lives that you've been taking
Deep inside, my heart is breaking
Broken homes from separation
Don't you know it's violation?
It's so wrong, but you'll see
Never gonna let you take my world from me
All outside these walls they know you're breathing
But you ain't comin' in
Shed the light on all the ones who never thought they would become
A father, mother, asking why this world can be so cold
Doesn't come down when she's called
"It's time for breakfast."
The memories begin to fall
She asks, "When will I be free?"
All these lives that you've been taking
Deep inside, my heart is breaking
Broken homes from separation
Don't you know it's violation?
It's so wrong, but you'll see
Never gonna let you take my world from me
All outside these walls they know you're breathing
But you ain't comin' in
All these lives that you've been taking
Deep inside, my heart is breaking
All these lives that you've been taking
Deep inside, my heart is breaking
All these lives that you've been taking
Deep inside, my heart is breaking
All outside these walls they know you're breathing
All outside these walls they know you're breathing
But you ain't comin' in
This song is pretty amazing. It's obviously about child abduction, but at the same time, it doesn't sound like it's about random kidnapping. The line that goes "Broken homes from seperation, don't you see it's violation?" Make it seem like it's a deranged father kidnapping the child from the mother who got sole custody after the seperation. shrugs That's what I got from it. I'm wondering if this was written from some sort of personal experience, or just based on things that happen every day.
This song is about child abduction. The first stanza involves a mother's worst nightmare: starting off a day like any other only to find out that their child is missing. This song is to serve as a warning that although the abducter gets away with it for now, eventually they'll get caught hense the "walls may know you're breathing." Maybe guilt will devour them in the long run?
See everyone thinks this is about kidnapping, and altough I think that could be true, I feel like it's about a girl who is tired of her parents fighting or just issues at home, so she runs away. I know it seems like a strech, but I feel like that's what it's about.
@LoveIsTheAnswer2 Why would the window be broken inward, if the girl ran away? "Glass is sprayed across the floor From the broken window"
@LoveIsTheAnswer2 Why would the window be broken inward, if the girl ran away? "Glass is sprayed across the floor From the broken window"
This song makes me think of everything Joseph Kony is doing. It describes everything perfectly. So impactful!
I loveeee this song!!! Its so catchy....
but i'm still tryin to figure out what it means...to me the meaning should be obvious...but the more i listen to it the more i see different meanings....what do yaw think it means
Everybody try to step back from the abduction interpretation and think about drugs, drug pushers, and the stories of people ruined by them. Also look at how some strong willed individuals refuse to let this disease come into their lives. Then listen to the song again. It gets clearer.
Everybody try to step back from the abduction interpretation and think about drugs, drug pushers, and the stories of people ruined by them. Also look at how some strong willed individuals refuse to let this disease come into their lives. Then listen to the song again. It gets clearer.
I didn't get abduction at all when I first heard it. I'm going through a messy divorce, so I feel I've been interpreting songs through my hurt and getting a much different meaning than most. The same was for the Sunday's Here's where the story ends. I interpreted it like this: Dosn't come down for breakfast when she calls because he hasn't come home again from the night before and the running seeing the broken glass is the last time she can handle it needing to face the reality, "Can't deny what we know," Everyone around her...
I didn't get abduction at all when I first heard it. I'm going through a messy divorce, so I feel I've been interpreting songs through my hurt and getting a much different meaning than most. The same was for the Sunday's Here's where the story ends. I interpreted it like this: Dosn't come down for breakfast when she calls because he hasn't come home again from the night before and the running seeing the broken glass is the last time she can handle it needing to face the reality, "Can't deny what we know," Everyone around her knew all along, but turned the other way not wanting to get involved. She can't breathe anymore and go on with this life of infidelity and alcoholism and disrespect. They're gonna find you just believe, you're not a person you're a disease meaning people are beginning to figure you out and know who you really are with your closest friends always seeing through him and he hates them the most because he knows I trust them and listen to them. A sociopath can't handle being figured out and will go to many extremes for the truth not to come out to the woman he thinks he loves. He only loves himself and is incapable of loving anyone else and in a divorce he will take all down with him, including his children because it then only becomes about winning and money. Hurting and torturing and spreading lies about the person since she dosn't want him anymore he has no use for her anymore. He broke her family along with her heart and she almost gave up until he used the children to get back at her and it's wrong and violated them that way. Because he messed with her babies it gave her strength and he will no longer take her world and your breath is all you have left to her and you will not come back in her life ever. Outsiders who I define as anyone who won't care to really know what life is like with a person who has this incurable disease had to be shut out completely, hence the posters and unanswered calls, no clues or traces....no one knew where I was mentally or physically. I have to believe one day they will be able to come to terms with who he really is and shed light on what has become of me, because I never thought this is what it would become with him and instead of holding on to your anger of me not able to speak anymore I needed your silence for once. I call myself for breakfast, but I can't face it, the memories are all lies. Look what he has done to so many lives and all without a care or thought and I am broken, can't you see? He caused so much pain for me, it seems to never end and just when I think It can't get any worse it does, not knowing if I will ever be free of his pain. There has been so many people supporting me, but not one being a family member and all because for the first time in my life I finally stood up to them and shut them out for not just doing one thing for me and that's shut up and just hug me! They couldn't do it and now I feel betrayed and as they call me selfish and unforgiving they should look in the mirror. Although he will be a part of my life forever he aint never coming in because I know he's not a person but a disease that will try to continue to fool the world. I hope my children will be fooled because I don't want them knowing who he really is and break them too. Please God don't let them be broken like me. That's how I interpreted this song and I love it, it speaks for me.....thank you.
I keeo meaning to ask my friend what it's about. He was in Chris' band before he went on Idol, and I know he knows what it's about. I'll try to remember to do that next time I see him.
Wow this is such an awesome song. It's fast, catchy, and has awesome lyrics. My old favorite Daughtry song was Over You, but this song has taken its place. Isn't this the only song by Daughtry that isn't about love?
This song just sticks in my head. The lyrics are bizarre and I'm guessing they come from some kind of personal experience of kidnapping. It's not a very happy song but it's eye-opening on how scarry kidnapping is. I kind of agree that maybe the kidnapper is the father because of the line about it being a broken home. But then again it sounds like a serial kidnapper because of the "all these lives that you've been taking."
broken home doesnt neccesarily mean divorced parents, it can mean an abducted child, which is obviously what this song is about. Divorce is not a factor in this song, at least i dont see how it would be......posters hung up?? ya not divorce lol
I deffinitely think it's about child abduction and how it breaks the home in that sense. If you've ever been around a family who's had a missing child, it's terrible to see the torture they go through until they find them.. and even then it's not always good news. I think this song represents that torture and it serves as a reminder that those people who kidnap and/or murder children will be caught in the end.