1.000 People

This song is about someone really, really insecure and fucked up. He (or she) fears reality so much, that he just want to give up immediately, right now, no matter what it takes, even death is a worth choice. Maybe he's suffering some kind of paranoia, or schizophrenia but the fact is, he's anti-social yet dependable ("And if I stay with you do you believe that I'll pull through?"). It's one of the most beautiful and complex songs of Wilson and Geffen. Two thumbs up!

To me, this song is about dealing with depression. Specifically, the way depression robs its victim of joy in things that most people would find meaningful or thrilling, and instills suicidal thoughts.

For me, the most powerful moment of the song was "she will tell me she loves me, that she won't ever stop; but I wanna die in this moment, I wanna die." For anyone else, this moment would be one of elation, but for someone struggling with depression, the relationship becomes like.... another thing to deal with on top of everything else. It becomes impossible to see the good in it, only the difficulties. The tremendous downsides. The potential to hurt and be hurt. He fears that because of his mental illness, he might not be enough for his partner ("and if I stay with you, do you believe that I'll pull through?") and rather than deal with all of that, he would rather exit in a way that frees him from having to hurt her directly. Of course, she would still be terribly hurt if he vanished. WE the listeners understand that possibility. And that tension between the listener's expectations and the speaker's perception belie the difficulties of treating someone with a mental illness that tells them that people would be better off without them around. When you're beaten down by a disease that only lets you feel the negative side of even the most positive experiences, by the end of it the only thing you're able to desire is an end.

I come back to this song more than I care to admit.

one of my favorites in their second album.

This song breaks my heart.

I think it's about something different. I know some of the songs that aviv writes about deals with his growing up inside the israel-palestine conflict. This draws some parallel to that as well. He's being forced to take sides, but he doesn't want to be part of it.

I think this song is most fefinitely about suicide. Of course, it goes much deeper than that, lyrically, but for the most part, I think it's what it's about.

This song makes me think of my girlfriend. No matter how much I, or any of her friends try, she's always miserable on the inside. She says the only time she's happy, and she doesn't want to die is when she's with me. Pity we never get to see each other.

I think the message of this song is similar to "Misunderstood" (by Dream Theater) which says "How can I feel abandoned even when the world surrounds me...".

When you have lost the one you love forever, your own success can feel like a mockery, and the loving again feels like a betrayal of the memory of the one you've lost. For me this is an eloquent and direct description of being haunted by grief.