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Try To Change

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Try to change, I try to change
I make a list of all the ways to change my ways
But I stay the same, I stay them same
Oh, oh, oh

I will try and try to change
But I just stay the same
(Stay the same)
I stay the same
In a decadent age, I try to change
All my decadent ways,
But I just can't help but stay the same
In a decadent age
Oh, oh, oh

I will try and try to change
But I just stay the same

The same
the same
the same
the same

Carry a cane
I carry a cane
'Cos I tried to change
And I tried to hard
So I hurt my leg and more overall

I just stay the same
And now I carry a cane
Oh, oh, oh

I will try and try to change
But the list I made of change to make
It blew away
flew away
blew away
flew away

Try to change
try to change
I
try to change
try to change

Everybody be tryin' to change
Tryin' to change
I try to change
I
I try it's safe to say some

Don't change

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by mattslucas

16y ago

Well seems fairly obvious, they want to change but encounter hardships along the way, which makes sense because any important change is going to be hard to accomplish. Finally they just give up on the change because no matter what they seem to just be slipping back into their old ways.

Thats my opinion anyways....

Love the song though very calm, yet some what uplifting and dreary all in one. Also very short and simple.

Woo Mother Mother

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by lakoje

16y ago

Yes this song is easy to interpret. I like the lyrics because I empathize with it a lot. I actually like the album "O My Heart" as a whole for its crazy feeling of decadence XD.

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by Zeldouille

4y ago

So, this song is actually really easy to understand, but I like the message. It talks about someone who tried to change himself (wow, that's literally the title of the song), certainly because he was asked to by other people, but he just doesn't succeed.

The first verse is him saying that his efforts are just useless, nothing can change him : "I try to change, I make a list of all the ways to change my ways, But I stay the same" : He wants to change so hard, he even made a list of things to change in him. Isn't it a bit extreme ? He must've lived something really harsh with other persons to think this way. He also says everything he does fails to change him. "I will try and try to change but I just stay the same" : He doesn't want to give up but he knows very well that it's useless.

The second verse says almost the same thing as the first one. This time, it starts with "I stay the same", while the first one started with "I try to change" : he starts with the result instead of starting with the goal. "In a decadent age" : he criticizes the era in which he lives, maybe it's the cause of his trials. The rest of the verse is almost the same as the first one, so I'm not gonna talk about it.

The third one introduces the moral. "I carry a cane, 'Cause I tried to change and I tried to hard, So I hurt my leg" : When we try to change ourselves, to change who we are, the only thing we can do is hurting ourselves. What's more : "Well over all I just stayed the same, Now I carry a cane" : Not only did he fail to change, but he also hurt himself trying : So if we can't change ourselves, why should we continue trying so hard ? The only thing we can do is hurting ourserlves, it's just useless.

I'm gonna skip to the end of the song, because the last sentence apart it isn't really interesting. So, the last sentence : "It's safe to say some don't change" : I will conclude with this : Just be who you are. It's exactly what this song is saying. It may seem really naive, but it's a message really important. This song is really simple to understand so it may seem as useless as trying to change (lol), but I liked writing this :)

My Interpretation

So, this song is actually really easy to understand, but I like the message.
It talks about someone who tried to change himself (wow, that's literally the title of the song), certainly because he was asked to by other people, but he just doesn't succeed.

The first verse is him saying that his efforts are just useless, nothing can change him :
"I try to change, I make a list of all the ways to change my ways, But I stay the same" : He wants to change so hard, he even made a list of things to change in him. Isn't it a bit extreme ? He must've lived something really harsh with other persons to think this way. He also says everything he does fails to change him.
"I will try and try to change but I just stay the same" : He doesn't want to give up but he knows very well that it's useless.

The second verse says almost the same thing as the first one. 
This time, it starts with "I stay the same", while the first one started with "I try to change" : he starts with the result instead of starting with the goal.
"In a decadent age" : he criticizes the era in which he lives, maybe it's the cause of his trials.
The rest of the verse is almost the same as the first one, so I'm not gonna talk about it.

The third one introduces the moral.
"I carry a cane, 'Cause I tried to change and I tried to hard, So I hurt my leg" : When we try to change ourselves, to change who we are, the only thing we can do is hurting ourselves. What's more :
"Well over all I just stayed the same, Now I carry a cane" : Not only did he fail to  change, but he also hurt himself trying : 
So if we can't change ourselves, why should we continue trying so hard ? The only thing we can do is hurting ourserlves, it's just useless.

I'm gonna skip to the end of the song, because the last sentence apart it isn't really interesting.
So, the last sentence :
"It's safe to say some don't change" :
I will conclude with this : Just be who you are. It's exactly what this song is saying. It may seem really naive, but it's a message really important.
This song is really simple to understand so it may seem as useless as trying to change (lol), but I liked writing this :)

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