Lifelines

I'm not sure, but i think he might say 'somebody's giving in but i'm not.' Nevertheless, this is an AMAZING song. Probably my fav off of the cd which is saying alot because it's so solid.

I think it's a song about how so much of life can be perception. The lines 'Somebody's giving in but i'm not' and 'fires that you made and the earth that you walk' both just make me think that he is trying to show how differently people can take things. Alot of people can have the world at their fingertips and still not be happy while people who have little to nothing can be so grateful for the smallest things.

The line 'Feels like a place i've never been' is describing an all time low or maybe just a completely new phase in your life. And when he talks about looking for a 'lifeline' i think it's like looking to find a way out of a bad streak in your life. I know that sometimes all you need is something small to go well in your life and things start looking up.

Just my opinion, obviously it could be way off.

I agree with Wahoo11 in that this is my favorite song off this album. However, I think this song is about death and how we ultimately don't make a big impact on this world, as well as how we don't know what death really is.

"I Feels like a place I've never been And I Feels like a place I've never seen"

At the beginning of the song, I believe he is dead already. No one has any real idea of what death really is like, no matter how sure you are of your faith. Until you die, you won't know what death is like, and he is echoing this idea with these lyrics.

"Oh Somebody's giving it but I'm not Somebody's giving it but I'm not Somebody's giving it a lot of time Somebody threw you a lifeline"

This stanza comes off as him looking back on his life, and how he didn't really care about it. He notices how other people care about life and how they helped someone else who was down instead of him. This stanza is very bitter toward the people who get all sorts of help in life, as if they can't live without some sort of crutch.

"Oh Fires that you made and the earth that you walk The ground beneath and the words that you talk Fires that you own and the words that you talk The ground beneath and the air that we walk All gone..."

This stanza is the most nihilistic of all of them. He's saying that nothing you say will matter when you're gone. Not in the long run of this planet, not in the eyes of nature. Instead of being more specific and modern by saying "businesses" and "money" and whatnot, he is going back to the basics of earth, fire and air. Fire is a symbol of power, and he is saying that no matter how much power you had, it will be gone when you are.

"Sometimes it's hard to see things straight Trying to make sense on this single page Sometimes you seem to spend your life trying I'm just looking for my lifeline"

This existentialist stanza is likely the happiest one in here. He realizes that you have to give life meaning on your own; life has no inherent meaning. The line with "a single page," I think, refers to the Bible, which many people look to for meaning in life. He believes that, to truly understand life, you can't simply look through someone else's eyes. After this realization, he says he is looking for a lifeline, meaning he wishes he had a second chance at life.

The last repetition of the chorus and "I/Feels like a place I've never been" gives the piece a sorrowful, but solid conclusion. Death isn't something you can reverse. The realization that he will have made no ultimate impact on anything on Earth gives a sort of relief in his idea of an afterlife. Instead of wallowing about how insignificant life is, he looks forward to the new adventure of death.