I Don't Need a Soul

I was actually at a Relient K concert last night and Matt Thiessen said that this song was about how he always thought he needed a girlfriend and basically now he knows he doesn't need one to make him happy.

This song makes me think the whole album is not about your traditional break-up, but about separation and death. Here are the give-away lines: "Departing from the hospital / The news shows on your face too well /Trying not to cough at all, it hurts All options are exhausted all / The numbered days are numbered small" The sirens remind the writer that his loved one could have died already. He can't stand the thought of leaving her, so he tries to harden himself to the inevitable tragedy. He doesn't need a soul. He will have to be able to live without her. He will always remember her ("you and life remain beautiful").

Okay, this song was from their West Coast tour. So the lyrics may not be completely accurate, but I will change them when I get more official ones if they're not. Anyway. This song is amazing, but I'm not good with trying to decipher the lyrics xD

Okay, so I updated the lyrics. :) This song is about his ex-fiance, as are most of the songs. Basically, he's saying that it's the end, as evidenced by the "you can hear the chapter close." The closing chapter means that it's the end of him and her. But he's also saying that he doesn't have anything to complain about, because each day is a new day ("the sun still burns the shadows out"). He also says he can still live life without her, although he wishes she was still there ("You and life remain beautiful"). But he realizes things could be a lot worse, like he could be the ones the sirens are rushing for, etc. Just what I think.

I think of the death of his father, actually.. trying not to cough at all, it hurts.. he died of lung cancer (think of the song deathbed). I think that he was thinking of his ex and his father, and yeah, I agree with jamnastic, death and separation in general. Good song.

rachellelanea read this Comment by Matt about the song Deathbed "I started the song with the chorus, the very first part of the song, the "I could smell the death on the sheets" sorta thing. I don't know how that came about, I was just kinda goofing around on the piano one night. And so then I was like, "Where should I go with this? I kind of like it." And I was thinking about writing a song about myself - imagining myself dying. At that point, it wasn't cancer or anything, I was like, "Maybe I'll go through my life and imagine everything," but then I thought, "Y'know, that's kind of weird and it might not be good." So I started making up this fictitious character and that was really fun. I just started having a lot of fun with it. I thought "This'll be cool!" and I'll go through his life and whatnot. And certain parts of this guy's life, I based off family or friends that I knew. Like he ended up getting married on his twenty-first birthday, well my brother got married on his twentieth birthday. And he got divorced, and my brother got divorced. My brother-in-law, his previous marriage ended up getting divorced and he joined a bowling league and bowled seriously every day of the week and ended up bowling two to three hundred games. And that is how he dealt with his divorce and stuff. So it was just a lot of different little things like that. Actually, I had two or three people tell me already that the song is their grandfather to a "T." My old roommate, he's been on our third record and did our hidden track with me, I played him the song - see, I always play him our stuff and he doesn't really like our music, I just wanted to play him that song - and his grandpa died a week before and he was a preacher's son and there are all these coincidences with it, it was really weird. He was like, "Dude, that's crazy! I didn't tell you my grandpa died!" I had no idea.

so its not about his dad cuz his dad left him

hey, thanks.. i was secretly waiting on a reply to my post for some further leads on my thoughts :P

and thanks so much for not being rude and making me feel like an idiot haha :)

sorry if i did sound rude it just bugs me when people think deathbed was about him or his dad.i was wrong about his dad leaving him.his parents divorced when he was 6