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Wilderness Lyrics
If we got to know each other well enough we might end up as friends
I get along with everyone but recently I’m spent
I’m most happy when I’m dreaming of success
And all my good friends call me wilderness
Well every book I read gives different reasons to be free
And I’m being asked to say goodbye to the man I’ll never be
I’m actually fine with how things are turning out, I guess
And all my good friends call me wilderness
I plan to be the guy who when he drinks, he disappoints
They’ll say “you’ll kill yourself before you know it”
Well isn’t that the point? To make it all the more easier to digest?
And all my good friends call me wilderness
And I’m waiting for the day I can explain myself to you
But just because it’s honest, well that doesn’t make it true
And that’s the answer to the questions we have left
And all my good friends call me wilderness
Well I’ve found all my answers in a plan to be a star
To shine along in the sunrise towards which I lend no part
I’m not invited, but I hope they’re having guests
And all my good friends call me wilderness
I get along with everyone but recently I’m spent
I’m most happy when I’m dreaming of success
And all my good friends call me wilderness
And I’m being asked to say goodbye to the man I’ll never be
I’m actually fine with how things are turning out, I guess
And all my good friends call me wilderness
They’ll say “you’ll kill yourself before you know it”
Well isn’t that the point? To make it all the more easier to digest?
And all my good friends call me wilderness
But just because it’s honest, well that doesn’t make it true
And that’s the answer to the questions we have left
And all my good friends call me wilderness
To shine along in the sunrise towards which I lend no part
I’m not invited, but I hope they’re having guests
And all my good friends call me wilderness
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Relentless apathy..."and all my good friends call me wilderness..." Great song, great band!
The more you know something, the less you know. The same goes with people - and although we may not want to believe it, it's especially true for the people closest to you. Maybe most true when it comes to ourselves.
This song gives me goosebumps in all the right ways.
I think it's about a formerly happy, active person who's life is breaking down. They feel like they're having to give up and accept they're never getting better. They're never going to be the person they had hoped they'd become. In the end, they retreat away from everyone they care about, covering up what's going on with platitudes, while slowly becoming more and more distant.
In the beginning, wilderness has connotations of adventure, mystery, and fun. In the end, it's been replaced by something distant, cold, and unknowable.