All Alright

This song awakens a level of emotion in me that nothing else has ever come close to, every time I listen to it. It could be because we had the album back when it was released, and we used to play it in the car, because that was the only radio we had.

I remember that our favourites were Some Nights, and We Are Young (the two most popular of the album), and we'd play them on repeat again and again. If it were a particularly long car journey, we'd sometimes even make it through the entire album, but that happened once in a blue moon, because everything we needed was a few minutes from where we lived. A simpler time, through and through.

I have no idea why, but this song holds much more nostalgia than any other song in the album, and I actually found myself crying while listening to it on a car journey very recently. Again, I have no idea why it's only this song, because at the time, I'd have played the second and third songs on a loop for hours.

Verdict: I love the song, holds a lot of emotional weight for me, great album too. It's a rare occourance that an album shows up without a single bad song. You know how you buy an album for a single song, and overlook the rest of them, Some Nights is a truely consistantly great album. 10/10.

After listening to this song a few times, but trying to reserve myself to hold onto the nostalgia, I've found some similarities between this song and another by Nate Ruess, Great Big Storm.

The concept that I see crosses over is, rather grimly, the theme of death.

In Great Big Storm, we hear the following words: "I watch my mother cry Father Time is catching up I keep the phone by my side Afraid she’ll wake me up to catch the next flight In time to say goodbye"

Aside from being very emotional, it details a charachter's father, supposedly in a critical condition, where they could be lost at any moment.

In this song, however, we hear: "And I got the call soon as the day hit night As soon as the headlights lit up the Westside I stopped the car and came outside Cause I know that tone I remember the first time we wished upon parallel lines Waiting for a friend to call and say they’re still alive"

This details a similar feeling. The character is shown to have received a call, and clearly some bad news, because he had to stop the car and exit. Additionally, the "tone" suggests that the first time they "wished upon parallel lines," or to make a lucky wish at 11:11 on the clock, it was to hear news that someone had survived. This also suggests that the same situation is happening again, with less hopeful overtones.

I just thought it was interesting, because I can relate to the feeling of waiting anxiously to hear whether or not a loved one is still alive or not. There really is no other feeling quite comparable.

I feel like this song is about a young war veteran or a soldier who has lost a lot of friends. "I know that tone, I remember the first time .. waiting for a friend to call and say they're still alive" means he's lost more than one important person in his life.

At first he says that he's given everyone he knows a good reason to go, as in leave him, but was surprised that "you" stuck around - this is someone he loves, maybe a girlfriend or lover who sticks with him. I think this is the same person he refers to later when he says she fell from the sun. He puts up a front of happiness/being okay, but knows that his unhappiness affects her too ("I see you burning out") He also says that he never claimed to be more than a one night stand, so I think perhaps he was trying to push her away at one point, but she still stuck around.

The second time he says "I've given everyone I know a good reason to go" he follows with "but I came back with the belief that everyone I love is gonna leave me." He's talking about a different kind of leaving, one where he comes back: he justifies/believes his reason for going to war, but in reality it has affected him deeply.

....this song kind of describes exactly my current relationship.

I remember the first time We wished upon parallel lines

"Parallel lines" is a reference to the time 11:11. The numbers make four parallel lines, and it's a time at which many people make wishes.

I remember the first time We wished upon parallel lines Waiting for a friend to call And say they're still alive

Always strikes me as something about the Twin Towers, because the towers went down and phones couldn't get signal so they could call their loved ones.

Though, reading through other interpretations, I think 11:11 is a much more appropriate explanation.

I think its about being pushed out and hated by people you love, and thinkinf irs your fault, then someone finally decides to stay, but even they want to leave.

"But maybe just this once, Oh let me keep this one."

The wishing on parellel lines thing is for 11:11.

The people who left made fun of him even though he loved them.

"And now all my loves have come back to haunt me, My regrets and texts sent to taunt me."

I don't know if anyone else hears it but I hear a tardis noise towards the end so I always relate it to the doctor. "Everyone I love is gonna leave me" it actually fits.

"I've given everyone I know a good reason to go. But I came back with the belief that everyone I know is gonna leave me" ~ Hits me every time I hear it...

The reference to parallel lines is most likely connected to the song "Dog Problems"

"We are parallel lines We’re running in circles We're never meant to cross"

I think the first verse where he says "Well I got the call as soon as the day hit night..." is referring to a car accident, hence the "parallel lines" and "waiting for a friend to call and say they're still alive".