Trembling Hands

I think the line "Has fall along with me once" is actually "Is for the alone ones"

This song means so much to me. I have injured my voice, my instrument, and have been trying in vain to sing again for over a year. I go back to the doctors and voice teachers, but I always feel like they can't fix me or really work with me, and I'm on my own. I wish someone would be there for me.

This is excatly how I felt I stopped being freinds with my best freind. It's okay now we're freinds again. Its a shame I didnt listen to this song when I was in that situation. Then again it would have just made me sadder! Anyway, awesome song! TT rulz!

Turning the ground I once used to know People are strangers Same as before Streets look familiar I remember the park Where I buried my head So deep in my hands All around me was dark

He is walking through where he usually does. But this time, it's with a new perspective. Everything is darker unfamiliar. He mentions it is familiar, but he would not describe an area he knows by heart if it truly was. People are strangers, he knows that as he encounters them. Everyone has a story, but to begin to even start their story, you need to start over. This isn't his first rodeo of feeling lonely and lost.

This here city Is for the lonely ones Won't find no angels Sell a map to the lost This here place Is too small for two It took one to realize When dreaming's this hard It's not meant to come true

Loneliness is further conveyed here. As he sees others, he inevitably ponders that others may feel the same. Althought people are strangers, everyone has this common path to walk down. You won't find angels, who are meant to be a guide. So it is better to go "sell a map" to those who need help. But that's what he wants. Someone to help him. This state of loneliness or loss of a relationship troubles him deeply. He wishes the place is big enough for two, but the reality (what he noticed) was that after so many tries, he always ends up in the same position. He feels it is meant to be this way because it never ends any differently.

So throw me a line Somebody out there help me I'm on my own I'm on my own Throw me a line Afraid that I have come here To win you again With trembling hands

As mentioned before, he wishes for someone to come up to him and help him. This time it is more blunt. However, when he sings this, he sounds desperate. As if nobody is listening. Also as mentioned before, he says "Afraid I have come here again/To win you again/With trembling hands," indicating he needs to start over with a relationship he has lost.

Passing the days Looking over the buildings Time seems to stop While the millions keep moving Now here I am I'm a drop in your ocean Noise in the crowd Pushing through your halls of reason

This lonely feeling seems to be a daily occurrence, for he notices people seem to move on and move forward in life when this one thing is burdening him. The second half of this solidifies the idea that this is of a person, a relationship he lost. He is a drop in their ocean. A noise in a crowd. Insignificant. But he doesn't get how it got to this point, so he is running through the possibilities of what happened so he could (as stated before and after) win them again.

So throw me a line Somebody out there help me I'm on my own I'm on my own Throw me a line Afraid that I have come here To win you again With trembling hands

Hear me now make me whole, whole Hear me now make me whole, whole

He wants to feel significant. He wants to feel like a person. He wants to feel whole. Like life is complete. And to do that, he wants to win this person back (again stated before and after these lines).

So throw me a line Somebody out there help me I'm on my own I'm on my own Throw me a line Afraid that I have come here To win you again With trembling hands Trembling hands

There goes the ending It left me in the war But I tried everything yeah I'm done with my part

This part, despite being short, really does hit the message home that theres no hope. He knows things are ending. Things are done. But there's this mental battle he is going through -- he is lost, he is lonely, and it makes it worse that the other person moved on. But he tried so many things. He tried to win her back. But nobody can help. The relationship is done, it's over with, there's no going back. Because of this, knowing he tried his best and nobody can really help, he is done with his part. There is nothing he can do.

I like this song because it is fairly vague and the instruments and background echoes mixed with the pain heard in his voice hits hard. I personally get hit with a wave of loneliness when hearing this song because it brings me back to things I have lost, not just a person. It truly makes me feel like nobody is out there to help me. Maybe because they all face their own similar problem. Or maybe because they don't realize how much it means to me. They tell me to get over it. It's always things out of my control. However, this song has helped me realize when I DO have control over a situation and a feeling. Sure, I have to start some place where I am uncomfortable, but eventually, I get to where I want to be. This is because the reverse of this song is also true. That an insignicant loss of hope (that is me) can be picked out in a crowd, in an ocean just as easily as I could get lost in one. And I realize others have this same exact feeling. I could show this song to everyone and the vocals with instrumentals could get them sad, sure, but paying attention to the lyrics sends them to a depressive state. In college, I struggled endlessly on my own to study. My friends were either different majors, not focused on school, or way behind me to understand what I am learning. In class, I would blurt out wrong answers and everyone looked at me like an idiot. But this song has given me the courage to do something about it and ask someone to be my study partner. Everything changed since then. Because I am no longer on my own.