Carry Me Home

I love this one too!!!!

I think this song is about being with someone but it doesnt feel like that person is the love of your life:

In the first part of the song we have the statement:

Let me out Don't tell me everything Start it out Like any other day Must have gave the wrong impression Don't you understand where I belong? I'm not the one

They've been together for a while, and they have a routine but he doesn't feel comfortable with that. The line "I'm not the one" said it all for me, he is telling her that he is not the love of her life, or that he doesn't feel she is the love of her life.

Another line that really catch my eye is in the second paragraph:

Self-denial is such a wonderful and powerful thing But I'm not the one

He is doubting about staying there or leave, but he doesn't feel good when he thinks that so he try to self-denial to give himself some confort.

In the chorus he states that he is not afraid, but he is crying because he is confused. The morning dove sings with two broken wings Carry me home, I'm not afraid The stars in my eyes with shimmering lights Carry me home, don't let me fade away

In the next part we have this:

When you self-destruct you wind up looking for a glimmer of hope But the writing's on the wall I'm not the one

He knows they aren't meant to be together, but he is still looking for some kind of hope to believe he should stay.

But at last he start to be a little more optimist, wondering if he could find love in another place:

Is there somewhere else that I can win Is there something else to start over again From the summit's edge to the cutting room floor I will be afraid no more (no more)

And he won't be afraid again, because he will find love, the truly one.

I really love this song and I've been there sometimes in my life, damn you Brandon you always know how to say it right.

This song appears to be about someone who is in the wrong place at the wrong time, but only he knows it. Perhaps Brandon thought this way about himself at one point.

I've often found myself in places I didn't feel I belonged. This song speaks to me very deeply. There is an air of either unrelenting optimism or fatalistic capitulation...or perhaps both, which is common in times of deep emotion. I'd like to think he is embodying the "screw it" mentality while looking forward to better - or at least more familiar - things to come when he returns "home." However, part of me wants to believe he is also throwing in the towel in the "screw it" sense and wishing to be "carried home" to a place where he can forget about everything either for a while or, more sadly, forever.

This could also mean the "not being afraid" is, for the optimist, a fresh start and damn the consequences. For the fatalistic pessimist, it's the lie told to ease the pain of the past, present, and short-term future.

I'd like to see him as the optimist genuinely looking to start over in a new context. Experience has taught me the fatalist is more often the reality behind the glib facade of hopefulness.

Only the writer will know...and each listener will interpret as he or she sees fit.