O.K.

Like TusseyTheTerrible this song reminds me of Kurt Cobain. I think CrysC is probably right about the song's meaning, but every time I hear it I think of Cobain.

I think this song is about someone (probably a musician) who killed him or herself and how the singer is dealing with it.

what happened to my comment? it dissapeared. so i'll say it again. i think this song's about someone who commited suicide. probably a musician, hence the line "leaving me a couple of songs that i listen to everyday"

I think sometimes in a relationship you can end up glossing things over, so you sometimes don't even notice anything's wrong ("I don't even care / that you were so unfair / I worshipped one time at your feet / never heard what was said"). When this happens, the end can come as a total shock ("in a flash you were gone") and then afterward you can realize what was really going on ("your words hit me just last night / when I saw it with the aftersight"). Even though it hurts ("Drown in my tears, succumb to my fears"), you have to move on ("I'm not O.K., but that's O.K.").

I would have to agree that it is about the death of a musician, and the person is just now noticing the signs of sorrow he/she left in their music. Kind of reminds me of Kurt Cobain, you wouldn't have noticed it at the time, but now when you listen to his songs you can hear the sorrow, and all of the gun references are eerie.

ArtieSeven I would think is correct because I can relate this song to relationship problems that many people face.

i think its honestly about being left, im not sure if its talking about being left as in the person died, or as in he got dumped? but it deffinetly is saying that he is becoming apathetic to his current situation.

I love the lines:

And the reasons I have to live Are the reasons that you would give to throw it all away Save and freeze up our tears Catalogue all our fears Give into the stretching years But that's OK

I know so many people who have had so many oppertunities to better themselves, but they just sit around and let the oppertunities pass them by because they sit there and try to convince everyone around them that they are content with where they are right then at that time, even though they bitch and complain about everything and everyone around them 24/7. It's just such a pathetic way of living... and those lines really hit home when I think about them.

I don't necessarly think that it is about someone who died, even though it could be. I think it is about someone that the songwriter knew or had a connection with who left him to persue something better in some larger then life sort of way and now the writer wishes he would have done the same. All throughout the song he is trying to convince himself it is O.K., but at the end he finally admits that it is not OK, but that is where he is at.

I disagree with those who think it's a muscian dying, just because the the "couple of songs" lines. You know when a couple has their song, or songs that hold memories for moments together? That's what I think it means.

I figured it was "a couple songs" because he wrote them about his relationship.