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Tell me all your problems I'll save your soul It could make you feel better But you never really know Don't give up on tomorrow Save your scene It may not get any better Living isn't free Offer up solutions Do what you wanna do Remove all of the people who tell you lies about what you're going through But did you really wanna die This question now keeps repeating in my mind A shot heard in the night an unheard cry A fatal fight But did you really wanna die What did you hope to find Did you want to find the answers somewhere floating in the night Did you really wanna die? Tell me I'm forgiven Save my soul One thing I've regretted is I'll never really know Value what's been given to you and me How many times we said it Living isn't free Don't think you can make it I can understand A phone call far away To lend a helping hand Don't think I can make it Give it one more try Don't think I can take it Can't believe you'd really wanna die I'd Help you give it one more try Did you really wanna die Help you give it one more try I know you didn't wanna die From words that you would write Now they're the only thing that help me make it through the night I know you didn't wanna die
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It's Jim trying to come to terms with Thrisk's death.
Easily the most personal song on this album. Did you really want to die?
Ok, this is obviously a song directed to Pennywise's previous bassist, Jason Matthew Thirsk, much like the whole of the Full Circle album.
The whole "did you really wanna die?" is based around the circumstances of Jason's death, ie. whether or not he was shot in the chest, or shot himself ("a shot heard in the night, an unheard cry, a fatal fight?")
I think Jim is trying to ask Jason the questions that perhaps he wished he maybe could've, in order to just rest over it all ("tell me I'm forgiven...one thing I've regretted is taht I'll never really know"), and that he would've have helped him, had he known ("I'd help you give it one more try...").
In the end he concludes that Jason didn't kill himself, based on the inspiring lyrics of previous songs on previous albums written by Jason.
RIP Jason M. Thirsk.
I fully agree, but also it teaches us again (yes, PW repeats in that album, but for a previously dedicated album, it's very good) the lesson to help your friends out and care for them. It also helped me in a much more harmless case.
Agree to all of you... I was allready wondering about who jason was because i never really knew and looked it up...
RIP Jason M. Thirsk
Thirsk committed suicide. This song is asking him "did he really want to die" since most people just think suicides want to die. He didn't want to die. He just wanted help
Several more times more powerful than the Bro Hymn remake, I can't stand that song since a long time now due to corporate abuse and people not into hardcore punk at all playing it over and over.
My hair raises at the final silent " I know you didn't wanna die"
Lyrically interesting - obvious allusions to Jesus Christ (tell me I'm forgiven, etc.) although of course Jim is referring to Jason on the surface. If we take it with the Christ undercurrent, it would be an interesting statement Jim makes, that Christ didn't want to die ("I know you didn't want to die"). God, in a sense, did want to kill Himself to save the people he loved and loves. It does seem inappropriate to link Jesus with Jason as it were. However, perhaps it is part of the "Full Circle" - heaven came down to earth and died to go back into heaven. Or in this case, a great, positive man died and went to the afterlife to live again. This is a lesser circle, one all too human.