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Staring At The Sun Lyrics
Maybe life is like a ride on a Freeway,
Dodging bullets while you're trying to find your way
Everyone's around but no one does a damn thing
It brings me down, but I won't let them.
If I seem bleak
Well you'd be correct
And if I don't speak
It's cause I can't disconnect
But I won't be burned by the reflection
Of the fire in your eyes
As you're staring at the sun
When I ran I didn't feel like a runaway
When I escaped I didn't feel like I got away
There's more to living than only surviving
Maybe I'm not there, but I'm still trying
Though you hear me
I don't think that you relate
My will is something
That you can't confiscate
So forgive me, but I won't be frustrated
By destruction in your eyes
As you're staring at the sun
Dodging bullets while you're trying to find your way
Everyone's around but no one does a damn thing
It brings me down, but I won't let them.
Well you'd be correct
And if I don't speak
It's cause I can't disconnect
But I won't be burned by the reflection
Of the fire in your eyes
As you're staring at the sun
When I escaped I didn't feel like I got away
There's more to living than only surviving
Maybe I'm not there, but I'm still trying
I don't think that you relate
My will is something
That you can't confiscate
So forgive me, but I won't be frustrated
By destruction in your eyes
As you're staring at the sun
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Submitted by
sawg On Apr 21, 2001
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ok this is straight from dexter from offspring.com:
The idea that I was trying to get across in Staring at the Sun is this: I know that one of the toughest things about growing up is trying to figure out who you are, and how you "fit in" to everything. And believe me, it doesn't just stop once you're grown up, either. I know that for me, I definitely felt like I didn't "fit in" in school. In fact, I hate those words: "fit in." I didn't feel comfortable trying to be a part of any one clique at school. I didn't want to just be one of the athletes, or one of the stoners, or one of the popular kids, or whatever. And I remember that a lot of kids wanted to fit in so badly, that they compromised who they were a little bit in order to be a part of one of these groups. I thought that was really sad.
The words "staring at the sun" are kind of a metaphor, or an analogy, for people that are being self-destructive, or compromising themselves. And in the song, I'm saying that I won't be a part of that. Maybe this line wraps it up the best:
But I won't be burned by the reflection Of the fire in your eyes As you're staring at the sun.
That's like me trying to say that if you're going to destroy yourself, you're not going to drag me down with you.
Does that make sense? I think it's so important for kids (or anybody) to just be who they are and not care what anyone else thinks. And that's the hardest thing to do.
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sk8erdude148, finally someone here realizes that dexter probably knows more then us about HIS songs. go u
My first impression was that it was about rebellion. The phrase "staring at the sun" is loosely connected to "Blinded By the Light" a Bruce Springsteen-penned song that Manfred Mann Earth Band made famous: "...you shouldn't look into the eyes of the sun, but mama, that's where the sun is"
Fucking ill song
this song probaly means of all the problems he goin threw,so he just tryin to get past them and tryin to create more problems -Maybe life is like a ride on a Freeway, Dodging bullets while you're trying to find your way- when he says that,he probaly means that he tryin to find a way to get threw a problem he is in.
it means that the person is trying to help people with problems and even though he sees thigns logically their irrationality means that he has to try hard not to get dragged down with them and yet he knows he was once like them
Heh, all I know is that it's a good song to frag by ;)
It rulez
scratch that last post i made.....wrong song :-/