To Live Is To Hide

This song is a very touching song for me. To some, it may mean something, and for others, it may mean the complete opposite. However, when you see your friends, and family everyday, do you know what they're thinking just by looking at their face? No, you will never know what thoughts race through their minds, just as they don't know your thoughts. This song to me is a perfect example of what its like to feel a certain way and not be able to express your emotions.

acetica i like the way you worded your interpretation, it suddenly made me realize an aspect of the lyrics that i had overlooked. there are many things that cant be understood in other peopel and sometimes thats hard to come to terms with (especially in love) but its hard to be in the dark when you care about someone.

i agree with acetica. but i think that instead of wanting people to know you feel that way.. you try hard to hide it. something i can relate to.

This has to be the most depressing song ever written - if anyonw knows worse please tell me - im quite curious

christina is amazingly hot I know this has nothing to do with the song (which kicks ass) but she is hot.

What is this song exactly about? I think maybe hiding the real you, hiding your feelings..

Chorus: 'What I need now what I need is to live to hide when you smothered my devotion with your lies'

Somone's lied to her. Hurt her so much.

The Verse: (what Andrea sings):

I NEED TO KNOW WHAT WAS MEANT!!! I NEED TO KNOW HOW YOU FELT!!!

'I'm going to freeze Is it my imagination? It's underground but I can feel it the same '

The reason's underground, it's not important, but what's become of me? I'm going mad but I know something's wrong'

'Suffering while I'm depending on seasons roots under me are embracing the earth '

I've become weak from your lies, I'm so weak, but I've learned, I've become a better person, I've learned to stick to reality. I don't trust you anymore'

Cya pple! Avess XxXxX

This song helped me through a really rough time I was having with my friends. I don't know if anyone else will get this but here goes:

I was in a situation where my friends weren't treating me every well at times but I was too afraid to say anything to them because I didn't want to hurt them and was almost afraid that I was just being paranoid and over-sensitive and there was nothing really wrong. In the end when I did confront them about it they got all hurt and defensive at me.

To me it's about repressing yourself because you're afraid to hurt people even if they've hurt you: To hide emotions cause a blow out desperately I seek in their blast a way so I can not be outdone and to finish this search for the meaning

Feeling unsure as to whether what you're feeling is really true or all in your head: I'm going to freeze Is it my imagination? It's underground but I can feel it the same

And then confronting them only to regret it because they've become hurt and want to turn the blame on you again: What I need now what I need is to live to hide when you smothered my devotion with your lies

And I feel now as I did that time that I'm wondering why still I make you cry

Hope that made sense to you, guys.

I love this song. I think it's that when everything seems fake and emotions (unconscious, not realized) overwhelm, you just want to hide, so you can be in your own peace. You can only define your feelings relatively, and don't know what they are. The person expects change to happen so that their feelings will change but their unconscious is clinging to the feelings. We have been demanded by society to stand strong and never give in to anything, so the person needs to hide their negative feelings and still find the meaning of life so they're whole and have a purpose in life. The outward person they are has made the inner person sad. All the lies the world gives, the person gives and hears, stop the person from feeling.

Life goes on too fast nowadays, people repress emotions, devotion to passions have to be sacrificed.Hiding emotions is stupid and only causes you to blow up. Even those who preach this don't listen to their advice. The unconscious controls much of us, we need to work with it and understand, not repress it and hate it. If everyone showed emotions, they wouldn't feel exposed.

Almost reminds me of my relationship.

"While emotions try to come out desperately I seek in their path a way so I can not be outdone and to finish this search for the meaning

To hide emotions cause a blow out desperately I seek in their blast a way so I can not be outdone and to finish this search for the meaning"

he never expresses how he feels til he blows up on me. And I stick with it trying to figure out why he's being like this, I take the blast of his emotions to try to work things out even though its hard

"What I need now what I need is to live to hide when you smothered my devotion with your lies

And I feel now as I did that time that I'm wondering why still I make you cry"

Minus the lying, it reminds me how he feels. He makes me cry and he cant understand why cause he loves the shit out of me and thats suppose to be enough. He doesn't realize what the "blast" of his emotions does to me.

Just how I relate