Why Do I Feel So Sad?

i think it means that even tho the enevitable has happend, you cant help but be sad. Sometimes its sad to leave things behind, but sometimes it just has to be done. I feel this is what this song is about coz ive experienced it.

To me, she is singing about a 'good' breakup (is there such a thing???) and although they are still friends, she is upset about it and is wondering why...

Im in the same situation of Key deep and when I first read the song that was the first thing that came to my mind. I know must of my friends since I was nine or ten years old and only to think about this ''separation'' it makes me sooo sad. The thing is that we got to face that this "leave behind people you love" it could be for the better and no isnt necesary to be so bad (just like the song says). It hurts but its part of our lifes too and we cant stop or run from it.

By now by now I should know That in time things must grow And I had to leave you behind So why do I feel so sad If it couldn't be that bad Tell me why

I respect everyone's opinion on this song, but I want to throw a curveball. Could this song not be talking about a long-time friend who caught feelings for the other? Looking at the lyrics, it makes perfect sense. "Friends we've been for so long / Now true colors are showing" (they've been friends for a long time, but one of them has caught feelings and possibly fallen for the other). Many times when this happens, the friendship is never the same, and you have to "say goodbye" to the friendhip. "You cannot hide the way you feel inside I realize." I mean, this is just one perspective. I agree with everyone else's interpretation. I just wanted to look at it from another possible angle.

this is definitely talking about how you have to leave people behind to go after what you want. after highschool, there are a lot of people who go off to college and never see certain friends again. it hurts but things have to change.

I can understand this thought of leaving people that you love or are close to to move on to bigger, better things. I will be graduating from junior high in June 2005. I'm scared as hell, and i'm going to miss all my good friends. I might never see some people again. But I gotta do it, so I can move on to high school, then college, and then pursue my dreams and be successful. Sometimes you have to do these things, and, yes; sometimes it is for the better. And I mean, hey, if you think about it one way; dead people do it all the time. Do they chose to? You think they want to?(speaking generally) And do they really have a choice?

Alicia Keys for life

How can I adjust To the way that things are going It's killing me slowly Oh I just want it to be how it used to be

god i know that feeling

Things always change, for better or worse, that's how relationships end, some change for their best, and stay together, others choose to become idiots and cheat on you, changing for the worse, you end up losing the relationship and the friendship, and even though we all know that, it will always hurt... There's nothing worse than losing someone you once loved very deeply.

"By now I should know that That in time things would change So it shouldn't be so bad So why do I feel so sad"

I wish love wasn't so blind, and we could realize when things have changed.

i think maybe...its like when youre in a relationship...and theres that first !!!!!! part of it, and then you start getting more comfortable with eachother, but with that you start noticing less the little things, and sometimes just the change of it, while not bad, can make ya sad? not sure if thats really how to word it.

I think she is singing about her ex and how they are still very close and with their closeness she can only wear her heart on her sleeve so she's admitting her honest feelings. This is a song that explains exactly how i am feeling as me and my ex are best friends and although its made the process so hard and so painfully long it's at the stage where he has a new girlfriend and i am slowly realizing i can't be first anymore and i will have someone in the future too. its the best case scenario because we aren't meant to be but we still have each other in our lives....so why am i so sad?