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Hey you're now thirsty 
Walking in the desert all alone 
Hey you're now searching 
Lost in isolation from your soul 
The bullets you bite 
From the pain you request 
You're finding harder to digest 
And the answers you seek 
Are the ones you destroy 
Your anger's well deployed 

Hey why can't you listen 
Hey why can't you hear 
Hey why can't you listen 
As love screams everywhere 

Hey you now hunger 
Feeding your mind with selfishness 
Hey you now wander 
Aimlessly around your consciousness 
Your prophecies fail 
And your thoughts become weak 
Silence creates necessity 
You're clothing yourself 
In the shields of despair 
Your courage now impaired 

You crucify all honesty 
No signs you see do you believe 
And all your words just twist and turn 
Reviving just to crash and burn 
You're fighting till the bitter end 
If only your heart could open up 
And listen
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demau Senae On Apr 16, 2001
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Cover art for Listen lyrics by Collective Soul

great song abt being truthful and speaking what ur heart feels..its about standing up despite the burdens in life bogging u down..sometimes we gotta take a breather from our hectic schedules and ponder:where am i heading in life?...hehe..food for thought?..geeez now i'm hungry

Cover art for Listen lyrics by Collective Soul

I think the track is talking about someone who denies themselves 'love'... and it leads to depression.

They're desperately searching to be loved... hence their searching...

People sometimes are so afraid of 'love' they tend to seek out rejection instead.. to them it's a high, like a drug. It has been well documented by various councellors. i.e "The pain you request..."

However the person is getting sick of constantly putting themselves down. They don't love themselves, they're looking for love from other people. hence "your finding it harder to digest"

However what they don't realise is that there are people that love them, their parents, their family, maybe even their spouse. There are cases where people are married, however don't feel love from their significant other. And often the problem is within themselves, they can't love themselves.

There is love there, right infront of their faces - "Love screams everywhere.."

I believe the second verse carries on describing the feelings one has when their in this particular spiral. It is a spiral, it starts with you not liking yourself, and can end up with you killing yourself. People that kill themselves are often thought of as selfish.. often by others than have no idea what the person is going through.

And in that spiral, they're thoughts get worse, and thereby weak. This leads to despair, and the inability to get oneself out of it.

Finally in the third stanza, the track talks about how all the signs are out there infront of them, their friends, family that they are loved, but they won't accept it.

No prizes for guessing what the bitter end could be.

But there is a way out of this, if only they're heart could open up, i.e no longer believe the lies that they're not loved or wanted, and listen to the plain truth staring them in the face, they are loved, accepted and needed.

There have been cases where youths have suicided even though their parents and family loved them, so I though the concept fitted the track..

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I think its about someone afraid to love, and since they've denied themselves that for so long, they don't realize that 'love screams everywhere.' Now they want to feel it and don't know where to look.

 
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