My Own Design Lyrics

Lyric discussion by cj_17 

Cover art for My Own Design lyrics by Trapt

It's about someone who's fed up with having every aspect of their lives dictated by some authority figure such as a constrictive parent or mentor, wishing to break away and forge their own path and develop their own distinctive legacy. They've begun to realise that their own desires and aspirations may not exactly match up with those who've had a stake in their fate for some time. I think we all hit this stage around about the culmination of high school, at which point we're flung into a world that really is foreign to us.