This song is about a person's realization that they can not change to be what the other person wanted, no matter how hard they try to be that someone else...that their partner wanted. The person finds it easier to "break and laugh it off" than go through the gut wrenching changes that could have made for the type of relationship that they both envisioned in the beginning. (I'm referring to changes like too much drinking, too much flirting, lack of emotionally connecting...stuff like that). This person decides that he/she knows that this is how they are and they are not ready yet to move to a deeper level of love, it would be too much personal change for the one who has decided to "break" and take the easy way out...and not work on his/her problems that are disturbing to the relationship.
Does this make sense to anyone else?
pretty much. except that there is deep conflicting feelings going on. "all i wanted was you" (but he didn't frickin realize it before the breakup or imminent breakup).
pretty much. except that there is deep conflicting feelings going on. "all i wanted was you" (but he didn't frickin realize it before the breakup or imminent breakup).
maybe he did try to change, but not into the person he wanted to be, but the person that he thought she wanted him to be - only to turn himself into someone nobody wanted him to turn into.
maybe he did try to change, but not into the person he wanted to be, but the person that he thought she wanted him to be - only to turn himself into someone nobody wanted him to turn into.
"I tried to be someone else
But nothing seemed to change
I know now this is who I really am inside
Finally found myself
Fighting for a chance
I know now this is who I really...
"I tried to be someone else
But nothing seemed to change
I know now this is who I really am inside
Finally found myself
Fighting for a chance
I know now this is who I really am"
he finally found himself and he's fighting for a chance. he knows what happened and that she loves him for who he was in the past and could be in the future, while she also hates him for what he has become in the present.
in the line "what if i wanted to fight", 'fight' means 'fight to keep our relationship intact'. why else would he be begging?
it's a song of conflict between what your head tells you is probably the better decision and what your heart tells you.
from all my past experience - go with the heart. the head can confuse itself. the heart is a better judge of things and people.
this song could have been written about my relationship with my (now estranged) wife. im the guy who f-d up and tried to mentally beat himself into submission and turn into 'the proper husband/dad image'. only problem was that neither of us liked that guy and the strain not to be myself was damn-near unbearable, causing me to lash out verbally and just be an a-hole in general. i'm trying so hard to fix things now that i realize what happened and just what a special person she is and how hard she fought for years to keep us together.
This song is about a person's realization that they can not change to be what the other person wanted, no matter how hard they try to be that someone else...that their partner wanted. The person finds it easier to "break and laugh it off" than go through the gut wrenching changes that could have made for the type of relationship that they both envisioned in the beginning. (I'm referring to changes like too much drinking, too much flirting, lack of emotionally connecting...stuff like that). This person decides that he/she knows that this is how they are and they are not ready yet to move to a deeper level of love, it would be too much personal change for the one who has decided to "break" and take the easy way out...and not work on his/her problems that are disturbing to the relationship. Does this make sense to anyone else?
pretty much. except that there is deep conflicting feelings going on. "all i wanted was you" (but he didn't frickin realize it before the breakup or imminent breakup).
pretty much. except that there is deep conflicting feelings going on. "all i wanted was you" (but he didn't frickin realize it before the breakup or imminent breakup).
maybe he did try to change, but not into the person he wanted to be, but the person that he thought she wanted him to be - only to turn himself into someone nobody wanted him to turn into.
maybe he did try to change, but not into the person he wanted to be, but the person that he thought she wanted him to be - only to turn himself into someone nobody wanted him to turn into.
"I tried to be someone else But nothing seemed to change I know now this is who I really am inside Finally found myself Fighting for a chance I know now this is who I really...
"I tried to be someone else But nothing seemed to change I know now this is who I really am inside Finally found myself Fighting for a chance I know now this is who I really am"
he finally found himself and he's fighting for a chance. he knows what happened and that she loves him for who he was in the past and could be in the future, while she also hates him for what he has become in the present.
in the line "what if i wanted to fight", 'fight' means 'fight to keep our relationship intact'. why else would he be begging?
it's a song of conflict between what your head tells you is probably the better decision and what your heart tells you.
from all my past experience - go with the heart. the head can confuse itself. the heart is a better judge of things and people.
this song could have been written about my relationship with my (now estranged) wife. im the guy who f-d up and tried to mentally beat himself into submission and turn into 'the proper husband/dad image'. only problem was that neither of us liked that guy and the strain not to be myself was damn-near unbearable, causing me to lash out verbally and just be an a-hole in general. i'm trying so hard to fix things now that i realize what happened and just what a special person she is and how hard she fought for years to keep us together.