He may have wrote it because he was thinking about how he wanted someone to commit suicide, but like he said, he spinned it into a positive song. The song IS about getting over your fears and "jumping", that is, instead of dipping your toes into the water, do a cannonball and take life head on without worry or regrets.
"You've got it tough, I've seen the toughest all around"
This means everybody's problems are really the same, not saying that there's no difference between your kid dying or your ice cream melting, but that we all have traumas in life.
"You've got to roll with punches to get to what's real"
Life for the moment, don't think about tomorrow, just let it happen and make decisions as it happens, take things as they come and don't act like it's the end of the world.
kailkay, you ignored Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clatpon's god Robert Johnson?
Not about suicide.
He may have wrote it because he was thinking about how he wanted someone to commit suicide, but like he said, he spinned it into a positive song. The song IS about getting over your fears and "jumping", that is, instead of dipping your toes into the water, do a cannonball and take life head on without worry or regrets.
"You've got it tough, I've seen the toughest all around"
"You've got to roll with punches to get to what's real"
kailkay, you ignored Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clatpon's god Robert Johnson?