Somedays

Ok, so I may be way off here, but I think I've made sense of this song.

I think it is about someone with bipolar disorder, where the person has two distinctly opposite personalities: one is extremely depressed and the other is extremely carefree and happy. The person is singing about her personalities, if that makes any sense... She wants to be happy and carefree all the time. I feel this desire to be happy all the time is represented by the tone of the music: it is happy, soothing, and carefree throughout the whole song. But the depression keeps sinking in and messing up her happiness.

The first verse: "Somedays aren't yours at all They come and go as if they're someone elses days They come and leave you behind someone elses face And it's harsher than yours And colder than yours They come in all quiet sweep up and then they leave And you don't hear a single floor board creak They're so much stronger than the friends you try to keep by your side"

She is describing the how the depression is making her life difficult. In this verse, the "you" she is singing to is who she feels she really is inside (the happy personality). Somedays aren't happy, and these depressed times keep coming and going. "They come and leave you behind someone else's face", meaning after she comes out of her depression, she expects everything to be ok, but it isn't because people view her as the depressed person. There is another side to her that keeps coming in and screwing up her life. When she is in a good mood, she tries to fix the damage she caused when she was depressed, but the depression is so strong that it is causing her to lose everyone that she is trying to keep close to her.

The next section: "Downtown, downtown I'm not here, not anymore I've gone away Don't call me don't write"

"Downtown" is the depressed personality. She doesn't want to be depressed anymore. She is in her good mood and is telling the depressed mood to leave her alone pretty much.

"I'm in love with your daughter I want to have her baby I'm in love with your daughter So can I please"

She is still singing to the depression. I feel like this is a metaphor. Everytime after the depression, the happiness is "born" again. She is telling the bad mood that she is in love with its daughter, the good mood. And she doesn't want the good mood to keep leading to more bad moods. Instead, she wants the good moods to "give birth" to more good moods. She is metaphorically asking the depression's permission to "marry" the good mood so she can permanently become the person she feels she truly is and wants to be all the time. It is a continuation of the section above, asking the depression to leave her happiness alone.

"Downtown, downtown I'm not here Not anymore I've gone away don't call me don't write I've gone away don't call me don't write"

Same meaning as before.

Ending: "Somedays aren't yours at all They come and go as if they're someone elses days They come and leave you behind someone elses face And it's harsher than yours"

The ending could have an optimistic or a pessimistic meaning (listener's choice): Optimistic: It is a continuation of the previous sections. She is still singing to the depression when she says, "Somedays aren't yours at all". She has beat the depression and she no longer has days where it takes over. The days that used to belong to the depression now belong to someone else (the happiness) and they leave the depression with a happy face. =) But the last line, "And it's harsher than yours" leads me to believe its more pessimistic: In that case, the depression has come back again and the ending has the same meaning as the first verse.