Funny, I never thought of this song as an uplifting one. From the first time I heard it a few years ago, I always thought it was about suicide. That may be due in part to the overwhelming number of songs out ther about that, but that's what I always took it as.
"I Sink into the wall and staring up I saw I'm alone in all my thoughts, too afraid to be crazy I run, it always finds me"
I always pictured this as a guy at a party perhaps, not the life of the party, more along the lines of a wallflower, and he's kind of just sitting there, thinking and his thoughts get intese so he leaves in the hope of leaving all that behind.
"so tonight,
when i left here,
all i said was goodbye and thats alright,
no i'll see you later'"
I always interpreted that to be along the lines of, he's just fed up. And hes sick of dealing with all of these thoughts and of feeling so alone, so he sys goodbye, no "i'll see you later," because 'i've been trying my whole life' it seems to me like this is where he gives up, he's tried for so long and he just can't anymore.
"if it's an eye for an eye"
That lead me to think that perhaps someone broke his heart. And he's been trying for so long to move on and everything, that he's tired and he's going to do what he feels he needs, as they did.
"why should i?"
always seemed to me like, why should I continue when I've been trying my whole life and it's not getting any easier...why should i? I think we've all asked ourselves at one point or another,
Funny, I never thought of this song as an uplifting one. From the first time I heard it a few years ago, I always thought it was about suicide. That may be due in part to the overwhelming number of songs out ther about that, but that's what I always took it as.
"I Sink into the wall and staring up I saw I'm alone in all my thoughts, too afraid to be crazy I run, it always finds me" I always pictured this as a guy at a party perhaps, not the life of the party, more along the lines of a wallflower, and he's kind of just sitting there, thinking and his thoughts get intese so he leaves in the hope of leaving all that behind.
"so tonight, when i left here, all i said was goodbye and thats alright, no i'll see you later'"
I always interpreted that to be along the lines of, he's just fed up. And hes sick of dealing with all of these thoughts and of feeling so alone, so he sys goodbye, no "i'll see you later," because 'i've been trying my whole life' it seems to me like this is where he gives up, he's tried for so long and he just can't anymore.
"if it's an eye for an eye" That lead me to think that perhaps someone broke his heart. And he's been trying for so long to move on and everything, that he's tired and he's going to do what he feels he needs, as they did.
"why should i?" always seemed to me like, why should I continue when I've been trying my whole life and it's not getting any easier...why should i? I think we've all asked ourselves at one point or another,
why should i? Why Should I?!