I got a dizzy flash and felt like a truck went right through me when I heard this song...when you have been through the experience, this song just tears you down so badly...
To me, this song is about how sin can tear you apart from the ones you love, especially sinful addictions..I speak all this from my life.
In the first verse, the "undertow" is your sin, your addiction that separates you from the one you love. The undertow is an underlying force that is in opposition to the apparent force...it perfectly describes how your sin or inner conflict can creep into the center of your life so stealthily. As for the gun, it symbolizes how incredibly easy it is to destroy things...it just takes a bullet and a working finger. Your sin starts out as a simple thorn, but if you let it slide to much, it will grown into something capable of much more destruction, like a gun. Your sin or problem has the ability to wreck your life or the relationship that you have or want with someone, or in my case, this one girl...
The other verse now. The itch is also your small little sin..you know you shouldn't scratch it because it will get bigger and worsen over time, but it gives you a good feeling temporarily for the time that you are scratching it..
"Wash it off, take the loss, let it go." After you do this sin, you realize it was wrong, so you just accept that you have sinned "take the loss", decide to have a new start and not sin anymore "let it go", and ask forgiveness from God "wash it off"...only to do it again...
As for the rest of the song, it's pretty self explanatory..when I do this sin, the circumstances it puts me in separates me from the girl I love..I can't be there for her because I'm obssessed with this problem...
"And it hurts when you're lonely
and I'm standing right beside you there
And it hurt when you told me
that you'll try this on your own"
Personally, my favorite lines. Some lyrics I have read read as "And it hurt when you told me that YOU'D TRIED this on your own". When it reads this way, it's so powerful. Like instead of asking me to help her through something she was facing, she didn't let me know about it and faced it alone, then 5 months later she told me about the problem she faced...it makes me feel like she didn't trust me enough, or we weren't as close as I wished we were...
"Hope you never hurt
Hope you never cry
Hope you never lose your way tonight
Hope you never crumble
Hope you never fall
Hope you never throw away it..."
For that last line, I hear it more like "Hope you never throw away - " Then he's cut off, like he was about to say something important, like he hopes she never throws away the weakening relationship between them..
"It hurts when you can't see
and it hurts"
I hear: "it hurts when you can't see - ..." Like he's not going to say that missing phrase...and he just says "it hurts...i hear: "it hurts when you can't see that I love you, so much..."
It absolutely amazed me that there was a band with lyrics so powerful...i love TFK!!!
This is my own meaning, and it came from my own life experience..if someone else if facing the same problem that I am, I know that they see this song the same way..
I like your interpretation of the song. I'm only 20 and reading your interpretation is a lot like what I'm going threw. Only in my life I'm only half way threw the song. I'm not at the end. the "itch" i want to stop itching, but i can't. Yah i would say I'm trying to fix it on my own, i told my boyfriend about the problem but no one else. I haven't seen the destruction of the sins yet, and I'm afraid what it will do, but i can't seem to stop sinning. (many people in the world would...
I like your interpretation of the song. I'm only 20 and reading your interpretation is a lot like what I'm going threw. Only in my life I'm only half way threw the song. I'm not at the end. the "itch" i want to stop itching, but i can't. Yah i would say I'm trying to fix it on my own, i told my boyfriend about the problem but no one else. I haven't seen the destruction of the sins yet, and I'm afraid what it will do, but i can't seem to stop sinning. (many people in the world would think my sins aren't sins, but they are sins to me)
I got a dizzy flash and felt like a truck went right through me when I heard this song...when you have been through the experience, this song just tears you down so badly...
To me, this song is about how sin can tear you apart from the ones you love, especially sinful addictions..I speak all this from my life.
In the first verse, the "undertow" is your sin, your addiction that separates you from the one you love. The undertow is an underlying force that is in opposition to the apparent force...it perfectly describes how your sin or inner conflict can creep into the center of your life so stealthily. As for the gun, it symbolizes how incredibly easy it is to destroy things...it just takes a bullet and a working finger. Your sin starts out as a simple thorn, but if you let it slide to much, it will grown into something capable of much more destruction, like a gun. Your sin or problem has the ability to wreck your life or the relationship that you have or want with someone, or in my case, this one girl...
The other verse now. The itch is also your small little sin..you know you shouldn't scratch it because it will get bigger and worsen over time, but it gives you a good feeling temporarily for the time that you are scratching it..
"Wash it off, take the loss, let it go." After you do this sin, you realize it was wrong, so you just accept that you have sinned "take the loss", decide to have a new start and not sin anymore "let it go", and ask forgiveness from God "wash it off"...only to do it again...
As for the rest of the song, it's pretty self explanatory..when I do this sin, the circumstances it puts me in separates me from the girl I love..I can't be there for her because I'm obssessed with this problem...
"And it hurts when you're lonely and I'm standing right beside you there And it hurt when you told me that you'll try this on your own"
Personally, my favorite lines. Some lyrics I have read read as "And it hurt when you told me that YOU'D TRIED this on your own". When it reads this way, it's so powerful. Like instead of asking me to help her through something she was facing, she didn't let me know about it and faced it alone, then 5 months later she told me about the problem she faced...it makes me feel like she didn't trust me enough, or we weren't as close as I wished we were...
"Hope you never hurt Hope you never cry Hope you never lose your way tonight Hope you never crumble Hope you never fall Hope you never throw away it..."
For that last line, I hear it more like "Hope you never throw away - " Then he's cut off, like he was about to say something important, like he hopes she never throws away the weakening relationship between them..
"It hurts when you can't see and it hurts"
I hear: "it hurts when you can't see - ..." Like he's not going to say that missing phrase...and he just says "it hurts...i hear: "it hurts when you can't see that I love you, so much..."
It absolutely amazed me that there was a band with lyrics so powerful...i love TFK!!!
This is my own meaning, and it came from my own life experience..if someone else if facing the same problem that I am, I know that they see this song the same way..
~Darkcelldx
I like your interpretation of the song. I'm only 20 and reading your interpretation is a lot like what I'm going threw. Only in my life I'm only half way threw the song. I'm not at the end. the "itch" i want to stop itching, but i can't. Yah i would say I'm trying to fix it on my own, i told my boyfriend about the problem but no one else. I haven't seen the destruction of the sins yet, and I'm afraid what it will do, but i can't seem to stop sinning. (many people in the world would...
I like your interpretation of the song. I'm only 20 and reading your interpretation is a lot like what I'm going threw. Only in my life I'm only half way threw the song. I'm not at the end. the "itch" i want to stop itching, but i can't. Yah i would say I'm trying to fix it on my own, i told my boyfriend about the problem but no one else. I haven't seen the destruction of the sins yet, and I'm afraid what it will do, but i can't seem to stop sinning. (many people in the world would think my sins aren't sins, but they are sins to me)