Yeah he's really close, definitely can tell that from They're Not Like Us from his street to nowhere days :P
Yeah he's really close, definitely can tell that from They're Not Like Us from his street to nowhere days :P
But the leaving for good and always coming back part, I kinda took it as even though he's leaving and coming back constantly, there's a part of him that leaves for good. Perhaps something in him that doesn't come back with him where whenever he returns, things aren't always quite the same. I guess you could also tie in the lines "If I really wanna stay alive, there's a part of me that's gotta die", where these different lines from...
But the leaving for good and always coming back part, I kinda took it as even though he's leaving and coming back constantly, there's a part of him that leaves for good. Perhaps something in him that doesn't come back with him where whenever he returns, things aren't always quite the same. I guess you could also tie in the lines "If I really wanna stay alive, there's a part of me that's gotta die", where these different lines from the verse and chorus are sorts of metaphors for both you gotta give something to get something, but after so much moving around, things lose their familiarity.
This may seem dumb but I mean think of the game "telephone" where you tell a person one thing, and see if it can be passed through a bunch of people. Eventually the sentence, or life/experiences/home/whatever you wanna think of it as, loses it's familiarity.
dave is really close to his brother :)
i think that there are feelings of confusion and frustration. he's trying to make things right but he can't.
Not completely sure what this song is about. He says that he leaves for good, but he also says that he always comes back...
Yeah he's really close, definitely can tell that from They're Not Like Us from his street to nowhere days :P
Yeah he's really close, definitely can tell that from They're Not Like Us from his street to nowhere days :P
But the leaving for good and always coming back part, I kinda took it as even though he's leaving and coming back constantly, there's a part of him that leaves for good. Perhaps something in him that doesn't come back with him where whenever he returns, things aren't always quite the same. I guess you could also tie in the lines "If I really wanna stay alive, there's a part of me that's gotta die", where these different lines from...
But the leaving for good and always coming back part, I kinda took it as even though he's leaving and coming back constantly, there's a part of him that leaves for good. Perhaps something in him that doesn't come back with him where whenever he returns, things aren't always quite the same. I guess you could also tie in the lines "If I really wanna stay alive, there's a part of me that's gotta die", where these different lines from the verse and chorus are sorts of metaphors for both you gotta give something to get something, but after so much moving around, things lose their familiarity.
This may seem dumb but I mean think of the game "telephone" where you tell a person one thing, and see if it can be passed through a bunch of people. Eventually the sentence, or life/experiences/home/whatever you wanna think of it as, loses it's familiarity.