In my opinion, this song is about Caleb PERFORMING to a crowd at a concert: To get ready to hit the stage, Caleb psyches himself up, saying to the waiting crowd in his head "You can't get enough", loosens his tie, raises his hands "to the sky," prepares his "rhythm and rhyme" (his songs), prepares his crowdpleasing entrance words ("what you want me to say"), and counts "on the night for a beautiful day" (because his nighttime concert performance IS what the whole day is all about)!
Now the following lyrics express his need to connect with crowd and "BE SOMEBODY" when the door opens and he races onto the stage:
"open the door
it's gonna make you love me
i'm facing the floor
i wanna be somebody"
BUT, there's always a price for wanting to perform, for wanting adulation, it is that by stepping onto the stage, he arms the AUDIENCE with the opportunity to shoot him down:
"now it's your time
and you know where you stand
with a gun in your hand"
He's begging us to love him, not shoot him down: "Given a chance
I wanna be somebody!"
I really like your interpretation. It's a good way to look at it. I'm wondering though if this is one of those songs where you chose what it means to, universal. Maybe, I dunno
I really like your interpretation. It's a good way to look at it. I'm wondering though if this is one of those songs where you chose what it means to, universal. Maybe, I dunno
In my opinion, this song is about Caleb PERFORMING to a crowd at a concert: To get ready to hit the stage, Caleb psyches himself up, saying to the waiting crowd in his head "You can't get enough", loosens his tie, raises his hands "to the sky," prepares his "rhythm and rhyme" (his songs), prepares his crowdpleasing entrance words ("what you want me to say"), and counts "on the night for a beautiful day" (because his nighttime concert performance IS what the whole day is all about)!
Now the following lyrics express his need to connect with crowd and "BE SOMEBODY" when the door opens and he races onto the stage:
"open the door it's gonna make you love me i'm facing the floor i wanna be somebody"
BUT, there's always a price for wanting to perform, for wanting adulation, it is that by stepping onto the stage, he arms the AUDIENCE with the opportunity to shoot him down:
"now it's your time and you know where you stand with a gun in your hand"
He's begging us to love him, not shoot him down: "Given a chance I wanna be somebody!"
I really like your interpretation. It's a good way to look at it. I'm wondering though if this is one of those songs where you chose what it means to, universal. Maybe, I dunno
I really like your interpretation. It's a good way to look at it. I'm wondering though if this is one of those songs where you chose what it means to, universal. Maybe, I dunno