"What breaks your bones is not the load you're carrying, what breaks you down is all in how you carry." -The Fighter
Regarding the background of the song, during a performance at the University at Buffalo, Issac Slade mentions that he wrote the song "The Fighter" while on a "getaway" in a cottage, located in the mountains of Colorado. The song was inspired by a picture called "Strictly a Sharpshooter" by Norman Rockwell that he saw in a book he purchased. The painting depicts a boxer who has succumbed to his opponent, and a female companion by his side.
The thing that is wonderful about the Fray's lyrics is their ability to make one song individual to so many people. In a sense, I think it can be up to your own interpretation. The literal meaning of the song is that the man is a boxer, and even though his significant other loves him, he goes off to fight, reassuring her (I know I know I know) that it is his last fight. In the end, she is by his side as he is dying (he's not coming home) from an unexpected hit (he never even saw the swing).
A second interpretation is a less literal one, and my first impression of the song before I knew Issac's inspiration. When I first actually listened to the lyrics, it made me think of John Mayer's song "Assasin," because of the use of a metaphor of a fighter to symbolize the way relationships can be sometimes. The woman is in love with a man who is incapable of returning that love, and she tries to hold on to him as he is slipping away. He's a man who can't commit his love to her and always thought he would be alone (maybe we were meant to be lonely), but is questioning that belief (maybe we don't have to be all alone).
He does his best to return that love (he swings with all his might at all that might have been) and she gets even more desperate (she calls out his name, she begs him not to go), but in the end, their attempts are futile because he leaves (somehow they both know, that he's not coming home). He leaves, questioning his decision, and we are left wondering if he will return...
Loneliness has always been with me, with me
Maybe we were meant to be on our own
But I got to try or it will destroy me
Cause maybe we don't have to be all alone
I have been hearing this song for so long now. i knew what was the original inspiration that isaac got and some other interpetations. But i have to say, your interpetation of the song just gave me the chills.
it is such a beautiful and poetic idea to think about it as a conflict with himself, and really, i don't think it could have been written any better. it's the only explaniton i've encountered that actually gave way to the loneliness parts that i never understood.. just brilliant.
I have been hearing this song for so long now. i knew what was the original inspiration that isaac got and some other interpetations. But i have to say, your interpetation of the song just gave me the chills.
it is such a beautiful and poetic idea to think about it as a conflict with himself, and really, i don't think it could have been written any better. it's the only explaniton i've encountered that actually gave way to the loneliness parts that i never understood.. just brilliant.
"What breaks your bones is not the load you're carrying, what breaks you down is all in how you carry." -The Fighter
Regarding the background of the song, during a performance at the University at Buffalo, Issac Slade mentions that he wrote the song "The Fighter" while on a "getaway" in a cottage, located in the mountains of Colorado. The song was inspired by a picture called "Strictly a Sharpshooter" by Norman Rockwell that he saw in a book he purchased. The painting depicts a boxer who has succumbed to his opponent, and a female companion by his side.
The thing that is wonderful about the Fray's lyrics is their ability to make one song individual to so many people. In a sense, I think it can be up to your own interpretation. The literal meaning of the song is that the man is a boxer, and even though his significant other loves him, he goes off to fight, reassuring her (I know I know I know) that it is his last fight. In the end, she is by his side as he is dying (he's not coming home) from an unexpected hit (he never even saw the swing).
A second interpretation is a less literal one, and my first impression of the song before I knew Issac's inspiration. When I first actually listened to the lyrics, it made me think of John Mayer's song "Assasin," because of the use of a metaphor of a fighter to symbolize the way relationships can be sometimes. The woman is in love with a man who is incapable of returning that love, and she tries to hold on to him as he is slipping away. He's a man who can't commit his love to her and always thought he would be alone (maybe we were meant to be lonely), but is questioning that belief (maybe we don't have to be all alone). He does his best to return that love (he swings with all his might at all that might have been) and she gets even more desperate (she calls out his name, she begs him not to go), but in the end, their attempts are futile because he leaves (somehow they both know, that he's not coming home). He leaves, questioning his decision, and we are left wondering if he will return... Loneliness has always been with me, with me Maybe we were meant to be on our own But I got to try or it will destroy me Cause maybe we don't have to be all alone
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I have been hearing this song for so long now. i knew what was the original inspiration that isaac got and some other interpetations. But i have to say, your interpetation of the song just gave me the chills. it is such a beautiful and poetic idea to think about it as a conflict with himself, and really, i don't think it could have been written any better. it's the only explaniton i've encountered that actually gave way to the loneliness parts that i never understood.. just brilliant.
I have been hearing this song for so long now. i knew what was the original inspiration that isaac got and some other interpetations. But i have to say, your interpetation of the song just gave me the chills. it is such a beautiful and poetic idea to think about it as a conflict with himself, and really, i don't think it could have been written any better. it's the only explaniton i've encountered that actually gave way to the loneliness parts that i never understood.. just brilliant.