This is a rather interesting self-reflective song and easily one of the (if not the) best on the album. Like most others, I'm amazed it's a bonus track, it should've been a single. Its pop credentials are pretty strong.
In particular, there's a kind of desperate pleading.
"I knew there'd come a day
When all was said and done
Everything I was is everything but gone
All my big mistakes are bouncing off your wall
The bottles never break,
The sorrow never comes
So come on let me in, I will be the sun
I will wake you up; I am who I was."
It's that feeling you have when you've gone too far. You've managed to screw things up by over-correcting, over-reaching, you've really just over-played the hand you've been dealt. And only when the person -- who you care greatly about -- displays how offended they are, do you reel back and realize, "What the hell am I doing?"
They recoil. They back away from you. And you just want to reach out and say, "Hold on, hold on, I'm sorry. I'm the same person I've always been, don't go." And there's no un-breaking what's been broken. You did wrong, they can't un-remember what's happened.
This is a rather interesting self-reflective song and easily one of the (if not the) best on the album. Like most others, I'm amazed it's a bonus track, it should've been a single. Its pop credentials are pretty strong.
In particular, there's a kind of desperate pleading.
"I knew there'd come a day When all was said and done Everything I was is everything but gone All my big mistakes are bouncing off your wall
The bottles never break, The sorrow never comes So come on let me in, I will be the sun I will wake you up; I am who I was."
It's that feeling you have when you've gone too far. You've managed to screw things up by over-correcting, over-reaching, you've really just over-played the hand you've been dealt. And only when the person -- who you care greatly about -- displays how offended they are, do you reel back and realize, "What the hell am I doing?"
They recoil. They back away from you. And you just want to reach out and say, "Hold on, hold on, I'm sorry. I'm the same person I've always been, don't go." And there's no un-breaking what's been broken. You did wrong, they can't un-remember what's happened.