This song is very uplifting. I was reading an astronomical interpretation of myself and was astounded by how accurate it was! This song came on while I was reading it and I instantly made the connection! At the beginning of this song, it describes the fact that there are lies that we tell ourselves.
"I’m stuck in this bed you made me with a sinking feeling." This refers to our self esteem. We are the ones who create our self esteem, but it is also self esteem itself that creates our doubts about ourselves. I’m in bad shape, I wish my personality was better, why am I still single? These are all questions that somebody with low self esteem would ask himself.
"I saw through the words you said, to the secrets you’ve been keeping. It’s written upon your face, all the lies how they cut so deeply." We all lie to ourselves about how bad of a person we are sometimes. The important thing to do is to love yourself. And these lies we tell ourselves really do stick with us, and it is so difficult to get rid of them and change our mentalities.
"You can’t get enough you take, and take and take and never say. No! You’ve gotta get it inside!" It’s easy for our low self esteem to ambush us. We are unaware when it happens, and this usually results in depression. Therefore when it happens, it doesn’t stop happening and it continues to happen. There always comes a point in our life when we become aware of this and say, "No!". We decide to fight this and overcome our low self esteem! Being harmonious with ourselves as a goal. But this is not easy. The self esteem fights back saying "You’ve gotta get it inside!" It won’t let go and you are now left fighting this internal battle.
"You push it back down! You push it back down! No! You’ll never get it inside! Push it back down! Black out! Blood in your eye!" This is when you continue to fight against your low self esteem. You keep trying to push it down but it keeps on persisting, NOW saying, "No! You’ll never get it inside!" This is referring to your harmony within yourself. Your low self esteem is trying to convince you that you will never achieve this goal and you will continue to doubt yourself and therefore never get anything done. "You push it back down! Blackout! Blood in your eye!" You still fight back. "Blackout! Blood in your eye!" This refers to the struggle you go through in terms of beating your self esteem. It really is a painful process and this song goes a lot deeper than fighting your inner low self esteem. This song is also mainly about breaking a habit. The battle you go through in breaking this habit.
"You say that it’s not your fault, and swear that I am mistaken. You said it’s not what it seems." Your habit/self esteem begins to play mind tricks on you. You begin to think that it’s not you that is creating the problem. It’s the circumstances in which you are in, and other people that are causing you to be this way. You start blaming others instead of taking responsibility.
"No remorse for the trust you’re breaking" Your habit/self esteem doesn’t care about how much it is destroying you. In fact, the overall goal is for it to destroy you. Now that you are in the process of battling your inner negativity, you recognize what is really happening here.
"You run but then back you fall, suffocate in the mess you’re making." Now that you are trying to battle this habit/self esteem, you keep trying to run towards it to attack, but you keep falling down and therefore falling into the same temptations. This damages you. It’s not easy, and changing is a very painful process.
"You can’t get enough you take, and take and take and take and take. Forget it! Are you listening?" He repeats this again. Your habit/ego still craves to destroy you. But then frustrated, you cry out, "Forget! Are you listening?"
“No! You’ve gotta get it inside! You push it back down! You push it back down! No! You’ll never get it inside! Push it back down! You push it back down! No! You’ve gotta get it inside! You push it back down! You push it back down! No! You’ll never get it inside! Push it back down! Black out! Blood in your eye” Your habit/ego ignores you. It starts to become overwhelmed as you keep battling it. Finally, you are winning. But your habit/ego is fighting back. And it is fighting back hard!
After this chorus is sung, there is a music break. There is a lot of chaos going on in the song while the habit’s/ego’s voice is being remixed and repeated over and over again. Your habit/ego keeps trying to fight back, but you keep pushing it down again and again. And it looks like the climax is ending, and that you are winning!
Finally, all the chaos and loud noise begins to fade away. Then, there is soft and beautiful music beginning to play. At last, you have won the battle. Your habit/ego is finally gone. He no longer exists.
“Floating down, as colors fill the light.” You are finally free, and you come back down to the Earth that you deserve to enjoy, as you watch your habit/ego dissipating in the sky (as colors fill the light).
“We look up from the ground, in fields of paper white.” People begin to see and recognize that you have changed. The fields of paper white refers to that something that is missing in this world, and that something is you. And as you continue to float down, the world becomes better and better before you know it.
“And floating up, you pass us in the night.” This is referring to the habit/ego that is now aimlessly wondering through the night, hoping to haunt you and take control over you again. However, now that you have defeated it, it will only continue to float away and pass you every night.
“A future gazing out, a past to overwrite.” A new ego is born and emerges from you. This is the ego of self-respect and love. It can see a bright future being held for you and will stop at nothing to help you achieve it. Soon, your old habit/ego begins to fade away and no longer exists. The old habit/ego is your past, and now it is finally gone. Your new ego overwrites the old.
“So come down, far below. We’ve been waiting to collect the things you know.” This is referring to the countless blessings that this world has in store for you. The world has been waiting to receive the triumph, testimony, and knowledge that you have, now that you have overcome your old ego. This is your chance to share your testimony, reach out to others that are going through the same thing you went through, and touch lives with your story. The world is asking you to come down far below your dissipated past, so that you may share your blessings.
“Come down, far below. We’ve been waiting to collect what you’ve let go.” There is another part of the world that wants to collect the waste of your past that you threw into the sky as you started coming down. This part of the world wants to collect what you let go so that it can no longer exist.
As the song starts to come to a slowing stop, the words, “Come down, oh.” are repeated over and over again. You are going towards the outside world full of countless blessings and it keeps telling you to come and come, so you keep yourself on your straight path. The world is determined to share your gift.
Finally, after all of your sweat, blood in your eye, and tears, you have one your battle and came at the top, triumphant.
This song is very uplifting. I was reading an astronomical interpretation of myself and was astounded by how accurate it was! This song came on while I was reading it and I instantly made the connection! At the beginning of this song, it describes the fact that there are lies that we tell ourselves.
"I’m stuck in this bed you made me with a sinking feeling." This refers to our self esteem. We are the ones who create our self esteem, but it is also self esteem itself that creates our doubts about ourselves. I’m in bad shape, I wish my personality was better, why am I still single? These are all questions that somebody with low self esteem would ask himself.
"I saw through the words you said, to the secrets you’ve been keeping. It’s written upon your face, all the lies how they cut so deeply." We all lie to ourselves about how bad of a person we are sometimes. The important thing to do is to love yourself. And these lies we tell ourselves really do stick with us, and it is so difficult to get rid of them and change our mentalities.
"You can’t get enough you take, and take and take and never say. No! You’ve gotta get it inside!" It’s easy for our low self esteem to ambush us. We are unaware when it happens, and this usually results in depression. Therefore when it happens, it doesn’t stop happening and it continues to happen. There always comes a point in our life when we become aware of this and say, "No!". We decide to fight this and overcome our low self esteem! Being harmonious with ourselves as a goal. But this is not easy. The self esteem fights back saying "You’ve gotta get it inside!" It won’t let go and you are now left fighting this internal battle.
"You push it back down! You push it back down! No! You’ll never get it inside! Push it back down! Black out! Blood in your eye!" This is when you continue to fight against your low self esteem. You keep trying to push it down but it keeps on persisting, NOW saying, "No! You’ll never get it inside!" This is referring to your harmony within yourself. Your low self esteem is trying to convince you that you will never achieve this goal and you will continue to doubt yourself and therefore never get anything done. "You push it back down! Blackout! Blood in your eye!" You still fight back. "Blackout! Blood in your eye!" This refers to the struggle you go through in terms of beating your self esteem. It really is a painful process and this song goes a lot deeper than fighting your inner low self esteem. This song is also mainly about breaking a habit. The battle you go through in breaking this habit.
"You say that it’s not your fault, and swear that I am mistaken. You said it’s not what it seems." Your habit/self esteem begins to play mind tricks on you. You begin to think that it’s not you that is creating the problem. It’s the circumstances in which you are in, and other people that are causing you to be this way. You start blaming others instead of taking responsibility.
"No remorse for the trust you’re breaking" Your habit/self esteem doesn’t care about how much it is destroying you. In fact, the overall goal is for it to destroy you. Now that you are in the process of battling your inner negativity, you recognize what is really happening here.
"You run but then back you fall, suffocate in the mess you’re making." Now that you are trying to battle this habit/self esteem, you keep trying to run towards it to attack, but you keep falling down and therefore falling into the same temptations. This damages you. It’s not easy, and changing is a very painful process.
"You can’t get enough you take, and take and take and take and take. Forget it! Are you listening?" He repeats this again. Your habit/ego still craves to destroy you. But then frustrated, you cry out, "Forget! Are you listening?"
“No! You’ve gotta get it inside! You push it back down! You push it back down! No! You’ll never get it inside! Push it back down! You push it back down! No! You’ve gotta get it inside! You push it back down! You push it back down! No! You’ll never get it inside! Push it back down! Black out! Blood in your eye” Your habit/ego ignores you. It starts to become overwhelmed as you keep battling it. Finally, you are winning. But your habit/ego is fighting back. And it is fighting back hard!
After this chorus is sung, there is a music break. There is a lot of chaos going on in the song while the habit’s/ego’s voice is being remixed and repeated over and over again. Your habit/ego keeps trying to fight back, but you keep pushing it down again and again. And it looks like the climax is ending, and that you are winning!
Finally, all the chaos and loud noise begins to fade away. Then, there is soft and beautiful music beginning to play. At last, you have won the battle. Your habit/ego is finally gone. He no longer exists.
“Floating down, as colors fill the light.” You are finally free, and you come back down to the Earth that you deserve to enjoy, as you watch your habit/ego dissipating in the sky (as colors fill the light).
“We look up from the ground, in fields of paper white.” People begin to see and recognize that you have changed. The fields of paper white refers to that something that is missing in this world, and that something is you. And as you continue to float down, the world becomes better and better before you know it.
“And floating up, you pass us in the night.” This is referring to the habit/ego that is now aimlessly wondering through the night, hoping to haunt you and take control over you again. However, now that you have defeated it, it will only continue to float away and pass you every night.
“A future gazing out, a past to overwrite.” A new ego is born and emerges from you. This is the ego of self-respect and love. It can see a bright future being held for you and will stop at nothing to help you achieve it. Soon, your old habit/ego begins to fade away and no longer exists. The old habit/ego is your past, and now it is finally gone. Your new ego overwrites the old.
“So come down, far below. We’ve been waiting to collect the things you know.” This is referring to the countless blessings that this world has in store for you. The world has been waiting to receive the triumph, testimony, and knowledge that you have, now that you have overcome your old ego. This is your chance to share your testimony, reach out to others that are going through the same thing you went through, and touch lives with your story. The world is asking you to come down far below your dissipated past, so that you may share your blessings.
“Come down, far below. We’ve been waiting to collect what you’ve let go.” There is another part of the world that wants to collect the waste of your past that you threw into the sky as you started coming down. This part of the world wants to collect what you let go so that it can no longer exist.
As the song starts to come to a slowing stop, the words, “Come down, oh.” are repeated over and over again. You are going towards the outside world full of countless blessings and it keeps telling you to come and come, so you keep yourself on your straight path. The world is determined to share your gift.
Finally, after all of your sweat, blood in your eye, and tears, you have one your battle and came at the top, triumphant.
At last, you are free.