anonymous February 11th, 2008 02:42AM  
Obviously abortion.

anonymous April 21st, 2008 02:42PM  
I think this song has two different stories inside of it. The first is about her friend calling her, explaining that she had sex with a man she thought she loved but didn't, and now she needs an abortion. It says that she walks through the doors, their eyes so accusing but they are hypocrites because they are all there for the same reason and her friend should be treated to different. The chorus says that you can't go back so just do what you have to do in the present and just breathe and get through it. The next story is about a soldier, just come back from the war and he is 21 years old. She describes that feeling you get when you see someone smile, even if you don't know them, that makes you want to hold them and comfort them. When she talks about the tunnel she is talking about getting through life, that you'll never get anywhere without making mistakes. Lastly she just describes herself pulling together all the things that have happened into a song to share with the world, so everyone can get their own meaning.
She sings that life just keeps moving on, explaing the cars on the cable and the hour glass glued to the table...but why not just turn the table over?

anonymous May 19th, 2008 12:14PM  
This song is about anna's friend calling her at 2am because she's about to have her mistake, which is a baby. She doesn't even love the guy who got her pregnant, winter just wasn't her season cause that's when it happened. When they walk in the doors of the hospital, people give her nasty looks because she is so young, when they need to stop judging cause they are there for the same reason.

Then the chorus is stating that you can jump the tracks were like cars on a cable, meaning you got on this ride, and you have to follow the path it's on. An hour glass glued to the table means, your stuck in this position. You can't find the rewind button, so you can't go back and fix this. just breathe, meaning have the baby.

In the second verse, it describes the baby's father. He's a soilder who seems to be a drunk all the time. Then when he visits, and is town, the friend shows the father his son who smiles, and the father doesn't want anything to do with the child.

And in the third verse, it's saying that there no point in trying to fix this mistake, to go back in time and erase it cause you'll just do it again and won't learn from it.


Overall, it's a great song.

PrimaDonna9 July 3rd, 2008 07:50PM  
I love this song! It's so poetic and beautiful. It contains three separate stories that pertain to hardships in life.

In the first story, I took it to mean that the friend who called the narrator (from this point on, I will refer to her as Anna since that is the name of the singer) in the middle of the night was pregnant. Anna accompanies her friend to an abortion clinic, where they are met with people's stares. It is ironic because those who are critical of her are there "for the very same same reason."

The chorus says that everyone must face their problems because time cannot be rewound or fast-forwarded. The only thing they can do is "breathe." Issues do not just go away; they must be confronted.

The second story focuses on a young man from Anna's town who becomes a drunkard. Everyone around is aware of his predicament, and Anna seems to find him attractive when he is in a good mood. She says she wants "to hold him." However, he isn't to be approached because of his drunkenness. So Anna writes about him instead.

The last story is about Anna herself. She is awake at that early hour (2 AM) "writing a song." She is pouring out her soul into what she is writing. She is almost hesitant to perform her finished work because her feelings would be out in the open, and she doesn't want them to be received negatively.

That's my interpretation.

anonymous August 1st, 2008 01:25AM  
Everyone has their own interpretation of this song. To me this song means one thing "move on." This song is about a mistake that was made and she sees it now. The part in the song where she talks about a "tunnel with two lights one on each end", it means that if she goes back to him it justs drags her back further into the tunnel. All she can do is move forward there is no "rewind button" in life.

Quiranna1986 August 28th, 2008 01:13AM  
This is a song that has always touched me, because I can understand Anna Nalik's point of view. I could picture my now ex best friend calling me, asking for my help and support....My other best guy friend is who I think of with the second verse...It's just a song to tell you that the choices you make can't be undone....you can't backtrack and you have to see them through....As if you were talking your friend through her problems, or watching your guy friend drink himself to oblivion...And to try and undo them, would only make something happen even worse to teach you the very same lesson.

anonymous March 21st, 2009 05:00PM  
I think this song is saying that it wouldn't do you any good to go backwards in time, hence "these mistakes you've made you'll just make them again if you only try turning around." It is also saying you should just accept the facts and move on with your life.

anonymous April 6th, 2009 05:32PM  
I think this song is about anyone who made a mistake- be it a pregnancy, drug addiction, etc... It's about how once you make a mistake,you can't turn back. You have to face it and move on, life goes on. Specifically: "2AM and she calls me cause I'm still awake Can you help me unravel my latest mistake I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season" I think that most people who have made a *mistake* with someone (and suffer the consequences) could relate to this first verse. "Well you can't jump the tracks we're like cars on a cable and life's like an hourglass glued to the table. No one can find the rewind button, girl. So cradle your head in your hands and breath... just breath... (and so on)" The chorus is about moving on from our mistakes, and there isn't a way to change what we've already done. You have to just go with it. "May he turned 21 on the base of Fort Bliss just today he sat down to the flask in his fist ain't been sober since maybe October of last year." This is about someone with a drug addiction, who just realized they did and finally decided to give it up and start over. I think the rest of the song is pretty self-explanatory, I really love this song (I make mistakes A LOT)

anonymous June 4th, 2009 08:06PM  
It sounds like the song might be about alcholholics because of the "we walk throught the doors so accusing their eyes like the have any right at all to criticize they're all here for the very same reason" and the second verse and because of the bridge.

anonymous July 22nd, 2009 12:26PM  
I think it is definatly about abbortion. I believe the mother didn't get the abbortion and that the man at Fort Blizz is actually the father. He hasn't been sober because of all the changes and mistakes in his life. I also think that when it says "it's so beautiful when the boy smiles, Wanna hold him," it's from the father's point of view. He dosen't want a child, but when the child smiles it makes the world seem a little better.

anonymous August 12th, 2009 12:16AM  
I think one point of the song is about not being able to turn back time but what about the beginning? it doesnt make sense to me...

anonymous October 10th, 2009 07:34PM  
I think she is singing about a wife and the wife's soldier husband who is stationed at Fort Bliss, TX. He has PTSD from Iraq or Afgan. which is why he hasn't been sober since last year and has been down. The breathe lyric also refers to PTSD as it is used to calm one down and to stop someone from hyperventilation.

anonymous October 10th, 2009 11:54PM  
I agree it could be about a soldier returning from Iraq or Afghanistan and what the wife and family has to go through. May he turn 21 at Fort Bliss vs turning 21 in Iraq/Afghanistan... So beautiful when he smiles I just want to hold him... because of his pain....

anonymous November 3rd, 2009 05:53PM  
My interpretation for the first part(You guys already covered my views on the other parts):
"2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake, can you help me unravel my latest mistake? I don't love him... winter just wasn't my season..." I was thinking about everyone else's theorys... most saying abortion, but I thought about another theory. It could mean the girl got a call from her friend at 2 AM because the friend got arrested and is at the county jail. Maybe she was helping her boyfriend do something illegal and realised she wasn't in love with him.
"Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes, Like they have any right at all to criticize, Hypocrites. You're all here for the very same reason" Maybe the girl and her mom/other friend/ect. go to bail the girl out and those people there are in captivity or are bailing out someone else.

anonymous November 11th, 2009 07:54PM  
This song means that you have to take life as it comes to you. "Life's like an hourglass glued to the table" - you can't "turn the hourglass over" and reverse time so to speak. This means you can't live in the past, you need to move on. "You can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable" - you can just avoid all your obstacles in life, you need to deal with them as they come. "Breathe" - just sit down, take a deep breath, and take it all in. Calm yourself; accept your mistakes; learn from them. "There's a light at each end of this tunnel, You shout 'cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out And these mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again If you only try turning around." You can't find an easy way out. Since you're as far in as you are out, just move forward, because going back will only cause you to make the mistakes you did before. Again, move on and learn from your mistakes.

anonymous November 17th, 2009 11:49PM  
"life's like an hourglass glued to the table" i think this means that you have one life, so spend it wisely before time runs out. i also think that this is your only life and you cant have a second chance to it (turning hourglass over but its glued), so let things happen and breathe