anonymous November 4th, 2007 08:37AM  

I think that this song is about how people can feel lost in this world. The protagonist feels lost in this mixed up world, and she feels that she doesn't belong anywhere, probably because she doesn't fit into any social group. She then performs an exodus, so she runs away from her 'home', which could just mean she runs away from everyone, and retreats to the darkness of the shadows, because:
'Here in the shadows, I'm safe, I'm free...'
She might feel that this is the only place she belongs, which leads from the lyric:
'I've nowhere else to go, but I cannot stay where I don't belong...'
I think that this song can be related to by a lot of people, people who eel that they don't fit anywhere in this crazy mixed up world. I know I can relate to it, and it is one of my favourite songs of all time, because I can listen to it and know every word is believable, because I've gone through it all.

anonymous November 4th, 2007 09:15AM  

I think that the 'So much more dismay in empty eyes' could mean that her life has been filled to the brim with dismay, and her eyes may be empty because she's committed suicide. When she feels she doesn't belong anywhere, she may have 'gone into the shadows' by committing suicide. She has 'nowhere else to go but she can't stay where she doesn't belong'.
Hope that helps your query =)

anonymous November 8th, 2007 05:07PM  

Well, I've always thought it was about someones parents disapproving of all the things she's done
"so much more dismay in empty eyes"
sounds like my parents lol!
that makes it fit even more :D

anonymous December 19th, 2007 11:11PM  

Okay, this is about how she feels that she doesn't belong, of course.

We've all felt it before. Your sitting in the middle of a crowded room and you start to think. Why am I here? What is my purpose? Why don't I fit in like everyone else does? Maybe I don't really belong here. Maybe I'm not even supposed to be here....

The song takes you through a story basically.

A girl, possibly Amy, had never once complained before about feeling out of place. She always just stayed where she was told to.
But inside, she was screaming. She needed an escape. She needed to leave the life that deep down, she knew was all a lie.
So she packs up her stuff into a black back pack. Which I think, is symbolic in that it represents all the blackness in her life. Throughout the years, she had been slowing stuffing her life and soul into a black hole. Hoping that someday things would get better, but instead, she lost anything that would make her even remotely comfortable where she was.

And after she leaves, she doesn't turn back. She knows that she can't. It would cause too much confusion. And why go back when there was nothing there for her. Remember that black hole? Nobody can feel comfortable living in a life- sucking hole.

However, she doesn't know where she is going to go. So she stays on the side lines....in the shadows where no one can see her or hurt her.....
she doesn't know how to get along in the world without hiding.
The shadows comfort her, and give her a reason to stay where she is.
And where she is...is no where. She's wondering around trying to find a way to somehow come out of the dark....


The last lines in the song were very well written.

"Show me the shadow where true meaning lies, so much more dismay in empty eyes...."

She wants there to be an answer for why she is roaming the earth....
All her life, she has been a loner, she has been different from the rest.
if the shadows are the only places she feels comfortable, then there must be some truth lying within them....if only she could find that truth....

and when she realizes that she can't find it after all the searching, her eyes fill with dismay. They are always filled with sadness and they always will be until something changes.
until she finds the answers she is looking for....

deadcalm January 29th, 2008 08:58PM  

Yeah, I think it's about running away, trying to escape the hardships of life and that being in the dark is safer but longing to belong somewhere soon.

anonymous May 12th, 2008 06:32PM  

I think that this song is a story about a runaway girl. She never metioned anything or complained about where she lived or how she felt, but she still decides to leave home. In the chorus, the shadows that she mentions means the place where she is hiding, where she is safe and free. There's no one she can go to, but she knows she can not stay where she doesn't belong. She continues hiding and soon winter comes, making it cold and adding difficulty to survival. The girl knows the way home, so she knows she's not lost, she's just alone, because as I mentioned before, she has no one. But she's no going to give up, cry, and go back, because she knows there's no turning back now. Her experiance has woken her up and she now knows who she really is and where she really belongs- alone, in the shadows. I think that the lines "Show me the shadow where true meaning lies. So much more dismay in empty eyes" means that she wants to be shown something true, for perhaps she lived a life of lies and her parents only pretended to love her. If she not shown truth or is lied to yet again, there will be even more dismay in her hopeless ("empty") eyes.

anonymous July 14th, 2008 04:56AM  

I think Exodus is of a person who left everything behind and has now realised that where she is she doesn't belong and all that she's left with are memories of her past and a broken future and she's lost but at the same time she has to move on cause it hurts too much to be around the person.