Linkin Park: Iridescent Meaning
Song Released: 2011
Iridescent Lyrics
When you were waiting on the edge of the unknown
With the cataclysm raining down
Your insides crying, "Save me now"
You were there, impossibly alone.
Do you feel cold and lost in...
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anonymous Mar 29th 2011, 09:54 report
I think this song is about looking at all the bad things that have happened in your life and forgetting about them. Telling people to look at the good things instead of the bad ones, especially in hard times.
"Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?" Someone who does or has felt lost and that every thing is hopeless.
"You build up hope but failures all you've known." someone who keeps trying and trying but nothings going their way no matter what.
"Remember all the sadness and frustration and let it go." Like i said before, don't keep worrying about you past, and don't bottle up everything inside, learn to move on to happier things :) -
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anonymous Jan 23rd 2011, 21:49 report
I think this song is about releasing all the bad times in your life and just letting it all go. It could also mean that no matter what, there is one person out there who understands you and can help you. You just need let go of all the bad times, and go find them.
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anonymous Jun 29th 2011, 13:56 report
I think the song is about a person who is going through a self destructive period of life 'You were standing in the wake of devastation' and this is due to their 'failures'
the song is telling them to 'Let it go' because if they don't they won't mend.
I also think that when mike sings 'And in a burst of life that blinded every angel' it symbolizes new life because it could be representative of the big bang 'sky had blown the heavens into stars'
I am not saying this is the offical meaning behind the song. it is just my interpretation of the lyrics of a brilliant song -
anonymous May 7th, 23:00 report
This song is about all the frustrations in life and how people actually come to deal with them and forget about those problems.
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anonymous Apr 24th 2012, 03:58 report
I think this song is about looking at all the bad things that have happened in your life and forgetting them. It also tells us to look at the good things instead of the bad ones, especially in hard and difficult times.
the lyrics :"Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?" suggests that someone who is lost and that everything is hopeless.
Another part of the lyrics states says:"You build up hope but failures all you've known." It means someone who keeps trying and trying but nothing’s going their way no matter what.
The last sentence of the lyrics says: "Remember all the sadness and frustration and let it go." It means that don't keep worrying about the past, and don't bottle up everything inside. Learn to move on to happier things in life. -
anonymous Mar 1st 2012, 18:18 report
I think a lot of people didn't understand that A Thousand Suns is a socio-political concept album.
"When you were standing in the wake of devastation
When you were waiting on the edge of the unknown
With the cataclysm raining down
Your insides crying, Save me now
You were there, impossibly alone."
Atomic bombs are falling from the sky (wake of devastation, cataclysm raining down). People don't know what is going to happen and have fear (waiting in the edge of the unknown, insides crying "save me now").
"And in a burst of light that blinded every angel
As if the sky had blown the heavens into stars
You felt the gravity of tempered grace
Falling into empty space
With no one there to catch you in their arms."
The explosions killed a lot of innocent lives (burst of light that blinded every angel) and made a lot of mess (sky had blown the heavens into stars).
Some people survived (felt the gravity of tempered grace), but then found themselves in a place flattened by the bombs (Falling into empty space) and without their family (no one there to catch you in their arms).
"Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up all the failures, all you've known.
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go.
Let it go."
Survivors feel desperate, lost and realize all their failures in the past.
Chester gives them an advice: remember the sadness and frustration of the human past (the actual society) and let it go (build up a new, better world). -
anonymous Jan 10th 2012, 06:41 report
it's about letting go of the past and bad things that happend and having no shame in doing so espeacially when you personally know you were good at what you done even when results that seem pretty unfair that you were not expecting and theres nothing much you can do about it and not feel frustated about it due to the the fact that it was a turning point of your life with failiure as the only thing often came across and no there to support you. So just let it go just keep doing what you do best and don't linger onto negativity you can't change and someone will always believe in even though it may not seem so.
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anonymous Oct 21st 2011, 07:31 report
My interpretation of this song is that it is for all the soldiers in war. I think it's telling them that, yeah, you might've messed up, but that's okay. It gets better.
I think it's telling them to remember the friends and comrades they lost, but not to blame themselves for their deaths. Don't hold yourself responsible for all the things that went wrong; learn from them, and grow. -
anonymous Oct 1st 2011, 01:23 report
My interpretation is that the singer is trying to get over the bad things in his past by looking the future
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anonymous Sep 12th 2011, 08:41 report
This is a very inspirational song for all of those who are going through hard times, You have to let go of your past because the past will never change, you may not be able to change the past but you can create a better future for yourself by keeping your head up and not letting anyone bring you down. That's what I've started doing ever since I heard this song and it's worked out great, I'm sure all of you will be able to do the same. As the great Chester Bennington says "Remember all the sadness and frustration, and let it go." LP forever God bless.
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anonymous Aug 5th 2011, 00:56 report
This song happen to make sense with the way transformers 3 was set up ha. No wonder its the theme song.
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anonymous Jun 21st 2011, 00:09 report
this song is telling us about the doomsday of the earth. there is nothing can hold on to. the phrase : "You build up all the failures, all you've known.
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go."
means that you realized that you have made a mistake in your whole life but, you wants to relive back as the way before and did not want to make any sins anymore.
the phrase : "And in a burst of light that blinded every angel
As if the sky had blown the heavens into stars
You felt the gravity of tempered grace
Falling into empty space
With no one there to catch you in their arms."
means that when everything you see in the doomsday, it is like the mother earth has raged and throwing all single life in the earth away. -
anonymous Jun 17th 2011, 23:30 report
I believe this song is about everything bad in your life, coming to haunt you. You can never live in the present instead of the past. Since you ARE living in the past...You're utterly depressed and try not to cry over what HAD happened, but you do. This song says you SHOULD live in the present. You SHOULD let go of your past. You SHOULD never forget, but also never let it bother you. Some people think living in the past is the only option, but it's not. If you let it go...You'll have a happier life...
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anonymous Apr 4th 2011, 07:35 report
Best song of this album.It means that a person should not be hopless and always try to think an idea to forget the past.This all makes a person confident to bear pain.
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anonymous Mar 26th 2011, 05:00 report
Its a hopeful song for someone, who has, give up hope.The song said let it go, meaning look at everything that's gone wrong in you life its in the pass so let it go. It's for someone who has been going though a very hard time for a long and its kinda reached it climb max and now its time move on. this songs means lot me, its timeless . x
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