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Spicylollipop
February 19th, 2009 02:40AM
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When I heard this song, I honestly thought this song was really meant for the men and women in the militart.
In every stanza, I could make a connection to something my fiancee in the Army has said about his life and to everything I think he must feel.
Now I know that this song was written to be about moving away from your parents and starting your own life, but this is what this song means to me.
"My eyes are open wide
By the way I made it through the day
I watch the world outside
By the way I'm leaving out today"
He once told me that on the eve of the day he has to ship out, he can't believe the way he spent his last day, that he usually thinks of a million other ways he could have spent it.
"Well I just saw Hayley's comet, she waved
Said "why you always running in place?
Even the man in the moon disappeared
Somewhere in the stratosphere"
When I hear this particular part, I think about the way our lives are now and how compared to all of our non-military friends, I feel we are standing still. Everything we do has to work around the military and his duties as a soldier.
"Tell my mother, tell my father
I've done the best I can
To make them realize
This is my life
I hope they understand
I'm not angry, I'm just saying
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance?"
His parents still haven't gotten used to the fact that he has to be thousands of miles away and that I'm just as important to him as they are. My parents aren't happy that I relocated with him. Obviously our families are the most important things in our lives, but now he is my family. In order to start our lives with each other, we have to to say goodbye to our lives with them as they were before.
"Please don't cry one tear for me
I'm not afraid of what I have to say
This is my one and only voice
So listen close, it's only for today"
To me this is one of the most beautiful parts of the song.
When I'm sad before he leaves, he tells me not to cry that we aren't going to have to live like this forever, but for now, this is something that he needs to do. That there's people who need his help as much as I need him, but that we have our whole future to look forward to.
brianrosen
May 4th, 2009 01:39AM
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This song really gets to me because I feel like there are many parallels in my life. Lead singer Brent Smith said: "It's important for you to hear this.. when I grew up, everyone was ok with being in a bubble. They were cool in their circle. That's fine. But no one should discourage someone if they have a dream, if they want something more [...] This song was difficult for me to write the lyrics to because it's about my mother and my father, and about the day I said goodbye to them, because I had to go try, and I'm still trying every day, to become a man. So, this song is about that. It's about the moment that you wake up and you decide you want to go for every single dream you ever want."
I think that it can have a multitude of meanings. There could be parallels make with dating and relationships where, after one person says goodbye, the relationship becomes stronger. I guess the song is kind of the idea of the latin phrase "succisa virescit," when cut down it grows back stronger. Once something is ended it can come back better or stronger than before. Even though it may be tough to keep hope, this song really helps me and I find comfort in its words.
