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Lyrics:
We all have a weakness
But some of ours are easy to identify. Look me in the eye
And ask for forgiveness;
we'll make a pact to never sp...
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anonymous
May 19th, 2008 11:27PM
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I believe this song has a lot to do with love and self-hatred. The person singing is someone who hates himself, and he is singing to someone who has said they love him. His weakness is this self hate he has inside and there is conflict between him and the person he's singing to because that person's love reveals his weakness (a weakness he does not want to see. A weakness he runs away from). Hence the lines "ask for forgiveness" and "we'll make a pact to never speak that word again, yes, you are my friend."
His ego, which is in part fed by his determination to run away from his weakness, causes him to do things he feels guilty or ashamed about. So the singer creates this distinction between the person now who has done the guilty and shameful things and the innocent person from yesterday.
Alas:
"when weakness turns my ego up
I know you'll count on the me from yesterday."
"if I turn into another" (i.e, if he turns into someone other than the innocent one from yesterday)
The singer also asks the person to find the him from yesterday. To 'dig' up in a sense his exterior shell, his ego and defensive personality mechanisms that is hiding the him from yesterday. The idea of 'digging' is quite emotionally intense, because his ego and defensiveness obviously does everything it can to reject the person who is desperately trying to find him, because he wants to hide away from the fact that he is weak. Despite this, he makes a cry for that person to dig him up. There is a part inside him that is desperately asking to be loved and this is part of the song I find the saddest.
"dig me up from under what is covering
the better part of me. "
He wants to be assured, that despite his hostile behaviour and self hatred, that the person that loves him will always be there.. I guess in a sense it gives the singer some kind of hope that there is always a possibility that he can be loved.
"Remind me that we'll always have each other when everything else is gone."
anonymous
August 5th, 2007 02:22AM
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This seems to be about people's ability to annoy each other. Especially the people closest to you, like your family and closest friends, know how to hurt you more than the average person does. It's like when you say that someone knows how to "push your buttons," or, in this song, "we all have something that digs at us." It's about people's ability to hurt each other, but in the end, we bring out "the better part of me" and forgive each other.
anonymous
August 31st, 2007 09:59PM
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This song is about how sometimes people change for the worse, or do things that have bad consequences for themselves. The singer is asking someone that if that ever happens, to please bring him back from the bad place where he's gone, and to remind him that they'll always have each other and be there for each other.
nalnakee
May 1st, 2008 08:13PM
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I'm pretty sure this song is about how people have a tendency to attack people when they themselves feel vulnerable. "When weakness turns my ego up" meaning becoming defensive and throwing something back to make yourself seem stronger when you are anything but. "We all have someone that digs at us" We all have someone that make us feel they are better than us and the line "at least we dig each other" Im pretty sure means two people equally trying to intimidate the other, not cheesy at all!
delilahjosephine
December 20th, 2008 10:55PM
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I think this song could be about Incubus' fame. He's talking about his ego and turning into someone else which can happen to people when they start touring and getting famous they forget where they come from and who they are. So he might be asking her to basically keep him down to earth and not let him forget who he is and where he came from and not to forget the people who were always there for him cause not everyone will always be there for you. He's saying don't let the fame go to his head "If I turn into another, dig me out from under what is covering the better part of me. sing this song, remind me that we'll always have each other when everything else is gone".
anonymous
February 2nd, 2009 09:06AM
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"We all have someone that digs us
At least we dig eachother"
- I think this means that even though we've had past trouble, heartbreak.. we have eachother now.
anonymous
March 3rd, 2009 12:45AM
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This song has particular meaning to me as it seems to really speak to a situation I am dealing with. The only problem is the person it truly applies to I don't think gets this. She is going through some crap in her life, and doesn't think that she is worthy of anyone loving her or caring about her. I've seen the better part of her, and she doesn't realize that she can rely on me (or anyone for that matter) to dig up that better part of her if these weaknesses/issues turn her into something else on a given day. This song is amazing on so many levels, as it obviously has multiple meanings for a lot of people.
anonymous
June 26th, 2009 12:11PM
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This is my VERY favorite Incubus song. EVER.
I have it set as my ringtone for when my best friend/soul sister calls. =p
The way I see it, is similarly mentioned above.
Basically, we are all human, we all have flaws, but at least we have each other, and if we start to suck, we can pull each other out of it. +)
My best friend and I have been through a ton together. I am not a teenager, I am an adult with children and she and I have been close from childhood. We have seen each other in a million different forms but have always been able to see each other for who we really are, even when we're not at our best, and help each other through it when we're at our lowest. I really feel that is what this song is about.............
=)
anonymous
October 18th, 2009 04:48PM
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I believe it's about two friends. But one sees the other as more than a friend. 'To never speak that word again, yes you are my friend'. Even though he loves her, he promises not to try to make her feel the same, else risk their friendship. 'So when weakness turns my ego up, I know you'll count on me from yesterday'. His weakness is his love, and sometimes he can't control it, so he knows that she'll forgive him for occasionally showing it. 'Remind me that we'll always have each other when everything else is gone'. Through everything that they both go through, involving other people or both of them, because they're just friends they can always count on each other, and not worry about a friendship faltering because of a relationship they could have together.
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