anonymous October 25th, 2006 12:51PM  
This song is about being pressured to be something more then you already are.

And it talks about feeling ashamed and not being able to be who you are meant.

anonymous September 13th, 2007 05:17PM  
Doesn't the Writing on the Walls refer to the fall of Babylon in The Bible?

anonymous December 22nd, 2007 01:02AM  
[Music Faith] What's the story being portrayed through the "Writing on the Walls" music video?

[Grant Brandell] It's basically a murder-mystery. The boy and the girl are in love and her father pulls them apart basically not allowing them to be together. There's a mentally unstable man in the apartment building that you basically are lead to believe is the killer until the end of the video when you learn the boy is through his eyes at the end of the video. That’s a broad, quick definition of the video.

thats what I found and I believe its pretty much the most accurate interpretation.

anonymous February 21st, 2009 09:08PM  
This song is about escaping the material things in life, and finding meaning to one's purpose. "I swear we need to find some comfort, in this, run down place" It goes along to portray the fact that we are all inferior, and that no one is perfect, but God loves us anyways "Taking back all the things i said, thinking back all the things i said" No matter if you think you're alone, God is always there "We walk alone....I remember, your presence"

anonymous March 15th, 2009 12:14AM  
so.. this song is definitely about a broken home. families that arent there and betraying each other essentially. this explains both the video and the song. funny how underoath has the extreme talent of getting into peoples heads.

Saprissa4eva July 4th, 2009 02:01AM  
This is what I Think this song is about....

Hes talking about himself, and how he just met God, or he was with God but decided to go out into the world and get lost again. So when he says..

"Maybe we, Why don't we sit right here for half an hour, well speak of what a Waste I am, And how we missed your beat again"
He's saying why is it that he never goes to church for that half and hour.. He's like asking himself that but then the second part "well speak of what a waste I am" Hes talking to God in Prayer saying that to God that his a a waste and that he missed his beat... He missed having that part of God in his heart.

"I swear we need to find some confort in this run down place." Again he is in the Prayer and he's telling Good to give him confort in his Rundown place which in that moment is his heart because he's Sinned and done so much bad without Regret but he's asking God to give him some Confort to help him Forget and regret.

"To Bridge the gap of this conscious stat that we live in" Is like saying to Bridge that Gap from this Life to Eternal life, Like Prayer.. as Ive been saying
"Im Short in time" Meaning he doesn't have forever to pray..

Then "How come you try and Bring us home, to Fit the shape of I pray for, what they tell you, you to move on, move on, But Mostly what they show you" This part is praying he's telling God Why do you try to bring me here Home (church) to Make (Fit) the shape (thing) that I pray for, he's basiclly telling God why do you bring me here, if you don't answer my prayer? of what I want to be....
And God Respondes What they tell you.. and What the show you, he's like saying because you keep living in the past seeing the things THEY say not what I say, and God then says Move on, Move on.. like stop living in the past, today is a new day...

Then the he states "at this rate we can't keep up" like saying God we're on two different pages I don't have enough faith.. and then he says " Im thinking back on the thins I said.." Because He said something in the past to others that he regrets and he knows it..
Then God says "But sure I can't just sit still, Keep me filled in.. I swear ill come.." He's saying allow me to come in... and then when God Hears this he tells him to keep praying that he will come....

When he says we walk alone, he's in his head still praying, taking a walk with God, having a conversation with him... alone back home.. Is simply saying Gods walking him back to reality.. meaning the prayers almost over...

Your almost gone and I'm okay means that altho the prayers almost over the boy feels okay... And he still sees Gods shadow... meaning He knows Gods still with him...And then he just states that he will remember Gods Prescense...
Then he's praying saying I Hope to God you come down, I hope to God you can feel this now, he's praying that .. And then I know there must be some way out of here and all of them will be waiting there.. Is Saying that the person knows there's a way out of the Bad things out of Sin... and all of them as in God and angels are waiting In heaven for him.....

In my opinion I think mines pretty close... lol

I HOPE SOME OF YOU GUYS ACTUALLY READ THIS BECAUSE I THINK ITS PRETTY DARN CLOSE =]

God bless!

anonamous August 1st, 2009 10:08PM  
i think when he talks about how a waste he is, its because he feels helpless.an hes talking to a girl. and he thinks they are each others comfort in thier broken home.and he wonder why she trys to please the crazy people with them in the broken home.he tells her to move on he takes back the stuff he said ( like each other bein comfort).cause he cant let life keep going this way. he feels like hes just alone. everyones just alone.so she moves on an hes glad, but he will always remember how it was good wen they were together.and he hopes she will realize that she doesnt have to please those people. cause there is a way out of a broken life.

anonymous September 27th, 2009 10:16AM  
ha...ppl check out the UO777 dvd...when they play ths song spencer screams : MY LOST FRIEND sometime in the soft part of ths song...that should make it pretty clear thats what its about..and it makes sense if u read the lyrics

vickaykarlmacrazy February 22nd, 2010 12:13PM  
I don't know how some people could think this song is about god, this song is seriously a work of art, and it expresses emotions not found in every being, but if found in yourself you'll know what I mean, the emotions of a worked body that had been through pain and tear, and this song is expressing still, the pain and tear, and it helped me express a lot when I went though this time, I thank this band for creating such a thing.