Blue October - Worry List Meaning

1. anonymous

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   Dec 27th 2023 !⃝

   Sounds like it was written after some deep self-reflection. When you get to that point, your life is full of regret. It’s hard to live with the butterfly effect you create when people that love you, watch you burn it all down. If you survive, you will realize the little things you did were life changing for people close to you. That’s a hard thing to live with. It took me a long time to see how the things I did affected others. I left everything to fate, that’s what you do when you hate yourself, you open the door to things that can and will kill you, you would literary bleed out if it stopped the pain you caused. I feel like the song is simple for some to understand, they lived it, even when you stop the drugs/alcohol the damage is there, and you know you’ve no one to blame. In the line where he said he never walked away, I feel like he wants his daughter and ex to know that he didn’t stop loving them, they were always with him, he just couldn’t be with them, when you are addicted you are poison to the ones you love, no matter how hard you try, you break their hearts because the person you were once is dying right in front of them.
2. anonymous

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   Oct 6th 2022 !⃝

   As one who struggled with addiction and made some really shitty decisions, I got divorced and lost my family in the process.
   The one thing that matters most in my world is my daughter. And, I know a higher power exists because of her.
   The pain of not being in each others lives, feeling as strangers, it’s a song for both to heal and move forward.
   It’s a statement of love, heartbreak, pain, and a path to redemption. At the end of the day, independent of the level of involvement that my daughter chooses to be in my life, I will always love her and, hey, I’ll be okay.
   
   
   
3. anonymous

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   May 2nd 2019 !⃝

   Justin said he wrote the Worry List after he had lost Blue and had been in a mental hospital. He lost Blue because of the songs The End, Dirt Room and Any Man in America, specifically the lyrics 'fuck the judge, fuck the county, fuck your family too' He started using again and wrote this song as a message to Blue.
4. anonymous

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   Apr 27th 2018 !⃝

   Wrong.
   
   Hes telling his ex wife not to worry about him,that he is fine and he doesn't want her crap. He just wants to see his daughter because she is playing games and taking his time away.
   He was on the road when she left him for another man and took their daughter with her.
   He is saying that he may have been gone (on the road) but he never walked out of the relationship and away from their daughter (because she left when he was touring).
   He believes god exists because he held her in his arms (his daughter).
   He misses Blu(e) but the mother keeps playing games and taking his custody and visitations away.
   He's telling his daughter not to worry about him because he will always be there for her and that Daddy will always fix everything.
5. Atomixx

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   Dec 16th 2015 !⃝

   He's telling his daughter and his wife to not worry about him, he's ok and he'll make it home one day.

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