This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Brother, can you hear me?
Your life is in my hands
I will not surrender, never yield to his demands
If we stand together, we will never fall
Brother, we're the answer to your call
Brother, can you hear me?
You must not be afraid
I will march beside you
Have no fear
Be strong
Be brave
We sing this song for freedom
Our voices will resound
Brother, we will never let you down
On the road to revolution
We're bound to make mistakes
There's a price that we must pay
For every choice we make
Freedom is the reason
To stand up or give in
But someone has to lose
And someone has to win
Brother, can you hear me?
I am not afraid
I will not forsake you
I'll be strong and I'll be brave
I sing the song for freedom
My courage knows no bounds
Brother, know I stand on solid ground
Brother, I will never let you down
Never let you down
Your life is in my hands
I will not surrender, never yield to his demands
If we stand together, we will never fall
Brother, we're the answer to your call
Brother, can you hear me?
You must not be afraid
I will march beside you
Have no fear
Be strong
Be brave
We sing this song for freedom
Our voices will resound
Brother, we will never let you down
On the road to revolution
We're bound to make mistakes
There's a price that we must pay
For every choice we make
Freedom is the reason
To stand up or give in
But someone has to lose
And someone has to win
Brother, can you hear me?
I am not afraid
I will not forsake you
I'll be strong and I'll be brave
I sing the song for freedom
My courage knows no bounds
Brother, know I stand on solid ground
Brother, I will never let you down
Never let you down
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Plastic Bag
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“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
This is the first song that Dream Theater wrote with someone that is not in the band.
It was written by John Myung and Desmond Child(the "'80s rock hit-maker"). DT's producer at that time, Kevin Shirley listened to the song and felt it needed stronger more powerful chorus and that's how Desmod got invovled and this master piece is the outcome. :)
-- This is, of course, not the meaning of this great song, just some background...
Bad by Dream Theater standards, but excellent by any other
This song is a bit too "pop" like... of course, for a rock song. Dream Theater really should've kept this a b-side I think... they would have been much better off with something like Eve. It's kinda catchy though... but not for Dream Theater fans. Of course, they know this already :P
Funny enough, though, this was their hit song on MTV back in the days... :)
I think Cover My Eyes could have possibly been in place of this song or maybe Take Away My Pain or Just Let Me Breathe. Yeah. Cover My Eyes instead of Just Let Me Breathe. I'm so burning Falling Into Infinity like that. It's too bad I'll never get to see Dream Theater on MTV or anything, I think that'd be pretty cool, lol. Not that I'd actually see any music on MTV anyway =P
If you ever get a chance, pick up Dream Theater's "Trial of Singles". Its a collection of demos and rare songs...They have the original of this on there, and IMO, the original blows this out of the water. The chorus, the most "pop" part is very different, there's another keyboard section...much better overall.
This song is so bad lol
Dream Theater kick ass!
And, btw, Petrucci and Child wrote this, not Myung.
Like all other Dream Theater lyrics, these aren't much good, outside writer or not. There are much better ways of saying "I want to live my life, not yours."
"Like all other DT lyrics?"
Are are you that songs such as "A Change of Seasons", "In the Name of God", "Learning to Live" and plenty others have /bad/ lyrics?
I completely and utterly disagree.