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3 Doors Down – Sarah Yellin' Lyrics 19 years ago
Actually, I think the song implies sexual abuse as well, hence the line "she stood at the foot of the guilty bed last night"

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3 Doors Down – When I'm Gone Lyrics 19 years ago
I got to really thinking about the lyrics to this song and although the obvious interpretations are either the war in Iraq or a relationship with a girl, I think the song may be about suicide. Before you dismiss the idea as ridiculous, listen to some of my interpretations on the lyrics.

'There's another world inside of me that you may never see"- A lot of people who are depressed or suicidal don't like to talk about their deepest feelings and what is making them feel the way they do.

'Somewhere in this darkness there's a light that I can't find'- He desperatley wants to find something that will make him happy and want to stay alive.

"When your education X-ray cannot see under my skin"- By education X-ray I think he means a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist is educated and they try to see through people to figure out their problems, hence the education X-ray which cannot see what is wrong with him."I won't tell you a damn thing that I could not tell my friends"- And if he can't talk to his friends about the problem he sure as hell isn't going to tell some doctor.

"Now roaming through this darkness I'm alive but I'm alone"-he's still alive but his life is lonely and surrounded by darkness. "Part of me is fighting this but part of me is gone"- part of him is trying to fight this urge to kill himself but the other part of him is already dead.
The chorus is probably directed toward everyone in his life that is important: friends, family, a lover to comfort him while he is still here and love him when he is gone, when he finally takes his life. Anyone else think I might be on to something here? If I think of this song as being about Iraq, it comepletely ruins it for me because I think Bush is a moron and the whole war in Iraq is a big fucking joke.

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