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I lie awake on a long, dark night
I can't seem to tame my mind
Slings and arrows are killing me inside
Maybe I can't accept the life that's mine
No, maybe I can't accept the life that's mine
Simple living is my desperate cry
Been trading love with indifference
and yeah it suits me just fine
I try to hold on but I'm calloused to the bone
Maybe that's why I feel alone
Yeah, maybe that's why I feel so alone
(Chorus)
'cause me, I'm rusted and weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels and
it just won't heal
I'm rusted and weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels and
it just won't heal
Naw, it just on't heal, no, no, no.
The sun shines and I can't avoid the light
I think I'm holding on to life too tight
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Sometimes I feel like giving up
yeah, I said,
Sometimes I feel like giving up
(Chorus)
It just won't heal, No.
The day reminds me of you
The night hides your truth
The earth is a voice
Speaking to you
Take all this pride
And leave it behind
'cause one day it ends
One day we die
Believe what you will
That is your right
But I choose to win
I choose to fight
To fight
'cause me, I'm rusted and weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels
and it just won't heal
I'm rusted and weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels
and it just won't,
covered with skin that peels
and it just won't
covered with skin that peels
and it just won't heal.
I can't seem to tame my mind
Slings and arrows are killing me inside
Maybe I can't accept the life that's mine
No, maybe I can't accept the life that's mine
Simple living is my desperate cry
Been trading love with indifference
and yeah it suits me just fine
I try to hold on but I'm calloused to the bone
Maybe that's why I feel alone
Yeah, maybe that's why I feel so alone
(Chorus)
'cause me, I'm rusted and weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels and
it just won't heal
I'm rusted and weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels and
it just won't heal
Naw, it just on't heal, no, no, no.
The sun shines and I can't avoid the light
I think I'm holding on to life too tight
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Sometimes I feel like giving up
yeah, I said,
Sometimes I feel like giving up
(Chorus)
It just won't heal, No.
The day reminds me of you
The night hides your truth
The earth is a voice
Speaking to you
Take all this pride
And leave it behind
'cause one day it ends
One day we die
Believe what you will
That is your right
But I choose to win
I choose to fight
To fight
'cause me, I'm rusted and weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels
and it just won't heal
I'm rusted and weathered
Barely holding together
I'm covered with skin that peels
and it just won't,
covered with skin that peels
and it just won't
covered with skin that peels
and it just won't heal.
Lyrics submitted by tremontisized
Track duration: 03:58
"Weathered" as written by Mark Tremonti, Scott Stapp
Lyrics © Chrysalis One Music
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The night hides your truth
The earth is a voice
Speaking to you
Take all this pride
And leave it behind"
The day and the light remind him of God or hope. Night hides the light and it may be harder to hold it all together, sort of like when, all of a sudden, your mind starts to slip. His pride may be preventing him from seeing the light and moving past the trench he's been dug up in all night. He must take his pride and leave it behind to overcome the obstacle it has become in his life. And in the end he chooses to keep fighting. Good song.
I can totally relate to both! fizzy, I can relate to some of what u said, I too have depression and this song hits home so much, sking that peels and it just wont heal and Im indiffernt because its easier than trying to fake being happy...
but also what preacherman said, I realte to as well because I sin, do stupid and impulsive things that I know are wrong, and do them out of loneliness , and am tortued with guilt during those times.
by anything because its happend alot hence rusted and weatherd, i dont know just a thought
So in the second verse he says, "simple living is my desperate cry. been trading love for indifference, and yeah, it suits me just fine." ppl who have been hurt over and over get to a place where they just want to be left alone. You get to a point where you stop aspiring for love and just hope ppl will not seek you out to hurt you. "I try to hold on but I'm calloused to the bone, maybe that's why I feel alone, maybe that's why I feel so alone." whenever an lyric writer repeats something it's really important. this is telling us that this attempt we make to protect ourselves by not caring about other ppl so they can't hurt us makes us feel even worse because we've pushed the whole world away.
The bridge changes the mode of writing, and de-personalized it (because remember, good writers don't just write for themselves, they want to contribute) and switches from telling a personal story to addressing everyone in the world who has ever felt the way that he spent the first three verses and the chorus illustrating: yeah, life sucks sometimes but we you can choose if your hard times will defeat you or if you will embrace the past to learn from it and make yourself wiser and stronger.
and by the way, "weathered" is the title of the song AND album, and it's found in the chorus, which means we need to pay special attention to it. weathered is a great word that symbolizes a person that has been through things that are so hard it's amazing they're still in one piece. something that is weathered looks kind of beat up, and a person that is weathered is someone that you can see them and you know they've been through a lot, but they still maintain healthy pride.