Staind – So Far Away

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  General Comment:Great song. I feel as if it's about being on drugs, and escaping all anxieties and fears. He's in a dream, and not his true self. He realizes he'll eventually come down, but doesn't want anyone to wake him up from the change in mind set. Near the end of the song where he says "I'm so afraid of waking
  Please don't shake me", I feel as if that is the point where he is coming down hard, and wants to stay on cloud 9. The chorus then comes back into play signifying him getting high again. Cocaine is a devil of a drug.

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  My Interpretation:the moment i heard this song it stuck in my mind as a rock concert and the indescribable euphoric feeling of playing your first gig to a sea of admirers and spilling your heart and soul into your music when words and thoughts and feelings you've never showed anyone before is met with god like love and connection as the vibration of the bass and the love of the crowd sends tingles through every inch of your body.
  and while onstage you notice something. there is no malice. there is no hatred. there is none of the evil that plagues our world, there is only 10,000 people exactly like you, hearts mended into one as all of the worlds cares are ripped away leaving you with nothing but the sheer brotherhood of music holding us together, finally able to not be ashamed for who you are. you question your senses, "is this real? is it just a dream? how could something so beautiful exist in this harsh, cold world? i must be dreaming.
  and the thing with concerts is that once you've felt the transcendence of music, truly realized the potential of the human heart, you never want to leave... unfortunately all things must come to an end as you scream to the sky for waking from this beautiful dream not to come.
  
  anyone else feel similar?

  Flag VladimirLPon January 25, 2013   Link

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    Amazingly said.

    Flag Jexcaon February 13, 2013  

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    Amazingly said.

    Flag Jexcaon February 13, 2013  
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  General Comment:i think so far away is talking about the lead singers life and how he struggled to become a rockstar and how thought that he would never make it and now that he did make it all the struggles that he once had is now in vein and everyday he thinks he is having a dream and can't believe that he actually made it!!!!

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  General Comment:For me this song is about recovery. I've been in and out of NA for 12 years and just now am I really starting to get the program, to work the 12 steps and turn my around. For about 15 years I was locked in addiction and never really learned to process my emotions. And now in recovery, I've gone from feeling completely spiritually dead to truly feeling alive. The dope took my soul and recovery is giving it back, as well as my life back. I OD'd and nearly died in 1997, been locked up in institutions and now am free from the incredible horrors of the disease of addiction, which has not one ounce of compassion for human life. This song brings me to tears. This song to me is about acceptance but acceptance gained through the twelve steps. Only those who have felt the bitter pain of addiction:the self-loathing, the shame, the guilt, the misery, the feelings of worthlessness, the sheer pain that comes from completely hating yourself, spending your whole life, believing your not as good as everybody else, to truly stop caring about life and just not caring about anything can really understand what it's life to truly come alive again, to deal with your past and come into acceptance about who you are as a person and begin to change your entire life can really understand how incredible the feeling is. It is such an amazing feeling, that's why he says "Somebody shake me cause I must be sleeping"-It's like he's saying I can't believe how incredible my life has become, that's what it means to me anyways...

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    *same*

    Flag babyjadeon November 26, 2011  
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  General Comment:This is one of my favorite songs ever! After 8 years it still gives me chills.
  
  I believe it's about a man who has had hard life and decided to go far away "now that we're here so far away" from his previous life. After he ran, he finds someone who he truly loves and can't believe he's with her. He feels that he is able to show her his life and how screwed-up it is and through the struggles and pain in his life he's finally found meaning and the mistakes go away from his mind because they don't matter anymore. Beautiful song.

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  Song Meaning:I feel like this song is about overcoming drug addiction. "all these feelings i have shared" and "All the mistakes, one life contained they all finally start to go away" Like looking back at all the horrible things you've done and all the people you've hurt and thinking "I must be sleeping".
  And finally when your pride is broken and you can really see and except who you are now...
  "Now that we are here its so far away, and i feel like i can face the day, and i can forgive, and i am not ashamed, to be the person that i am today"

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  General Comment:This is a great song about taking all of your past mistakes and learning from them to become stronger and gain more wisdom on life.

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  My Interpretation:This songs sums up my feelings as a newly saved and recovered soul. I was addicted to drugs and alcohol and lived a very unhealthy lifestyle prior to knowing Jesus Christ..that lifestlyle I used to know, that made me feel so much shame is "so far away" all the negative feeling about myself have diminished.....praise God!

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  Song Meaning:Well I first heard this song several years ago and it made me cry. My life wasn't easy growing up and I thought that I would end up just like everyone around me. At the time it gave me hope that one day I could feel the way Aaron Lewis did when he wrote that song. Well..fast forward almost 7 years later and here I am with my dream job and the person I have loved since forever. My life has changed completely and all the mistakes I had made actually taught me alot..
  
  I'm not ashamed either to be the person that I am today. In fact I'm very proud of myself and hope to never wake up from this life that I now consider my dream.
  
  Thank you Staind for making an amazing song.

  Flag pinkrays22on June 27, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:He wrote this song after his first son was born. Maybe as a child is looking at his father he/she will see the father he is today and nothing from the past.. and therefor non of that bad stuff from his past even matters anymore.

  Flag LadyScorpioon September 15, 2009   Link

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