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The boy's gone. The boy's gone home.
What will happen to a face in the crowd when it finally gets too crowded.
And will happen to the origins of sound after all the sounds have sounded
Well I hope I never have to see that day but by god I know it's headed our way
So I better be happy now that the boy's going home. The boy's gone home.
And what becomes of a day for those who rage against it
And who will sum op the phrase for all left standing around in it
Well I suppose we'll all make our judgement call
We'll walk it alone, stand up tall, then march to the fall
So we better be happy now that we'll all go home.
Be so happy with the way you are
Be so happy that you made it this far
Go on be happy now. Please be happy now
Because this is something else
this is something else
I tried to live my life and live it so well
But when it's all over is it heaven or is it hell
I better be happy now that no one can tell, nobody knows
I'm gonna be happy with the way that I am
I'm gonna be happy with all that I stand for
I'm gonna be happy now because the boy's going home.
The boy's gone home.
What will happen to a face in the crowd when it finally gets too crowded.
And will happen to the origins of sound after all the sounds have sounded
Well I hope I never have to see that day but by god I know it's headed our way
So I better be happy now that the boy's going home. The boy's gone home.
And what becomes of a day for those who rage against it
And who will sum op the phrase for all left standing around in it
Well I suppose we'll all make our judgement call
We'll walk it alone, stand up tall, then march to the fall
So we better be happy now that we'll all go home.
Be so happy with the way you are
Be so happy that you made it this far
Go on be happy now. Please be happy now
Because this is something else
this is something else
I tried to live my life and live it so well
But when it's all over is it heaven or is it hell
I better be happy now that no one can tell, nobody knows
I'm gonna be happy with the way that I am
I'm gonna be happy with all that I stand for
I'm gonna be happy now because the boy's going home.
The boy's gone home.
Lyrics submitted by rjbucs28
Track duration: 04:39
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My opinion is that 'the boy' is an important component here - it's the title and a repeated element. The words God, Judgment, Heaven and Hell are in the mix so I think it's fair to say his point he's alluding to something about the end time.
Someone made a point that Jason writes about relationships and other subjects but I think an artist of this caliber can't be easily pigeonholed. Life has a lot of concerns and topics for everyone. Jason's art reflects the reality of many.
Peace.
What will happen to a face in the crowd when it finally gets too crowded.**
We all die alone. What will happen to us, as individuals when our world ends?
**And will happen to the origins of sound after all the sounds have sounded**
Where do all the people go, as a group, when we're not doing our thing any longer? Jason thinks the world will end.
**Well I hope I never have to see that day but by god I know it's headed our way**
Hopes to die before life changes to whatever comes after what we see here, apparently doesn't think it'll be good.
**So I better be happy now that the boy's going home. The boy's gone home.**
Who is the boy? Where is home?
**And what becomes of a day for those who rage against it
And who will sum up the phrase for all left standing around in it**
“It” in these lines refers to “a day,” Apparently the day the world will end, considering context.
But how could a day be affected by the sentiments of people? It couldn't, so perhaps the first line is asking, “what will become of those who object to the end of the world/god ending the world?”
2nd line: “Who will explain the meaning of life when it's over?”
Jason is wondering if we'll be told the meaning of this life, and who god is.
**Well I suppose we'll all make our judgement call
We'll walk it alone, stand up tall, then march to the fall**
We'll all stand before a higher power to be judged in light of “right v.s. wrong,” and each person will be judged according to their own lives. No excuses can be made, so what's done is done. “then march to the fall” implies that everyone is doomed. No one will come out good enough, and there's no escaping that.
**So we better be happy now that we'll all go home.**
Earlier we asked two questions: Who is the boy, and where is home?Now we see Jason's saying there's a place each person is destined to wind up, (hence calling it home: where you belong) after they've been judged for their inevitably inferior lives.
I don't get the impression that he's saying “Home” is a single place we all go, so much as the term for wherever people wind up, (imagine you tell your friends, “let's go home, guys,” you don't mean that everyone comes to your house, you mean “let's go to our respective homes”).
So this line is interesting, because before we all “march to the fall,” and now we'd “better be happy we'll all go home.” Sounds like, rather than saying we'll feel happy to be going “home”, he's saying, “we're all forced to go home, so we must make our peace with it.” Almost sarcastic.
**Be so happy with the way you are
Be so happy that you made it this far
Go on be happy now. Please be happy now**
I don't imagine this part is directed at the listener, but at Jason himself. He's almost forced to be happy with the way he is because, as implied in the previous part, everything we do is set, and life is an individual experience, meaning there's no help for you. If you're screwed up, make your peace with it. There's no reason to believe there's a savior, or a way to make up for your mistakes. As Jason embraces the idea that he's responsible for his own actions, he tells himself to embrace everything about himself, because it's something he has to live with, and cannot undo.
**I tried to live my life and live it so well
But when it's all over is it heaven or is it hell**
He's tried to be a good person, but he wonders if he's good enough to deserve heaven at the end.
**I better be happy now that no one can tell, nobody knows**
He once again tells himself to make peace with the idea that he doesn't know where he's headed.
**I'm gonna be happy with the way that I am
I'm gonna be happy with all that I stand for**
This second line is interesting. If he sees himself as flawed, it makes sense that he needs to make an effort to be happy with it, that he needs to plan for happiness, even if he doesn't feel it now. But why does he make the same effort for all that he stands for? Usually this is a point of pride for people, because they are a part of something larger than themselves, believing in a cause, concept, movement, etc. because it's something that they are, essentially, “happy with,” to use Jason's terms. I wonder why he needs to make a conscious effort, to plead with himself, to be happy with his values and everything he advocates.
**I'm gonna be happy now because the boy's going home.
The boy's gone home.**
I'm guessing that, as this song is so introspective and personal, the boy is Jason.
Just my thoughts!
Judging from different songs, and a general vibe I get, I'm working from the assumption that Jason grew up in a Christian home. This song, from that perspective, is Jason's thoughts and worries once he's walking away from religion.
From the phrasing, I gather he believes there's a god, that we answer for our “sins,” and that he considers himself flawed.
He walked away from Christianity/the idea of religion on the basis that you can't prove that a religion is right.
I think that a large part of him, at least at the time he was writing this, was second-guessing his second-guessing, apparently unhappy with the implications of this life without, essentially, hope. He's also curious (in an uncharacteristically pessimistic way) about the meaning of life and what happens when we die.
He also contemplates his morals, and seems rather unsure about what he believes in (in dealings that are unrelated to religion... Political stuff, how to live, etc.). He seems to have almost forced himself to move away from the idea of a worldview with all the answers, and is pretty much lost, aiming for nothing more than to be happy (a natural thing to struggle with in light of the belief that we don't know who decides our fate, how they operate, or what's expected of us...)
From here, I think Jason began his current spiritual journey through different religions and philosophies, not trying to find a complete truth so much as make sense of himself and what he sees and understands.
Peace! :-)
I'll reply to this with a detailed analysis of the song, to explain where I came up with everything in this message! :-p
about if you don't enjoy life to the fullest then life would eventually pass you by...
"Be so happy with the way you are
Be so happy that you made it this far"
Live life to the fullest...its simple
so it kinda doesnt have anything to do with Christ.
to HungryHipp:
your hardcore christian friend must be on something...
but it was the first song he played at on of his concerts
it kind of made me depressed to start the night off like that