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I want to make you happy
But I've fallen, I'm sorry
I thought my wings could hold me up
With angels not demons
You don't know how cool you are
To find the ways to love me without shame
I want my life to be red
With trees and like Autumn
I'd float away from evil and
Down towards the healing
So sad now we have become
The children trapped in the mazes
I'd give my soul to the one who has the courage
To find me and free me now
If I run I'll just become like all the faking lights
So let the thunders take me under
And break my legs tonight
But I've fallen, I'm sorry
I thought my wings could hold me up
With angels not demons
You don't know how cool you are
To find the ways to love me without shame
I want my life to be red
With trees and like Autumn
I'd float away from evil and
Down towards the healing
So sad now we have become
The children trapped in the mazes
I'd give my soul to the one who has the courage
To find me and free me now
If I run I'll just become like all the faking lights
So let the thunders take me under
And break my legs tonight
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Then there is the red that corresponds with autumn. Of course, trees in fall become orange and red. Red represents passion and bravery- autumn represents shedding yourself to prepare for a period of stillness (winter) followed by a rebirth (spring). "I want my life to be red, like autumn." The braveness of starting new, shedding off your past "leaves" so to speak.
This lyric my favorite line out of any of their songs. This band should be recognized for their poetic genius.
to me it makes me think about how we can realize we are nothing without God and we'll go on for a few days or weeks in the happiness that is reflected close to the end of song, but after a while we forget about God in a sense and then catch ourselves falling away from God again.. i don't know maybe?
One, Michael Shephard is a very poetic lyricist with a cinematic command of language. In achieving this, he uses many tools like metaphors and similes.
In the beginning of the second verse, he sings, "I want my life to be red with trees like autumn." He writes this in the accompanying lyrics book as well. However, I would argue he is consciously alluding to something greater.
In the recording, listen to the emphasis of the 'un' sound after he sings the word 'trees.' He could be saying 'and'. Or, consider the following:
"I want my life to be red with treason, like autumn."
Throughout literature and psychology, red is illustrious of negative emotions, such as death, betrayal, and tumult. As the song creates a sense of transcendence from a past life/life surrounding by wrong. Red represents the death of this life, and the welcoming of a new start. Similarly, autumn marks the same type of change. As the leaves begin to shed their color and skin, it marks the passage of new life.
A step further.
"I want my life to be read with treason, like autumn."
If another were to 'read' Shephard's life, he wants them to see his change. If a narrator is one way through a story, then goes through a rebirth and essentially starts over, it is treason to the previous idea of the self.
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Keep in mind this is just a though. Something to consider.
that said, i dont see how this song can be interpreted any other way.
i was raised in a religious home and at 18, i abandoned all faith for my own journey of spiritual faith.
this song is the epitome of what i felt when i finally decided to believe in god again
i thought i could stray from him and do good, but all sorts of evils filled my life.
this song is definitely about surrender.
it's so bold and honest. and haunting, like lovedrug loves.
i was so broken inside for 2 years after i left all my faith, i find it enormously uplifting:
i float away from evil and down towards the healing.
It's so simple...and I think there are many ways to interperet the lyrics.
That's what's so great about it.
This song reminds me of my ex boyfriend, and the wonderful times that we spent together.
I remember we would listen to this song all night and just talk.
This was my favorite song for a while, so he would always write me little messages that ended with "you don't know how cool you are, to find the ways to love me without shame."
Even now, it still makes me smile.