Some nights I thirst for real blood
For real knives
For real cries
And then the flash of steel from real guns
In real life
Really fills my mind

And I really miss what really did exist
When I held your throat so tight
And I miss the bus as it swerved from us
Almost came crashing to its side

Sometimes the blood from real cuts
Feels real nice
When it's really mine
And if you want it to be real
Come over for one night
And we can really, really climb

And those blue bridge lights might really burn most bright
As we watch that dark lake rise
And if you really want to see what really matters most to me
Just take a real short drive

It's just a drive into the dark stretch
Long stretch of night
Will really stretch this shaking mind
And this room, unlit, unheated
And the ceiling striped
And the dark black blinds

I want to know this time if you're really finally mine
I need to know that you're not lying so I want to see you tried
And I don't want to hear you say it shouldn't really be this way
Cause I like this way just fine

Cause there's nothing quite like the blinding light
That curtains cast aside
And no attempt is made to explain away
The things that really, really, really, really, really are behind

You can't hide
You can't hide
You can't hide

You can't hide
You can't hide
You can't hide



Lyrics submitted by phaty4

Track duration: 04:43

"For Real" as written by Hawes-land

Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC GROUP, INC

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    General Comment:so i interpret this song this way. real quick here's why i interpret this way. i'm a choreographer and i only choreograph to songs that i feel will make a good story and when i listen to this song i get this story and its how i interpret the song. so.

    i see it as a relationship and the guy is so in love with the girl but she's kind of unfaithful and she's just always messing with his head but she's still in love with him. and she comes to realize that she needs him but then just gets caught up with emotion and can't handle it and she runs and he is desperate for her.

    disagree if you will. actually please.
    Flag noreton July 11, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I think this is some excellent metaphor probably mixed with a little reality. Control. Shame. Injury. Anger. I've seriously listened to this over a hundred times this week. The live YouTube is astounding.
    Flag Limowreckon March 30, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I think this song is trying to show how in a relationship, you don't know if you can really trust someone, and sometimes it feels like you need to test the ties between you and the other person. I also think that maybe it's about a person who has gone through something really hard and isn't all that trusting and turns the testing of others into something twisted........ of course I'm probably wrong, but that's just my two cents.
    Flag dulcimercheyon January 27, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Honestly, taking this song literally makes you an idiot. It's about the purity of pain, specifically through love. Sunshinetumour's post/s said it all.
    Flag SkeletonCollectiveon July 20, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:definitely S&M, guys.
    Flag xlimetreeon July 10, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:this song is realy great its addressed to the moral A is A such as atlas shrugged wich you will notice in a number of okkervil river songs which i appreciate very much as an objectivist
    basicly it relates to the relationship between Dagny Taggart and John Galt saying that they are the people who truely belong on earth that now is run by the very people that exploit the very thing they live on
    wich in reality suggest that their whole purpose is to destroy the earth because they are those who are not willing to think
    and he is saying to her that the cuts feel real nice because it is his way of saying he has to cut his arm open in order to let the poison drip out and before things can be right and life can be lived as it should she has to accept the fact that the people who must die MUST die that she may know it but now she has to actually try and have no pitty on the men who asked for death instead of life.
    Flag johngoldon June 13, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:The line " some nights the blood from real cuts feels real nice when it's really mines" is the sings best line. I got shivers when I first heard that part. Still do sometimes!
    Flag sibowittzon May 24, 2009   Link
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    My Interpretation:It's about a depressed guy who has no idea about who he is or where he's going in life. He wants to experience awkward haunting experiences like murder and torturing of others, however in the end those are all feelings that he wants to experience but can never fulfill because he's not really a bad person, morelike a normal person who's afraid of the laws, but he's emo and has an unstable personality; hence the repetitive use of the word about wanting all this (lyrics) to be "real." In the end he's lost his sense of direction in life, becoming mentally unstable, and ultimately turns his back to the world. He thinks it's ok to live on like his current state, and when finally in a relationship again, the guy imposes himself and his unstable mental state upon his girlfriend. She's afraid of him, but likes him at the same time, however she can't commit to such an unstable personality. The words "you can't hide" in the end forshadows the coming death of the girl whom he will probably murder, as in you can't hide from me because i'm coming to get you.
    Flag TheRavenon May 02, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:When he wrote the song he was just trying to see how many times he could say "real" and get away with it... and it looks like Mr. Sheff did a good job with that! I love the lyrics and I think they do have another meaning then just saying "real" multiple times but I'm not sure. The music video, to me, suggests some kind of father figure turning his son into a monster. But I really have no idea.
    Flag laurenaginnon April 10, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:personally i LOVE the guitar riffs, its scary in a good way seriously love it... and i think the song is about the lead singer's relationship with a girl and hes talking to her and telling her that he wants her to be 'real' with him and tell him the truth no matter what circumstance because he balieves you cant hide form the truth and his what seems like somewhat suicidal attempts he nneds to know that shes telling the truth to save him from his pain. =] xThe Thirst of Peacex =]
    Flag xTheThirstOfPeacexon January 06, 2009   Link

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