Lyrics for Boston as interpreted by helenrips

Boston Lyrics
In the light of the sun
Is there anyone?
Oh it has begun
Oh dear, you look so lost
Eyes are red and tears are shed
Some world you must have crossed

You said, You don’t know me
You don’t even care
Oh yeah
She said, you don’t know me
You don’t wear my chains
Oh yeah - yeah

The essential yet appealed
Carry all your thoughts cross an open field
When flowers gaze at you
They’re not the only ones
Who cry when they see you

You said, You don’t know me
You don’t even care
Oh yeah
She said, you don’t know me
You don’t wear my chains
Oh yeah

She said, I think I’m going to Boston
I think I’ll start a new life
I think I’ll start it over
No one knows my name
I’ll get out of California
I’m tired of the weather
I think I’ll get a lover
I’ll fly ‘em out to Spain

I think I’m going to Boston
I think that I’m just tired
I think I need a new town
To leave this all behind
I think I need a sunrise
I’m tired of the sunset
Here it’s nice in the summer
Some snow would be nice
Oh yeah

Boston
No one knows my name
Yeah
No one knows my name
No one knows my name…

Boston
No one knows my name

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mary_is_cherry44
01-03-2008

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Everyone wants to find their own personal Boston... I think it means that he just told this girl how he feels about her and she for some reason refused him and told him no, that she doesn't care, so he just wanted to retreat to a place where no one knows him, his own personal Boston.

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thespecialone
01-13-2008

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this is the kinda mood i'm in right now.
this song explains it all.
liZZ =)♥

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ins_bins
02-07-2008

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great song..i luv the piano playing its so beautiful :) i first heard it on the ultimate OC fan video its great ;)

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omgitshim
03-21-2008

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i belevie this song is about someone who needs to start anew in another place because hes tired of people who just dont understand him and what he goes thru
"you don’t know me
You don’t wear my chains"

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omgitshim
03-21-2008

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but from some1 elses perspective ( sum1 who truly knows this person and they dont know it) SAD

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BellaVidaMia
04-20-2008

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My god am I feeling this song.

It's so beautiful...

And i'll be the first in line to admitt that i've wanted to go to "boston".

I think I’ll start a new life
I think I’ll start it over
No one knows my name
I’ll get out of California
I’m tired of the weather
I think I’ll get a lover

It just sounds like a dream.

***

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madael
04-21-2008

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to me, the:
You said, You don’t know me
You don’t even care
Oh yeah
She said, you don’t know me
You don’t wear my chains
Oh yeah - yeah"
Hits me pretty hard, its like, knowing someone for a long time, and then suddenly you realizad that person really never cared for you, and then you wanna go to "boston" to leave all behind, to forget everything...

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dave4red
04-27-2008

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THIS SONG IS PROBABLY 1 OF THE VERY BEST SONG I HAVE LISTENED IN MY LIFE. IT HAS GOT SUCH A MELODIOUS TUNE + ITS LYRICS IS AMAZING.
I don't have any girlfriend yet, but this song kept me dreaming :P

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cruisecontrol
05-31-2008

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i fell in love with this song a good two years before it was re-released and everybody fell in love with. now i can't listen to it for a while because apparently, it's well overplayed. good for augustana though!

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rueful_kitten
06-12-2008

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This song to me is about someone running away from their problems, pressumably a female. This guy is tryna figure out why she is being so strange and she's all, "Get outta here! You don't know me and you don't even care!" Deep, makes me wanna run away sometimes...

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ktd2010
07-03-2008

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I agree with the other people who said it's about a new start, or trying to get away from a certain life. It's definitely got some symbolism in it like
"I think I need a sunrise
I’m tired of the sunset"
Which to me, basically just means she needs a beginning, because she's tired of the endings.

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_bananapancakes
08-23-2008

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this song is pretty much about leaving everything and everyone you know behind because sometimes people have to do that. sometimes people have to get away from everything somedays. you need time to yourself, and we all need that.
i love this song so much. ever since i heard it like 2 years ago, i loved it.

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dpalm
09-16-2008

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What do they mean by "essential yet appealed"?

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Naerien
09-22-2008

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I first heard this song when I'd gone over to my friends. At the time she had a massive argument with her boyfriend and she was in one of her depressed moods. Naturally that meant for her to download miserable songs that suited her situation, so I decided to look through her music playlist and tease her about any songs that were cheesy. After going through a few I came across this one. To be honest when I read the title, I instantly assumed the song had to be some sort of a joke.

By the time she came back home she saw in me in tears just listening to song. I was blown away when I heard this. I still cry whenever I listen to these lyrics. The song is melancholically beautiful, I can easily recognize it when I just hear the beginning keys of the piano at the start.

What I love about this song is that can be applied for any situation; whether a falling out in a relationship, an arugment with a loved one [family or friends], or just life in general [like it is with me]. You see I suffer from Clinical Depression and when I heard these lyrics I was taken in by its deep meaning.

When I listen to this song I always picture myself as the girl, singing this song to the world in general; to the people I knew in my life, and I feel like this is a message to God who I feel frankly doesn't give two shits about my shitass life: "you don't know me, you don't even care - you don't know me, you don't wear my chains"

About her going to Boston and leaving California is exactly my life. Things are so horrible here, I just want to leave the place I'm in, and just run away to Spain and live there forever; exactly described in the last three verses where no one knows my name, I think I'll start a new life, I think I'm just tired, I think I'll start it over, and the rest of the lines that follow

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Naerien
09-22-2008

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We've all been through this stage where we just badly want to leave our current situations, and start a new life where we have no worries, and no weight of the world on our shoulders.

Also the beginning verse describes my life everyday; red eyed and in tears, I feel like I'm living in another world since all around everyone seems so carefree and I'm the only with a fake smile on my face. The worst thing is that everyone looks at me and assumes I'm such a happy person. Well guess what? I'm not, and I hate that nobody could accept the real miserable me because misery does not attract company, no matter what the old saying may say.

The line that gets me the most has to be this:
"When flowers gaze at you
They’re not the only ones
Who cry when they see you"

Even when I just simply read it or sing it softly to myself I have to burst into tears. There's something about this line that just gets to me. Maybe its give you hope that there's somebody who does love you out there that does see your pain? Or maybe it's false hope; you wish there was somebody there who could see your pain, or it could suggest someone untouchable and unreachable like an angel or a deceased loved one watching over you, and they feel real helpless because they can't help you out no matter how much they'd like to?

I live in such a small town, everyone knows my name, it's horrible. We all know one another here, it sucks. And people gossip like wildfire here, it just makes me hate living life because of frumps like the rest of them. That's why I'd give just about anything to run away to somewhere, some place, where no one knows my name; with friends like these who needs enemies.

It's like someone said; you think you've known someone your whole life, and it turns out you haven't. They don't know a thing or two about your own life, and it's a crap feeling to endure.

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Kale Casablancas
09-26-2008

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I think meaning is obvious so no need to touch on that, but the line "I think that I'm just tired" breaks my heart everytime. Anyone who has ever felt like their heart was about to explode out of their chest because of problems knows what I mean.

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brittyblindside
10-30-2008

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i agree that everyone has their own boston.
mine's 1,300 miles away. in four years, i'm going to go there.
hopefully these years are going to be dark and vague.

i love this song, i could never get sick of it.
the piano is great too.

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rockonufa02
12-05-2008

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in a sense, it doesnt have to be boston...we just wanna get away, to a place, whatever the place maybe...our comfortable place that we can just relax and be happy...let's all go and find our "boston"

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tiamia
12-11-2008

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i think what hes trying to say here is you really cant know what somones going through because everyone thinks differently and you cant understand until you walk a mile in their shoes, or wear their chains, i think that everyone wants to go to theyre own boston and to start over

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pixiez2me
01-02-2009

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this song is cool. it makes me feel sad


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sheiswalkinontheclouds
02-01-2009

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It's about one of the lead singer's friends who wanted to get out of California...literally...not every song is metaphorical.

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Choeying
02-18-2009

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I just love this song. I heard the tune before and I could remember that I used to hum it...the chorus part...kept lingering in my thoughts. And then , a friend of mine gives it to me a few days back and now...I am listening to it again and again.
From a musical point of view, it is amazing. And from a poetic view, it's even better. I could feel his love and pain.
I couldn't keep myself from writing a comment. I created this account just to comment on this song.
Simply great.

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awkwardmouse
04-20-2009

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I love this song. Also it's funny if you imagine he's singing to his cat :D

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shescreamsformore
05-02-2009

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Kinda one of those days where they feel like no one understands and they just wanna leave everything (in this case, go to Boston). You don't wear my chains - you don't know what I've been through, personally. Amazing lyrics.

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SchokiiHasii
06-02-2009

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god i love this song
excactly how i feel right now

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