Story of the Year – Take Me Back

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  General Comment:To me this song is about what's happening in the world now. 'Do you still remember back when days....' -
  Do you still remeber when you were back at school? Your world was sheltered, you had nothing to worry about because the next day you would do the same as the last. 'There was the day when this world went to war and...' The world has waded unthinkingly into war, for example the 'War on Terror' and the fellow singing the song has gone along. What's the diference betwee wasting Nazis in 'Saving Private Ryan' and fighting insurgents in Afghanistan, no real difference between real life and the movies. Now after having experienced it the protagonist reaises the difference between fact and fiction, he is over it and has had a gut-full, and whished to be taken back to when he was not afraid, safe in his sheltered world. 'Running blind into the light...' Running blindly into the light of a better world through the war mentioned earlier, maybe we should have thought about it, but too late, he's fighting and it's wasting him away.

  Flag clarkey89on March 27, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:I think this is about not a relationship though by reading the title most people would say it was.

  Flag Matthew15on December 29, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:I think these guys have created a new kind of punk metal genre cause I haven't heard their kind of combinations of punk and metal so good. Btw, I love the delay effect on the guitar

  Flag David34343on August 06, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:='[ dammmn memories

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  General Comment:pretty sure these are right
  plus, an amazing song
  
  Do you still remember back when days were longer
  Dreams were bigger than the weight of the world
  did not get planted on the shoulders of one man
  (I thought) I thought the time stood still
  Sheltered, protected
  They never told me this would end, that the leaves would fall again
  
  So take me back, back to better days
  Cuz this time between is wasting me away
  Take me back to when we were not afraid
  Cuz this time between is wasting me away
  
  There was a day when this world went to war
  And didn't bat an eye
  Real life and the movies felt the same to me
  And i never questioned why
  (I know) I know the difference now between fact and fiction
  I've come to find that I've grown bitter in just 24 short years
  
  So take me back, back to better days
  Cuz this time between is wasting me away
  Take me back to when we were not afraid
  Cuz this time between is wasting me away
  Wasting me away...
  Waste away!
  
  So now we're running
  We're running blind into the light
  We fall behind
  We're running and wasting away the time
  
  Take me back, back to better days
  Cuz this time between is wasting me away
  Take me back to when we were not afraid
  Cuz this time between is wasting me away (x2)
  
  Yah take me back, just take me back
  Yah take me back, just take me back
  Yah take me back to when we were not afraid

  Flag BlackHawk007on March 19, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:this song is fricken amazing. i think its about them being kids and its there last summer being able to have fun like a kid. then when the seasons change there being expected of way more then when they were kids and they wish they can go back but now they cant. basically wut im saying is i think its about growing up.
  
  SOTY IS AMAZING

  Flag the bloucheron March 12, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:this song is fricken amazing. i think its about them being kids and its there last summer being able to have fun like a kid. then when the seasons change there being expected of way more then when they were kids and they wish they can go back but now they cant. basically wut im saying is i think its about growing up.
  
  SOTY IS AMAZING

  Flag the bloucheron March 12, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:Its not about the war in Iraq. Its about childhood and the good times before all the responsibilities of growing up come and fall on you.

  Flag fwsmon March 07, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:It's about the war in Iraq.

  Flag ascribe2thelordon December 02, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:excelent sng. I think the best song from story of the yaer up to now.

  Flag toto_245on June 24, 2006   Link

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