The Fray – Unsaid

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  General Comment:I agree with most of the people who have said this song takes on a meaning of two people who have "unsaid" feelings for each other, but I also think there is a lot of significance in the line "We're both pretty sure neither one can tell," meaning they don't know that the feelings are mutual. Like they've been trying to pass off subtle signs of interest, but neither one is picking up on them. Then "We seem difficult what we got is hard as hell," displays how each person is confused about what the other thinks, viewing them as "difficult" to read and know how they feel.
  That is how I identify with this song.
  
  

  Flag peachykeen33on May 30, 2009   Link

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    i so relate to this song that same way too. like when you are into a guy, but you're too afraid for whatever reason to confess it to him, so instead you send these little signals and stuff and signs of sorts that your into him, and sometimes it seems like the guy does it too like he's interested, but neither you nor the guy say anything and you just keep playing this game of sorts. it becomes rather frustrating, and sadly, has beceome what is going on between me and someone right now. i just wish he'd say something, because we're both pretty sure but neither one can tell, just like the song.... story of my LIFE!
    
    *sigh*

    Flag kbunce87on August 25, 2009  
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  General Comment:lol i like how most people have to opposite interpretations: either it's two people who like each other but can't say the words, or it's a couple that isn't saying something that should be said...
  
  maybe it's just me but i see it as the latter. ive had this song for ages but havent listened to it in so long... i wish i had remembered it a while ago.
  
  "We're both pretty sure
  Neither one can tell
  We seem difficult
  What we got is hard as hell
  
  A hundred thousand words
  Could not quite explain
  So I walk you to your car
  And we can talk it out in the rain
  
  And we are leaving some things unsaid
  And we are breathing deeper instead
  And we are leaving some things unsaid
  
  I can sing myself to sleep
  No more
  
  Not that you're the one
  Not to say I'm right
  Not to say today
  And not to say a thing tonight"
  perfection <3

  Flag hplo2PWNZon January 31, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:It's about two people who like each other but for some odd reason they do not want to go the next step and just tell each other how they feel. Maybe it's because they are both scared that maybe they are just misinterpreting the other person's actions?
  
  I think at one point of our life, we have gone through a similar experience. I know I have...at least 3 times. *sigh*

  Flag siwolaeon January 11, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:"We're both pretty sure
  Neither one can tell.."
  
  it's like they give hints that they like each other and they understand the clues, only that i think these 2 people never really seem to find time to actually talk through it [probably they're not yet ready or they're scared of whatever might happen next]
  
  "... We seem difficult
  What we got is hard as hell"
  
  it seems that not being honest to each other is the safest thing to do, but at the same time they find it really hard and painful to wait for someone to speak up
  
  "Not that you're the one
  Not to say I'm right
  Not to say today
  And not to say a thing tonight"
  
  the "confrontation" gets shrugged off each time they meet or talk.. they always put it off until the next time they see each other [or at least that's how i see it]
  
  "And we are leaving some things unsaid
  And we are breathing deeper instead"
  
  these 2 keep giving off clues [probably more of the subliminal] that they like each other, but they never really confirm it as in "verbally" with the exact words
  
  "We sing ourselves to sleep
  Watching the day lie down instead"
  
  maybe "sing ourselves to sleep" means that when they're together, they try not to make the most out of the chance to finally confess, thinking that making a move would leave things in a rather [ugly] unexpected state.. so they end up feeling discontented after a day ends that they're around each other
  
  
  this song was done beautifully by the fray.. i think the mood set by this song magnifies its meaning of desperation for the truth and the unknown.. idk, i see it revolving more of around the "friends [or special friends] zone" hehe

  Flag kritikon January 10, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:love it!!!! It really sad, but good!!!!

  Flag 241laur9on January 07, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:I agree with shibby shoes. I think this song is about two people who really like each other, but they never say it to each other. They both know yet they leave it unsaid for whatever reason. So sad...I completely identify...

  Flag allie327on January 07, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:This song means so much to me.
  My boyfriend and I recently split up because my best friend told me he had cheated on me, though my boyfriend denies everything. It's difficult not knowing who to believe but I eventually chose my best friend.
  To me, this song describes leaving someone because you have to, and being alone will be so different and so difficult and your still unsure whether you have done or said the right things or have had the right things said to you.

  Flag starryskiesxon December 25, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:this couple has communication issues :-P

  Flag Elledarkoon December 06, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:I think that song is telling a story about a couple who were once happy, and now something is off in there relationship..it isn't a dramatic collapse or something fast pace but its a slow turn and both of them are complacent in it. In stead of getting into a fight and upsetting themselves in a break up, they're "breathing deeper instead" as in calmness. They both seem pretty sure of the other ones unhappiness but they both do nothing to end the relationship because they don't want to sing themselves to sleep anymore, they like the "we"...i think this is also a continuation of vienna...in fact i think its the song BEFORE vienna..before the open-ended break up "maybe in 5 or 10 your and mine can meet again..maybe then honest need not be feared as a friend..." .... :-)

  Flag Elledarkoon December 06, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:i think this song is about two people who were happy at one stage but now something has happened and they both need to talk about it but there scared of what the other will say "And we are leaving some things unsaid And we are breathing deeper instead"
  i think they were getting along just "We're leaving things unsaid We sing ourselves to sleep Watching the day lie down instead" but then they just cant da it anymore "I can sing myself to sleep
  No more" i think that vienna is closely related to this song. thats my opinion

  Flag frayroxon December 06, 2007   Link

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