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Doesn't come down when she calls
"It's time for breakfast."
Mama can't get down those halls
Fast enough to see
Glass is sprayed across the floor
From the broken window
She can't breathe anymore
Can't deny what we know
They're gonna find you, just believe
You're not a person; you're a disease
[Chorus]
All these lives that you've been taking
Deep inside, my heart is breaking
Broken homes from separation
Don't you know it's violation?
It's so wrong, but you'll see
Never gonna let you take my world from me
The world outside these walls may know you're breathing
But you ain't comin' in
(But you ain't comin' in)
Posters hung on building walls
Of missing faces
Months go by without the calls
The clues, or traces
They're gonna find you, just believe
You're not a person; you're a disease
[Chorus]
Shed the light on all the ones who never thought they would become
A father, mother, asking why this world can be so cold
Doesn't come down when she calls
"It's time for breakfast."
The memories begin to fall
She asks, "When will I be free?"
[Chorus]
All these lives that you've been taking
Deep inside, my heart is breaking
All these lives that you've been taking
Deep inside, my heart is breaking
All these lives that you've been taking
Deep inside, my heart is breaking
The world outside these walls may know you're breathing
The world outside these walls may know you're breathing
But you ain't comin' in
"It's time for breakfast."
Mama can't get down those halls
Fast enough to see
Glass is sprayed across the floor
From the broken window
She can't breathe anymore
Can't deny what we know
They're gonna find you, just believe
You're not a person; you're a disease
[Chorus]
All these lives that you've been taking
Deep inside, my heart is breaking
Broken homes from separation
Don't you know it's violation?
It's so wrong, but you'll see
Never gonna let you take my world from me
The world outside these walls may know you're breathing
But you ain't comin' in
(But you ain't comin' in)
Posters hung on building walls
Of missing faces
Months go by without the calls
The clues, or traces
They're gonna find you, just believe
You're not a person; you're a disease
[Chorus]
Shed the light on all the ones who never thought they would become
A father, mother, asking why this world can be so cold
Doesn't come down when she calls
"It's time for breakfast."
The memories begin to fall
She asks, "When will I be free?"
[Chorus]
All these lives that you've been taking
Deep inside, my heart is breaking
All these lives that you've been taking
Deep inside, my heart is breaking
All these lives that you've been taking
Deep inside, my heart is breaking
The world outside these walls may know you're breathing
The world outside these walls may know you're breathing
But you ain't comin' in
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Track duration: 03:23
"All These Lives" as written by Mitch Allan, Chris Daughtry
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Throughout the whole song then interpretation can be farfetched, but the stanza regarding the missing faces narrows the topic (Posters hung on building walls/ Of missing faces/Months go by without the calls/ The clues, or traces). Starting from that line if we interpret it as photos of missing children, then the whole song can be interpreted fully. First stanza relays an imagery of a terrorized mother finding her child gone, left with only empty room with shattered glass from the window from which the abductor enters and escapes. The imagery here not only acts as the beginning of the narrative of a family suffering the pain of child abduction, but also serves as an immediate strong emotional impact. The next stanza which repeats through the song serves as warning to the abductors that one day they will be found and also a sign of disgust that the abductor as a kind of disease. It is an interesting choice of word- “disease”- because the word conveys both the negative notions and the fact that diseases, though sometimes may seem incurable, almost always become curable, foreshadowing the capturing of the abductor. The third stanza contains multiple elements including condemnation from the first five lines. Then, it introduces the mentality that abductor will not enter the life of singer in the next four lines.
The forth stanza, the center of the song within this interpretation, clarify the topic for the listener. The posters on the wall pulls out the memory that almost everyone experiences: seeing picture taped to the wall of missing people. Then the song repeats until stanza seven and eight. In stanza seven, the question of the cold world is posted to the listen to promote the sympathy which is further developed with another question in stanza eight- “When will I be free [from memories]?” The song ends with a final stroke with the repeats of the line “heart is breaking.”
The interpretation of this song varies from each listener. As long as the song connects with you in specific ways, then that’s your interpretation of the song.
Doesn't come down when she calls,
"It's time for breakfast."
ok so here the kid could be doing drugs.
Momma can't get down those halls
Fast enough to see
Glass is sprayed across the floor
From the broken window.
so the drug pusher they owed broke in. or their pimp or whatever and either beat the hell out of them or took them as callateral. or possibly killed them. i personally think one of the first two.
She can't breathe anymore.
Can't deny what we know.
now this is what could either mean the mother cant breathe or the child. i personally think its the mother who cant breathe.
they're gonna find you just believe;
you're not a person you're a disease...
alright well here i think it means the person who did this to the parents kid is gonna pay. whether the parents find them and hunt them down or the police.
All these lives that you've been taking,
Deep inside, my heart is breaking.
Broken homes from separation.
Don't you know it's violation?
most people who do drugs at a young age is because they had a bad childhood. whether their parents seperated, their parents abused drugs, got raped, whatever. there are many reasons for why people turn to drugs. all the lives that DRUGS and ADDICTION have been taking. Or ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. DEPRESSION. many many reasons.
It's so wrong, but you'll see.
Never gonna let you take my world from me.
The world outside these walls may know you're breathing,
But you ain't comin' in.
You ain't comin' in.
again i think its drugs or some sort of addiction to something. people dont want to let it in. for all the christians out there, its of the devil and to let the addiction in is to let satan in. so you refuse it all. it aint comin in.
Posters hung on building walls
Of missing faces.
Months go by without the calls
The clues, or traces.
again, people go missing more often from drug pushers and pimps than almost anything else. their posters are hung on walls just as much as kids gone missing. i still personally believe its people addicted to stuff that have gone missing because they have let it run their lives.
Shed the light on all the ones who never thought they would become
A father, mother asking why this world can be so cold.
this is why i think its addiction. i cant define this feeling ive never felt it and maybe CHris has.
Doesn't come down when she calls,
"It's time for breakfast."
The memories begin to fall.
She asks, "When will I be free?"
again, someone addicted to ANYTHING never really feels free until they are completely away from it for so long, and even then there is a chance they could fall right back into it. so technically youre never really free from it. i used to be a tad on the suicidal part and sometimes those memories begin to fall back on me too, and sometimes i wonder why im still alove. but i am. and i deal with life just like eveyrone else and im past it now.
anyway this is my two cents. :P] hope this helps~!
it can also be about child abduction in general, but the divorce card speaks more to me. then again, my parents are divorced. my father never tired to kidnap us, but i think thats probably why i'm leaning more to the divorced theory.