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You make your way but don't belong.
I swear you’re not the only one.
Is that what you've been dreaming?
There are other ways of staying strong, than keeping out the other ones.
I feel the light years between what you say and what you mean.
You wont get through with that phony confidence.
I hear you speak, but nothing is said.
You'll be stranded on the other side, endless nights upon endless nights.
Endless nights upon endless nights, you'll be alone, alone to the grave.
There's a place in all of us, the same in everyone, making right the balances in all of us.
Aching and burning and growing and learning, and building the world around us.
Until our lives are done, we'll share the same emotions, shed tears of eulogy, then turn to plant our seeds.
Still you can’t hear me call out your name and try to get through.
I never hear back.
My words became a thousand arrows, slicing though the endless barricades, so that everyone on earth could hear my call, and I watched for you.
Now I know you’re putting me on.
You've chosen to swear off the general population.
All those around you draw to a quiet.
Your eyes dart across the room, but it’s just an illusion.
The room doesn’t exist, there's only you and I, and its almost like we cant fail at all, or maybe we've failed already.
What you choose to see is real: A cold dark world of enemies,
obstacles you could never overcome, or a bright future ahead.
So tell the whole world and we'll start brand new.
Strip the shackles off, let me look at you.
If you can't reach out like you’ve been longing to, I’ll have to rethink all that I thought I knew.
I swear you’re not the only one.
Is that what you've been dreaming?
There are other ways of staying strong, than keeping out the other ones.
I feel the light years between what you say and what you mean.
You wont get through with that phony confidence.
I hear you speak, but nothing is said.
You'll be stranded on the other side, endless nights upon endless nights.
Endless nights upon endless nights, you'll be alone, alone to the grave.
There's a place in all of us, the same in everyone, making right the balances in all of us.
Aching and burning and growing and learning, and building the world around us.
Until our lives are done, we'll share the same emotions, shed tears of eulogy, then turn to plant our seeds.
Still you can’t hear me call out your name and try to get through.
I never hear back.
My words became a thousand arrows, slicing though the endless barricades, so that everyone on earth could hear my call, and I watched for you.
Now I know you’re putting me on.
You've chosen to swear off the general population.
All those around you draw to a quiet.
Your eyes dart across the room, but it’s just an illusion.
The room doesn’t exist, there's only you and I, and its almost like we cant fail at all, or maybe we've failed already.
What you choose to see is real: A cold dark world of enemies,
obstacles you could never overcome, or a bright future ahead.
So tell the whole world and we'll start brand new.
Strip the shackles off, let me look at you.
If you can't reach out like you’ve been longing to, I’ll have to rethink all that I thought I knew.
Lyrics submitted by TheDevilWearsPrada
Track duration: 04:13
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Nathan Ells (vocalist) is trying to get this person to open up to him. He's calling out so loudly for some real emotion that the whole world can hear him. But this character has entirely isolated him/herself from Nathan and the general population. They've darkened their thoughts, becoming pessimistic and cold.
At the end, Nathan asks the person to tear down the wall they've put between their true self and the rest of the world, and let him see him/her for who they really are... and if not, he'll have been proven wrong, that not everyone is capable of opening up.
Also I think there's a very important message in the lines towards the end where Ells says "What you choose to see is real: A cold dark world of enemies, obstacles you could never overcome, or a bright future ahead." Perspective is reality, and so the person's choice to see himself as an outcast and to dream that he's the only one who is so different is what perpetuates his illusion that all of these things are true despite the common human traits he has with the rest of his species.