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You Found Me Lyrics
I found God on the corner of 1st and Amistad
Where the West was all but won All alone, smoking his last cigarette I said, "Where you been?" He said, "Ask anything." Where were you, when everything was falling apart? All my days were spent by the telephone that never rang And all I needed was a call that never came To the corner of 1st and Amistad Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you? Just a little late, you found me, you found me. But in the end everyone ends up alone Losing her, the only one who's ever known Who I am, who I'm not and who I wanna to be No way to know how long she will be next to me Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you? Just a little late, you found me, you found me. The early morning, the city breaks And I've been calling for years and years and years and years And you never left me no messages You never sent me no letters You got some kind of nerve taking all I'm worth Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me Lying on the floor Where were you? Where were you? Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you? Just a little late, you found me, you found me. Why'd you have to wait, to find me, to find me? |
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11-23-2008
To me the overall song is about that anger and envy feelings you get when God finally comes to help, but you wonder why it too so many years. Never realing the struggles you go through end up making your faith get stronger. Just like what Jesus did and took all the sins for us on the cross. Like the line "Where the West was all but won." When Jesus died, his hands on the cross represent his saving us and how far the East is from the West, his scarred hands.
The girl in the 2nd verse represents the loved ones lost or gone from your life during this time. The ones who got you and could have helped you through this.
It's actually a hope filled song, wrapped up in the feelings of anger at wanting God's grace and mercy sooner. Because the sinner was FOUND. He's just human and wanted it sooner. ;)
11-27-2008
i'm really happy for you.
i totally agree with, "Never realing the struggles you go through end up making your faith get stronger."
It all makes sense now.
01-27-2009
In my own opinion, my friends who say, "well... I believe in science." haven't been through tough enough times to realize His grace and mercy.
And for those of you who have turned away from God in the tough times, I'm sorry.
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11-24-2008
"You Found Me is a tough song for me. Its about the disappointment, the heart ache, the let down that comes with life. Sometimes you're let down, sometimes you're the one who lets someone else down. It gets hard to know who you can trust, who you can count on. This song came out of a tough time, and I'm still right in the thick of it. There's some difficult circumstances my family and friends have been going through over the past year or so and can be overwhelming. It wears on me. It demands so much of my faith to keep believing, keep hoping in the unseen. Sometimes the tunnel has a light at the end, but usually they just look black as night. This song is about that feeling, and the hope that I still have, buried deep in my chest."
The song is truly amazing. I myself have been battling my own problems small and large among family, friends, school, work, personal, everything. Caring about everyone around me and trying to put smiles on faces and make people happy during the hardest of times. But when you can't do it, it begins to eat at you, and others problems become your own demons. Eventually hitting rock bottom. And even today I struggle with my demons every other day. And while I am not religious, nor do I believe in God, I continue to believe there might be a higher power that will help those I love with their problems.
I think this song takes everything about life into account while placing God into it as well. But the song does something rarely what other musicians attempt to do, it shows the emotional range and true insecurities which we all have but rarely reveal.
Can't wait to see them live, definitely some of the greatest musicians, and certainly great people among a world so messed up as ours.
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11-25-2008
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11-27-2008
And I think it is extremely appropriate how Isaac portrays God as a human on earth "who sends him no letters" or doesn't call when being waited for. A watched pot never boils, and we miss the other things going on in our lives. We miss the small miracles that keep us going when we hope for something more.
I personally believe in a balance, so if we don't at times lose God, how can we find him? Sometimes you have to go there to come back. It's the hard times in our lives that we really get the opportunity to see God and his work in this world. The work of our loved ones. Things get hard in life, yet we are still hear today. We are living and breathing and that is all that matters. People say that God has abandoned us, but Isaac eventually found him while on his search in the song. There is still hope buried inside hurt of his heart, and that small ounce of faith is all that is enough. God will do the rest.
11-28-2008
I would agree with you poolshark9 that God can be defined in many ways by many different people. Which the Fray does exceptionally well in this song, to each his own in how they interpret the song.
11-28-2008
12-30-2008
You have given me hope. :)
01-07-2009
Also give props to the both of you for not getting into an argument or heated debate.
01-09-2009
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07-23-2009
I'm a devote Roman Catholic, so I might be a little bias. but thats what I think.
08-15-2009
09-29-2009
I, too, almost started crying reading your posts. I have a friend who is quite antagonistic, while I am a firm believer in God. Your conversation, even though you two have never met (I think) was much more meaningful then any conversation I've had with my friend.
Anyone ever read Angels and Demons? I personally have never seen the movie, but the book spiritually tells about a conversation a guard had with a priest how God can be omnipotent and benevolent: (posted from wikiquotes)(warning, this may be a spoiler for those of you reading the book!)
Lieutenant Chatrand: I don’t understand this omnipotent-benevolent thing.
Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: You are confused because the Bible describes God as an omnipotent and benevolent deity.
Lieutenant Chatrand: Exactly.
Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.
Lieutenant Chatrand: I understand the concept. It’s just… there seems to be a contradiction.
Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Yes. The contradiction is pain. Man’s starvation, war, sickness…
Lieutenant Chatrand: Exactly! Terrible things happen in this world. Human tragedy seems like proof that God could not possibly be both all-powerful and well-meaning. If He loves us and has the power to change our situation, He would prevent our pain, wouldn’t he?
Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Would He?
Lieutenant Chatrand: Well… if God Loves us, and He can protect us, He would have to. It seems He is either omnipotent and uncaring, or benevolent and powerless to help.
Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Do you have children?
Lieutenant Chatrand: No, signore.
Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Imagine you had an eight-year-old son… would you love him?
Lieutenant Chatrand: Of course.
Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Would you let him skateboard?
Lieutenant Chatrand: Yeah, I guess. Sure I’d let him skateboard, but I’d tell him to be careful.
Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: So as this child’s father, you would give him some basic, good advice and then let him go off and make his own mistakes?
Lieutenant Chatrand: I wouldn’t run behind him and mollycoddle him if that’s what you mean.
Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: But what if he fell and skinned his knee?
Lieutenant Chatrand: He would learn to be more careful.
Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: So although you have the power to interfere and prevent
your child’s pain, you would choose to show you love by letting him learn his own lessons?
Lieutenant Chatrand: Of course. Pain is part of growing up. It’s how we learn.
Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: Exactly.
One of my fav parts in that book...
Anyway...This song speaks to me of a man who never found meaning in his life, until the proclained day in the song. I think he's happy that God has helped him, but still really frustrated that God took so long to do it.
10-03-2009
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11-27-2008
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11-30-2008
and i don't quite understand what their trying to say to me
can anyone help?
i understood the lyrics
but what does the whole picture mean..?
12-02-2008
But whoever dedicated the song to you seems like they love you very much, enough to believe that a song with words, "lost and insecure", the mention of God, and my favorite, "
Losing her
The only one whose ever known
Who I am, who I'm not, who I wanna be".
Whoever that person is, they love you very much. Consider yourself very lucky.
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12-02-2008
I get fed up with every time someone says 'God' in a song and automatically thinks thats what the song is about, and that they are singing to the world about how great God is.
12-05-2008
I think the song's about God. But he's not singing about "how great God is", I think he's singing about his faith and how hard it is to hold on to.
I think 3x3 has the right idea - Slade's talking to God as if He was human. The song's really emotional in a way that only the Fray brings along with their music. Along with that tone of insecurity they've always brought.
12-05-2008
I meant to say "I think poolshark has the right idea".
12-30-2008
A song that has many different interpretations makes for a fantastic song.
02-12-2009
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06-14-2009
but i also agree with kdawg, about how many meanings makes for a great song. hmmm.
point is, i dont think the whole song IS about god. maybe he might have kept the whole god idea in mind while lyric-writing, and made sure all of the meanings were left open and indistinct enough to still aply to the god idea, i also think that he had in mind a HUMAN relationship when he was writing the song, which was what was at the forefront of his mind.
he's lost someone, he has done something very stupid, either slitting his wrists or overdosing, ["surrounded surrounded" either by his blood or pills] and now the other person has finally realised and come to find him, except it's too late, and now there is all of this regret, which all falls into place in the song so well.
i think if the song was about god it wouldnt have so much regret in it, and the idea of it being too late ["just a little late"] because when god finds people it's always in time. altho you could argue with that, if you're looking from a religious point of view god DOES always find people in time, because even if its when they die, there's still the afterlife of heaven or whatever and shiz.
point is i think it is not about god, because if it was there wouldnt be so much pain, regret and bitterness in the song, because god 'finding' someone would never be too late.
love this song, love this site :)
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12-08-2008
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12-10-2008
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12-15-2008
Well by the lyrics it is telling me that God was never there and never really was there. "Just a little late" says that God didn't come when he needed it. I think it's saying God is the one Smoking his last cigarette.
"And you never left me no messages
You never send me no letters
You've got some kind of nerve
Taking all I'm worth"
which shows he wasn't even there.
Well this song remains me mostly of what my mom went through because she had a harsh childhood and after that also. She prayed everyday and went to church and God never helped her. Her dad died later from a heart attack then her mother had a stroke and which left her mother praylzed on her right side. She lost her faith somewhere around there I think. She prayed everday and no one helped her. Her brother left her to take care of her mother and she was all by herself until she met my father but that's a whole different story.
Well I think it's telling you there is no God.
But this is from a atheist's point of view so you can say whatever you want.
01-18-2009
01-18-2009
Anyway, my religion has given me two firm beliefs, stronger than all the rest. They are these:
God is constantly working through humans, showing His love and grace to both those who don't normally see it and those who see it all the time.
The second is that, as hard as we try, we can't understand the Lord. He has his own way, and he knows what right. We can't understand why he would come "Just a little late," but there is a reason for it.
God isn't here to make our lives perfect. If there were no problems in the world, why would he be here at all? Everybody has tough times in their life, but they make it. I'm assuming that your mother made it, if you are here and well today. We'll all make it, eventually.
Anyway, I'll leave you to your beliefs. Please know that I'm not saying that you are wrong, just sharing my view.
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12-15-2008
I think the song is about being impatient with God's timing.
"It demands so much of my faith to keep believing, keep hoping in the unseen. Sometimes the tunnel has a light at the end, but usually they just look black as night. This song is about that feeling, and the hope that I still have, buried deep in my chest."
He's impatient and sometimes has doubts, but deep down he still has hope and believes.
01-20-2009
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12-19-2008
In terms of my interpretation, I think (for the majority of the song) the person is singing to their ex who may be trying to come back into their life. The relationship or breakup may have been damaging and they're confronting their ex and their problems:
"I've been calling for years and years and years and years
And you never left me no messages
You never send me no letters
You've got some kind of nerve
Taking all I'm worth"
02-02-2009
"I kept getting these phone calls from home - tragedy after tragedy... If there is some kind of person in charge of this planet - are they sleeping? Smoking? Where are they? I just imagined running into God standing on a street corner like Bruce Springsteen, smoking a cigarette, and I'd have it out with him.".[5]
As well as him mentioning God in the song.. it is about a higher being and the faith he wants to keep.
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12-29-2008
but anyway, i feel like this song revisits the same frustrations, fears, and vulnerability that were shown in "over my head." it seems like it's entirely about a feeling of abandonment by one's support group in a time of need. this song actually seems to me to be a bit of a sequel, because now not only is the voice abandoned but help returns to him too late.
"Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me"
also, to me this song seems to dip its toe into the subject of suicide... maybe i'm wrong.
01-03-2009
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01-07-2009
I said, “Where you been?”
He said, “Ask anything.” (God)
Singer: Where were you? When everything was falling apart? All my days Were spent by the telephone It never rang And all I needed was a call It never came To the corner of First and Amistad- (He was looking for God and actively trying to find him when this traumatic experience was starting or happening but he didn’t feel like God was responding or there)
Singer: Lost and insecure- (I was alone, hurting, etc. Why did you let me experience this pain?)
God: You found me, you found me- (Sometimes it takes really a hard time or bad experience for someone to turn to or “find” God, this is how it happened for me)
Singer: Lying on the floor - (He was hurting so badly, a really devastating thing happened to this person)
God: Surrounded, surrounded (I was there with you even though you didn’t realize it)
Singer: Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you? (Why did God let this bad thing happen?)
God: Just a little late. You found me, you found me- (This bad thing happened to the singer and he was devastated by it, his faith (if he would have had it then) could have helped him deal with it but, he did eventually find God).
God: I've been calling for years and years and years and years- (It may not have been bells and whistles and obvious but, I have been in your life even though you didn’t realize it)
Singer: And you never left me no messages. You never send me no letters (Maybe this is while he was trying to decide if there actually was a God…why didn’t you help me?)
The last lines of the song really speak to me:
Singer: Why'd you have to wait? –(Let me experience this pain?)
God: To find me, to find me (Otherwise the singer might not have come to Christ)
This kind of reminds of the story about the footprints dream: the guy thinks God abandoned him during the worst times of his life but really God was carrying or “surrounding” him. (For those not familiar with the story: http://www.footprints-inthe-sand.com/index.php?page=Poem/Poem.php)
I’ve read the previous posts and realize this is probably not the “real” meaning of the song but, it’s how I choose to view it …sorry if I have annoyed you with my Christian view
01-10-2009
01-14-2009
i find comfort in the fact that God will never put anything on my plate that i cannot handle. He believes in me. He thinks i'm strong.
01-18-2009
01-20-2009
thats seriously what i got out of it.
i love songs like this.
it's songs like these that i run to my youth minister
and say "LISTEN LISTEN ITS AMAZING JUST LISTEN"
and he thinks im insane until he listens to it.
:]
i love the fray.
and i absolutely love this song.
and basically im going through what the lead singer is going through right now,
02-03-2009
It makes me want to cry. lol.
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the way you look at it is REALLY.. just.. WOW :O it actually makes a lot of sense, although i dont know if that is actually the way whats-his-name intended to write the song, but if he did he was one REALLY REALLY smart and 'deep'[hate using that word sounds so cheesy XD] guy :)
thank you for sharing this interpretation, it is a really amazing one :)
and dont apologise to those who dont like your christian view of the song! the whole point of this site is that everyone can share their views and shouldnt have to defend them or prove them, if someone doesnt like it then they can keep that to themselves, you've been very considerate in your view-sharing :)
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07-03-2009
07-19-2009
Especially how you broke down the parts!
It's almost like you could picture the situation in your head and it really is a beautiful thing.
Love this song :)
11-05-2009
Again, I like how you break it down, kudos to you.
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01-13-2009
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01-15-2009
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01-16-2009
but now that everybody just turned it into a song that they'll sing at fucking church every sunday,
i think i beg to differ.
i only like the chorus anyway.
and idk what it means.
02-02-2009
just let it be.
04-12-2009
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01-17-2009
These lyrics are obviously a call-and-answer type conversation between the singer and God.
The singer's love has died, 'how long she will be next to me', and he has started to doubt God. A relationship is a 2-way street, and a one with God is no different. In other words, the singer is left wondering the ignorant, yet entirely human, question "Why?", while the man 'on the corner of 1st and Armistad' is waiting for him to call with this problem. In the end, the singer swallows his scrutiny after all these years and comes back to the 'corner'.
Again, this is a dynamic song, yet is easy to understand if you look at it in a christain sense.
I did what I thought, I did what I did, & I did what I could.
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01-26-2009
Even if you aren't a Christian, please don't snub the song just because it has Christian inspiration. Think of it this way, God just happens to be the strongest influence in these mens' lives, so of course it's going to come through in their song writing. You write what inspires passion in you, whether it be love, sadness, God, or any number of other things.
I really like the part where it says:' I said, “Where you been?”
He said, “Ask anything.”' Without this part the meaning of the song would be completely different. With it, it's basically a man crying out to God and asking why it took so long, when really God was there all along but the man just lost sight of that. Without this part, the song wouldn't really be 'Christian'.
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01-27-2009
i found God-he found the strength to say something
Where were you, when everything was falling apart?.... where were you in my childhood.... during divorce
All my days were spent by the telephone that never rang..... waiting for his father to visit
And all I needed was a call that never came.... looking for nuture
To the corner of 1st and Amistad.... this is where he was!
But in the end everyone ends up alone
Losing her, the only one who's ever known
Who I am, who I'm not and who I wanna to be
No way to know how long she will be next to me
this could be about his mother.... or how he's failed in relations because of trust issues
the rest self explanatory
01-28-2009
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01-28-2009
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01-29-2009
I found God on the corner of 1st and Amistad
Where the West was all but won
All alone, smoking his last cigarette
I said, "Where you been?" He said, "Ask anything."
(I think guy has killed him self at this place. and now that he is dead he finds out there is a higher power)
Where were you, when everything was falling apart?
All my days were spent by the telephone that never rang
And all I needed was a call that never came
To the corner of 1st and Amistad
(I think before he killed himself he was looking for a reason to live, possibly praying and looking for an answer from God. Whether this answer came from a friend or family. In the form of a letter or call when he needed it most. But he says that answer, that reason, never came)
Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late, you found me, you found me.
(he was feeling lost and insecure. and now that he is dead god is finaly there. lying on the floor surrounded is probly refering to him being dead. he is now probaly surrouned by police and EMS. Maybe friends or family that he needed are there now. And he's asking god why he had to wait til now to show him self. Hes saying its just alil late because he cant undo killing himself. )
But in the end everyone ends up alone
Losing her, the only one who's ever known
Who I am, who I'm not and who I wanna to be
No way to know how long she will be next to me
(Maybe his gf left him beacuse of him always having a bad outlook on life, or maybe he was holding her down with him or something like that. And she was the person who knew more about him than anyone else. Now she is there next to him amongst the chaos. but he knows this is the last time she will be next to him because he is no longer alive.)
Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late, you found me, you found me.
(repeat)
The early morning, the city breaks
And I've been calling for years and years and years
And you never left me no messages
You never sent me no letters
You got some kind of nerve taking all I'm worth
(now he is tlkign to god again about how all this time he was waithing for an answer. and he sayin hes got some kinda nerve because god could have saved him if he woulda just shown him self. but he waited n it cost this guy everything, including his life)
Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor
Where were you? Where were you?
Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late, you found me, you found me.
Why'd you have to wait, to find me, to find me?
05-21-2009
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01-29-2009
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01-30-2009
02-02-2009
In an interview, Isaac Slade expressed his meaning behind the lyrics of the song:
"You Found Me" is a tough song for me. Its about the disappointment, the heart ache, the let down that comes with life. Sometimes you’re let down, sometimes you’re the one who lets someone else down. It gets hard to know who you can trust, who you can count on. This song came out of a tough time, and I’m still right in the thick of it. There’s some difficult circumstances my family and friends have been going through over the past year or so and can be overwhelming. It wears on me. It demands so much of my faith to keep believing, keep hoping in the unseen. Sometimes the tunnel has a light at the end, but usually they just look black as night. This song is about that feeling, and the hope that I still have, buried deep in my chest.
Additionally, in another recent interview Isaac Slade declared that:
"I kept getting these phone calls from home - tragedy after tragedy... If there is some kind of person in charge of this planet - are they sleeping? Smoking? Where are they? I just imagined running into God standing on a street corner like Bruce Springsteen, smoking a cigarette, and I'd have it out with him."
So he is asking God about the problem of evil, why bad things happen to good people, after some of their friends and family went through very tough times.
02-04-2009
02-12-2009
God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, or sun without rain.
But god did promise strength for the day, comforts for the tears, and a light to lead the way
and for all who believe in his kingdom above, he answers their faith with everlasting love.
this man must understand that the things that happen in the world are not usually caused by god there caused by us the problems in our lifes we must take responsibility for when we make the wrong choices or someone else around us does god gives us a place to go where we can cry it is okay to be angry but remember that no matter what stands in your way anything is possible with god anything trust me i've moved mountains, no matter how big we must believe or we die inside ourselves and if you need faith then seek it. but mainly when you're depressed help everybody around you donate money helping people is the best cure for depression (but the work must actually take away if you're a millionaire than don't just give a hundred bucks away give one-hundred thousand away. Trust me it works really well.
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