Oh, can't anybody see
We've got a war to fight
Never found our way
Regardless of what they say
How can it feel, this wrong
From this moment
How can it feel, this wrong
Storm, in the morning light
I feel
No more can I say
Frozen to myself
I got nobody on my side
And surely that ain't right
And surely that ain't right
Oh, can't anybody see
We've got a war to fight
Never found our way
Regardless of what they say
How can it feel, this wrong
From this moment
How can it feel, this wrong

How can it feel, this wrong
This moment
How can it feel, this wrong
Oh, can't anybody see
We've got a war to fight
Never found our way
Regardless of what they say
How can it feel, this wrong
From this moment
How can it feel, this wrong



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Track duration: 05:05

"Roads" as written by Beth Gibbons Adrian Utley

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    My Interpretation:As a viewer see's a painting, your eyes are unique, just as your experience and sometimes we see eye to eye with others.
    For me, this is a song about the shifting of the old earth paradigm and the chaos that is a part for the new foundations to be built but only after the old, that no longer serve our optimal purpose, fights to remain as it falls apart.
    The past few generations that have incarnated have come to tear this draconian pyramid down and also hold a light in such a dark time. Many conscious people feel so alone and that their path is bombarded by these cold heartless warmonger blood thirsty vampires.
    It's what this world does to people, gifted, sensitive and to the core, good hearted and ripped apart... Isolated and caught in between the war within... " I got nobody on my side and surely that ain't right" When their is such internal conflict, its almost like watching the dual nature rip itself into pieces, until we fight and pick up the pieces... support from those who care is only a fraction when you get to the conscious age or stage that you realize, you have to go alone and deal with the ghosts within, the shadow and come out the other size with a few pieces towards becoming whole and in a space of healing on a foundation that embraces us, just as we have created a catalyst within.
    Flag Lemure333on February 04, 2013   Link
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    My Interpretation:To me, it represents a losing battle within yourself for happiness/fulfillment...manifesting itself as a war with the outside world...in a search for self-fulfillment through others/things...an unfilled void..."I've got nobody on my side and surely that ain't right". I think as you grow older, past college, 20's ...you realize life is a useless struggle-a war between your true self and society's expectations ( work, family, etc)...you have a war to fight...never find your way...going through life alone - because of the addiction to material things and other people...a useless means to true love and happiness...because you don't fit in just being yourself...and the struggle to fit in is the reason that you never found your way...now that it is too late because you "fit in"...how can it feel this wrong?
    Flag vanrod18on January 05, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:I understand this song has so many enchanting interpretations...but for me, it will forever remind me of a play that I was a part of titled Tar and Feathers. Set in 1926 Texas, Mother Road was the lead woman. The plot isn't necessarily important right now but she was a woman of such presence and beauty. Near the end of the second act, this song came on and she did a whole dance to it, dim glowing lights on the set that was the Road. Her story was about loneliness...loss of love. The understanding that she could never love again. Every time I hear it I cant help but cry. It's that kind of song you wish you could live in.
    Flag MotherRoadon November 25, 2011   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:To me it is one of the most gorgeous songs/tunes I have ever heard, I think of poor people, people less fortunate than ourselves, also war and the way humanity has been so utterly disgusting as a whole. There seem to be so few even on this forum, who get what life really means - (including myself, I am not a saint!)I think wizard69's first comment was valid about the western world!
    To me we are all the same, we all share the same planet and we should, all get on! This is what we are here for, humans, animals and plants. I want the whole world to unite in peace, unity and love. Don't you?
    Flag DSOTMADBon June 01, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:We've got a war to fight
    Never found our way

    Faith is lost; disillusionment reveals the absence of answers, the lack of direction.
    Flag ParanoidAndrewon December 18, 2010   Link
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    Song Meaning:This is what's so unique about Beth's songs: however sincere they are (and they are sincere to the point of shock!), you nevertheless never actually know what she's singing about :)

    My first (long ago) impression, was that it's a vaguely political song.
    Then I thought, it's a song about being an artist (when everybody around is "practical" and saying things like "why don't you do something real", or, "you have to do interviews and promotion, or the record won't sell". Now I think it might be a song about being gay (which would clarify the "Never found our way
    Regardless of what they say" lines for me, which seem illogical otherwise... Society proclaiming itself "tolerant" whereas it's in fact still far from that).
    Or it might as well be about the general pain of being a relatively normal individual in a sick society... hence lonelyness and desperation.

    A magically beautiful and universally true song... But still, I'm very curious, what exactly was it for her.
    Flag Miyukion November 12, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:This is made the day before breaking up with the one you once loved..?
    What was once so good..turned out to be so wrong..
    Flag teufeltjeon August 21, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:This song was also featured in the documentary "Sharkwater" and in the short tribute video for Sophie Lancaster (youtube.com/…)
    Flag Noriko333on August 06, 2010   Link
  • 0
    Song Meaning:this song is about love affair...
    Flagged zbxon July 15, 2010   Link
  • +3
    Memory:This song has to do with trying to be and do what the "norm" is. It reminds me of when I came to the conclusion I am gay.
    Flag sunmoon1on March 14, 2010   Link

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