Def Leppard – Paper Sun

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  Song Comparison:For me,Paper sun is a song about that i have bipolar disorder, and that my mental disorder when i was hypomanic went beyond young girls in a bad way,and that i was living on a paper sun when i treated the girls bad when i was hypomanic,a metaphor for that i thought the bad way i treated the girls was right of me, and didnt understand the seriousness of what i did to them.
  
  And that when i knew what i really did to them beginned to regret what i did to them, so i got very depressed and felt very bad.
  
  i associate the part of the text: you will discover the way to suffer with this.
  
  
  Cause your living on a paper sun,blind to all the damage done:
  I feelt joy when the girls felt discomfort of nasty words i said to them,and thought
  it was okay of me to take revenge on them that way,and didnt understand the
  seriousness of what i did to them.
  
  But for me also Paper sun general is a song about when people with bipolar disorder are manic or hypomanic,and are bad to people and feel proud of it,and so begin to regret what they did to people and begin to feel very bad when they realize what they actually did.

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  General Comment:This song is about the Omagh Bombing, Northern Ireland, 1998.

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  General Comment:When I first heard this I kept thinking what on earth a "Paper Sun" could mean. A "Paper tiger" is something we think is powerful but has no strength and is a chimera. So what on earth is a false sun? Def Leppard has always disliked organized religion. Could several lines be a cryptic play on words with Sun meaning "Son" or "Savior"...The Son of God? Could it be a statement that Christianity is a joke and that people who rely on Christ are living on a "paper son" or "dream", putting their faith in something false. "I don't believe in you" (No belief in God or the Savior) you've come undone (people get carried away in religion) Blind to all the damage done (how organized religion hasn't been helpful.
  
  I know this is a stretch, but I'm convinced some of the lines are a sly jab at religion.
  Of course Cheesemaesto's take is probably the best straightforward meaning.

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  General Comment:I agree

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  General Comment:To me this is easily the best track off Euphoria (which by their earlier standards is distinctly average). Anyway, the meaning. I don't know why but to me the lyrics seem at least in part to describe a boy who is abused by their father. For example "hurt to remember", "help to forget", Is the anger inside of you, a gift from father to sun" (He has great anger at the thought of his abuse and his father abused him hence "a gift from father to sun". The lines "Blind to all the damage done", and "Waiting for the tide to turn" suggest that they are doing nothing at the moment to stand up for themselves and make it stop. That would seem to be the main meaning of this song. A boy being abused by his father and doing nothing about apart from wishing it would stop.
  
  There's so much more depth I could go nto but i feel i should leave that to other posters.

  Flag cheesemaestroon August 16, 2005   Link

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    I actually think your real close. But it talks about walking the broken land. To add, I think it's someone who's confused in their later life. And who's been confused. 'There's nothing left to justify', the person who makes excuses to justify why his life is the way it is or why they do things the way they do. But they they refuse to believe they actually know. And you're right, my mind is full of things for this song. Love the hell outta it. It is the best song on the album in my opinion.

    Flag Slikkzillaon August 14, 2012  

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