Avril Lavigne – I'm With You

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  General Comment:I can't believe that she was about 17 years old when she came out with this one. Thoughts signifying wisdom and contemplation beyond her years. Amazing.

  Flag DizzyD312on February 13, 2013   Link

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  My Interpretation:This, to me, is about a teenage runaway.
  
  "I'm standing on a bridge
  I'm waitin' in the dark"
  
  Why a bridge? Bridges are a common suicide spot. End of the rope after a long depression, essentially.
  
  "I thought that you'd be here by now"
  
  Where "you" refers not to a boyfriend, but anyone who cares enough to go out and find her.
  
  "There's nothing but the rain
  No footsteps on the ground
  I'm listening but there's no sound"
  
  She's desperately hoping someone will come for her.
  
  "Isn't anyone tryin' to find me?
  Won't somebody come take me home"
  
  A cry for help, for attention and compassion and warmth.
  
  "It's a damn cold night"
  
  Cold nights matter a lot if you're on the streets.
  
  "Trying to figure out this life"
  
  She doesn't feel she belongs at her home, else she wouldn't have ran. But misery on the streets couldn't possibly be her calling, surely?
  
  "Won't you take me by the hand
  Take me somewhere new
  I don't know who you are
  But I... I'm with you"
  
  And finally, someone found her. Someone who cares enough to take her somewhere new, anywhere but where she currently is. She doesn't know who he is, but she'll go with him. The desperation, the cry for help, the depression, it all culminates in this, and maybe things will work out.

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  General Comment:I think this song is about being lost in the world even though it is so busy. She is lost and lonely and wants someone to help her. Really love it.. its like avril exposed for the first time.

  Flag collette28on June 07, 2012   Link

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    She's with you? LOL. She's on her way downtown with cell phone in hand as she prepares to meet up with her boyfriend. A never ending con game. Too bad the only real loser is the one trying to run the con...

    Flag freetobemeon February 13, 2013  
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  My Interpretation:This song says to me that Avril Lavigne does have brains to write fine decent talented music, instead of the pop bullshit she's doing now.
  
  About the lyrics, seems to me that someone stood her up and that made her feel lonely. And then she finds or hopes to find someone to take her out of that moment.

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  General Comment:I like and care so much about Avril Lavigne that I didn't have the right title of the flippin song.Anyways,I like this song. :)

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  General Comment:I think this song is about suicide. (standing on the bridge, im waiting in the dark, I thought that you would be here by now).
  
  i think she waiting for herself to come back. I think shes in a state and wants her old self back.
  (i dont know who you are but im with you (herself but not herself).)

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  General Comment:Who knows if anyone will read this but this song is so powerful I feel like I have to still give my take on it...
  
  Most of this song I think is symbolic, so when she is waiting on the bridge for someone this is symbolic of all the times in her life when she was waiting for someone that either never showed or never satisfied her. I think when she says "I thought that you'd be here by now" she is referring to her "perfect guy" that of course never comes.
  
  The next part, "no foot steps on the ground" and "waiting but there's no sound" emphasizes her aloneness as does her questioning isn't anybody trying to find me? I think this is symbolic of where she was at in her career. At this time, she was the new big thing and I think the hollowness that she found there is the inspiration for this song.
  
  The "damn cold night" is symbolic of her utter loneliness in searching for the meaning to this life. She now had it all and realized it didn't satisfy her. But in the midst of this loneliness she feels something. "Won't you take me by the hand take me somewhere new, I don't know who you are but I, I'm with you." I think that in what was maybe her lowest moment, she felt God. She is asking God to take her somewhere new and although she has no idea who God is, she can feel him and knows that he is the key to "finding something new" or finding something that will bring her satisfaction and contentment.
  
  This song then, I think is about her finding God in the depths of her suffering and attempting to be led by him to somewhere else or "some place new"
  

  Flag dckirkpatrick21on October 05, 2011   Link

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    I just read this and this is the best take on the song I have seen!! I think your totally right! Could you write something about nickelback's do this anymore? Your takes on song are really good and I cant understand that one. But on the point of avril Lavigne this is her best song I think and you got it down too a T xx

    Flag LyricsGirlon November 04, 2011  

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    I think that this analysis fits. I specifically searched google for "avril lavigne i'm with you god," after randomly coming back to this song after years of first hearing it. i have been totally lost and dark. recently, i have been clawing my way out. THIS SONG definitely meant something else when I was younger, and now God screamed out to me. It was obvious and I asked myself how I hadn't understood this before? But everyone is searching for a savior, it is our only hope.

    Flag screamgorxon October 11, 2012  
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  General Comment:I think it's about how when you love someone but they aren't there so you are left alone and you find out he's not looking for you. Then you have to kind of go on with life alone, and you're waiting for the right person to come along...the one you were meant to be. You're kind of searching for that person and whenever you are with someone you try to have good memories with them. This song is so sad because I can totally relate. I might be wrong though and it being about loving someone that doesn't love you back though.

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  My Interpretation:This song is absolutly amazing... I have heard amny interpretations from shes figuring out herself to shes a prostitute, however, my opinion is that she got stood up by a guy. It even says in the begining "I thought that you'd be here by now" and "won't somebody come take me home". She listens for his footsteps but theirs no sound. Clearly this was a guy she really trusted to come get her, and now shes alone in a bad situation obviously, at night in the rain without a car, and feels like he really didn't care about her and no one cares about her. When she says "I don't know who you are but I'm with you" she means she feels like she doesn't know the guy she is supposed to be dating anymore. Its sad really. In the second verse she's looking for someone else to help her out but she doesn't know any one. It can be a startling thing when you come to the relization that the world is soo big and full of people you don't know. Avril feels very alone.This is just an incredable song that sums up the feeling of lonliness in a big world so well. Some people can't be trusted and it hurts when you trust some one and they break your trust.

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  General Comment:this songs about starting over and loneliness

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