Jimmy Eat World – A Sunday

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On a Sunday I'll think it through.
On the drive back I'll think it through.
What you wish for won't come true.
Live with that.
On a Sunday she thought it through.
Now as I drive back, there's thiry-six less hours I have to change the course I send myself.
Live with that.
On a Sunday go once around.
Because when the rides done, the hopes that you have carried, they fall out from your hands back to the ground.
Live with that.
Learn as the drugs leave.
Learn as you lose it.
You will.
The haze clears from your eyes on a Sunday.

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    My Interpretation:This song feels like when I started walking away from Christianity. I remember leaving church so many times, thinking through what just happened and how it was getting progressively difficult to believe what I heard and how much of it went against my basic humanity. Eventually I lost faith altogether, which is difficult. There's a realization that I can't just ask God to fix things or lean on God for help. I just have to take what comes to me, do the best I can, and live with it. When things are done for me, they're done, and I take nothing to any afterlife. It's a hard thing to deal with sometimes, but what else is there to do but live with it? It seems to me that the first part of the song deals with coming to terms with a loss of faith, but the end - those last four lines - are positive; it's all going to be okay....
    Flag Cojjyon February 29, 2012   Link
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    My Interpretation:Jimmy Eat World convey such amazing amounts of power and emotion through their lyrics.
    I think that with many of their songs there are often many ways in which the listener can interpret what is being sung.
    Personally, 'A Sunday' conveys an experience with drugs. I think if you can relate your own life with a song, such as this one, and be able to gain greater understanding with something yourself, then the originally intended meaning is not significant.

    'Because when the rides done, the hopes that you have carried, they fall out from your hands back to the ground.
    Live with that.' For me, this feels so typical of my own experiences with drugs when the comedown begins to highlight what you have left in your life. I hope that perhaps Jim and the boys wrote this in hope that it may make people think twice about taking drugs and the consequences that arise. But as he goes on to sing 'Learn as the drugs leave. Learn as you lose it. You will.' If your reading this before or after you have taken drugs, please think it about it yourself, and learn. The lyrics are so powerful.

    It is easy to relate J.E.W.'s songs with so many different scenarios, if it feels true to you, believe it and learn something from it. Every song has an important lesson that can help you understand what is going on in your life.
    Flag dayzzon December 02, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:what an awesome song. im going thru a breakup now. its like we both love each other alot but sumtimes things just dont work out coz probably it doesnt only take 'love' to make a relationship work. theres lots of other things. learn as the drugs leave. learn as you lose it. i think the drug here relates to his ex gf that he finds it hard to live without. but only time will heal.
    Flag skullnroseson October 25, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I think that Jim uses "Sunday" as just another way of saying closure. tome is about a relationship going wrong and having to change the course you were heading to. Like something that left as unexpectedly as it came. Like life with it's constant twists and turns that makes us start again and having to learn how to live with that.
    Flag punker girlon July 14, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:does anyone think this song sounds a hell of a lot like 'today' by the smashing pumpkins? or is it just me? this is the first song on the album i liked, this is a beautiful song.
    Flag jazza225on October 09, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:this song is just about dealing with the inevitable changes in life..i think its about a girl thats leaving a guys life for some reason or another, and all of his hopes for a relationship "fall back to the ground." the haze clears from his eyes and he realizes no matter how much he doesnt want her to leave, he has to live with the fact that he'll be without her
    Flag Like_A_Breathon June 30, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:a hangover or something?!
    ok, it's about love, and sundays are always depressing, because it's the end of the week, and yesterday was saturday, and you were happy (wiht a girl or with your friends drunk in a club) and now, it's over and you are bored, so you take drugs or drink alcohol to be happy... (sorry for my english..uaaa)
    Flag seronjaaon February 09, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Great song. Can't stop hearing it. Clarity was the third Album I bought from them after Bleed American and Futures and I was sceptical if they were able to be that excellent.
    Flag dinowiton January 07, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:To me this song is just about sitting back awhile and reflecting, even though you know you can't change the past. Then you have to just go back to normal and get on with your life (off work on sunday, back on a monday kind of thing). I don't think I'm making any sense, but I think this song is more emotion, so there isnt really a meaning set in stone. Meh, I don't know, I just know there's something about this song that I really love...
    Flag personno.1on November 24, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:on a sunday my friend was killed my his mother. she was addicted to drugs, he also used to be, but now because of his new girlfriend, he was cleaing his life up. his mom got insanely jealous and switched his pills around, so when he took them, he would never wake up. i bought this album a week before this happened. this song is all about realizing that death is a part of living.

    when the drugs leave, that help you cope, you feel reality for the first time.

    learn as you lose, a friend in my case.

    the haze clears from your eyes as you deal with the loss and know that this is part of life.

    everything is eventual.
    Flag tonymontana444on October 02, 2006   Link

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