Goo Goo Dolls, The

Iris

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by The Wanlorn

22y ago

I think I really know what this song means because it sort of applies to me (and everybody else on the planet). "I don't want the world to see me/Cuz I don't think that they'd understand." Pretty much sums it up. It's about not showing anybody your true self because you're too afraid. It's hiding yourself behind made-up images, copied from other people and then compiled into one for you, so you don't get hurt. It's about wishing there was just one person you could show your true self to, and finding that person (you think), then losing the nerve. "And you can't fight the tears..." verse is finally realizing you can never show anybody. Or letting a bit of the 'real you' slip. That's the 'moment of truth in the lies'. Nothing feels real because you're hiding, is the "movie" part. I love this song (and hte video) because I really identify with it. This one, and Jumper...

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by JRFetter 14y ago

Very true I feel this way everyday I'm not really fake what I show people is real but I can't let them in I've never really had someone that cares about me well that stuck around anyway this song hits me pretty hard I find it near impossible to show my true true self to anyone

by Chasenoye 13y ago

Jumper and Iris are my two favorite songs also. And based on your analysis of the song, i think we feel the same about each of these two songs. They are definitely my "depressed" songs and have helped but me through some rough times. Thanks for your analysis. Makes me feel like I'm not the only crazy one out there.

by keith702 10y ago

Iris my interaction

And I'd give up forever to touch you -I will give up anything to be with you

'Cuz I kno that yu feel me somehow -You can relate to me

You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be -you the only person that really know me and that helps blocks out my depression

And I don't want to go home right now -I don't want this to end

And all I can taste is this moment -cough up in the moment

they don't know what I been thru and why I'm like this

When everything's made to be broken -I came to terms that even if thing are going good for a sec it will get worse/broken

I just wish you knew so it would be that much easer, but I don't wanna take that risk (and at times I don't even know who I am )

And I don't want the world to see me 'Cause I don't think that they'd understand When everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who I am

Iris my interaction

And I'd give up forever to touch you
-I will give up anything to be with you

'Cuz I kno that yu feel me somehow
-You can relate to me

You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
-you the only person that really know me and that helps blocks out my depression

And I don't want to go home right now
-I don't want this to end

And all I can taste is this moment
-cough up in the moment

And all I can breathe is your life
-we are the same ,different person same life
'Cause sooner or later it's over
-as good as this is,everything ends

I just don't want to miss you tonight
-I wanna live in the moment

And I don't want the world to see me
-Don't want anybody to know the real me ,it's to risky

Cuhhzz I dn't think that they'd understand
-They just will judge me

When everything's made to be broken
-in my life it seems like everything is goin wrong/ broke,it alway been like this

I just want you to know who I am
-I want you to know the real me and why I'm like this and where I'm coming from

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
-when I'm depressed I feel numb so no matter how much you wanna cry so I can fell a little better the tears won't come

Or the moment of truth in your lies
-you can say you fine but the the truth about you being depressed  will surface

When everything feels like the movies 
-life feels like a movie and it gets you thinking what is life, when you over think it it makes you more depressed, (some time I think what is next, they say life is eternal , we'll I don't wanna life for ever but I don't wanna die)

And you bleed just to know you're alive 
-your depressed so you cut your self and the blood is the thing that make you realize your living(what's real?)

And I don't want the world to see me
-They won't except me

'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
- they don't know what I been thru and why I'm like this

When everything's made to be broken
-I came to terms that even if  thing are going good for a sec it will get worse/broken

I just want you to know who I am
-I want you to know how I feel but I can't express my sell Cuhhzz I will be judge (internal crying )

And I don't want the world to see me
-I don't want anyone to know the real me

'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
-they don't know how it feels to be depressed and on the edge of the Clift ,waiting to end your life because your unhappy with it

When everything's made to be broken
-it seems like no matter what I do everything gets fucked up

I just want you to know who I am
- I just wish you knew so it would be that much easer, but I don't wanna take that risk (and at times I don't even know who I am )

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
	
-I feel at the end of the song it  repeats  "I just want you to know who I am".to emphasize  I want you to know everything about me from the depression ;cutting my wrist, and all the challenges that I have ;that has me like this (having multiple personality) hanging with different people trying to find the real me ,but for some reason idk what is the real me , I just have been depress led for so long

-KDW

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