As happy and peppy as this song sounds, I always found a bit of a darker part in these lyrics.
"Depression, please cut to the chase and cut a long story short
Oh, please be done how much longer can this drama afford to run?
Fate looks sharp severs all my ties
And breaks whatever doesn't bend
But sadly then, all my heavy hopes just pull me back down again"
"Cut a long story short" sounds like suicide- cutting a naturally long life short
"How much longer can this drama afford to run?" hard times in life always seem to last a long time
"Fate looks sharp/whatever doesn't bend" meaning that life sometimes dries us away from loved ones
"all my hopes just pull me back down again" meaning that hopes have been smashed several times
To me, this song is about being depressed and possibly as low as you can go- but you still have the optimism to expect a "light at the end of the tunnel", meaning that soon you'll be out of this tunnel of depression and thrown into the light of being okay. It's an "everything is going to be alright, in time" kind of song, and I'm glad he wrote something like this. ♥
i like that. this song talks about the downs in life, yet brings them up with his religion. i agree with you on the dark side of this, yet it also has the "happy" side. all in all, we all love owl city right? and his love for god. look in his album for instance. "all praise and glory for Jesus christ". thats the #1 reason we should all love owl city. and jesus.
i like that. this song talks about the downs in life, yet brings them up with his religion. i agree with you on the dark side of this, yet it also has the "happy" side. all in all, we all love owl city right? and his love for god. look in his album for instance. "all praise and glory for Jesus christ". thats the #1 reason we should all love owl city. and jesus.
As happy and peppy as this song sounds, I always found a bit of a darker part in these lyrics.
"Depression, please cut to the chase and cut a long story short Oh, please be done how much longer can this drama afford to run? Fate looks sharp severs all my ties And breaks whatever doesn't bend But sadly then, all my heavy hopes just pull me back down again"
"Cut a long story short" sounds like suicide- cutting a naturally long life short "How much longer can this drama afford to run?" hard times in life always seem to last a long time "Fate looks sharp/whatever doesn't bend" meaning that life sometimes dries us away from loved ones "all my hopes just pull me back down again" meaning that hopes have been smashed several times
To me, this song is about being depressed and possibly as low as you can go- but you still have the optimism to expect a "light at the end of the tunnel", meaning that soon you'll be out of this tunnel of depression and thrown into the light of being okay. It's an "everything is going to be alright, in time" kind of song, and I'm glad he wrote something like this. ♥
I agree with this completely.
I agree with this completely.
i like that. this song talks about the downs in life, yet brings them up with his religion. i agree with you on the dark side of this, yet it also has the "happy" side. all in all, we all love owl city right? and his love for god. look in his album for instance. "all praise and glory for Jesus christ". thats the #1 reason we should all love owl city. and jesus.
i like that. this song talks about the downs in life, yet brings them up with his religion. i agree with you on the dark side of this, yet it also has the "happy" side. all in all, we all love owl city right? and his love for god. look in his album for instance. "all praise and glory for Jesus christ". thats the #1 reason we should all love owl city. and jesus.