Heard this tonight on the season finale of Breaking Bad. Beautiful song.
For me this song is about how we screw up our lives and don't live up to our best because of our circumstances. The writer is thinking about dying and is reflecting on their life: "Until you travel to that place you can't come back" When you face death, all the lies you told about about yourself become irrelevant and you realize what you really are and what your legacy has been.
"Some day they'll punish my deeds and they'll find all the crimes" where 'they' is God. We desperately try and explain to him that there's way more to our lives than the bits we screwed up and we had dreams that we wanted to fulfill but found it so hard.
"Then they gonna ask to feel the ghosts, the walls, the dreams we'll I've got mine"
And even at the end, when you finally manage to make some progress it almost kills you "And when you follow through and wind up on your back" and then you die regardless.
Heard this tonight on the season finale of Breaking Bad. Beautiful song.
For me this song is about how we screw up our lives and don't live up to our best because of our circumstances. The writer is thinking about dying and is reflecting on their life: "Until you travel to that place you can't come back" When you face death, all the lies you told about about yourself become irrelevant and you realize what you really are and what your legacy has been.
"Some day they'll punish my deeds and they'll find all the crimes" where 'they' is God. We desperately try and explain to him that there's way more to our lives than the bits we screwed up and we had dreams that we wanted to fulfill but found it so hard.
"Then they gonna ask to feel the ghosts, the walls, the dreams we'll I've got mine"
And even at the end, when you finally manage to make some progress it almost kills you "And when you follow through and wind up on your back" and then you die regardless.