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We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
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This song is about not wanting to live. It's about feeling alone and not being able to find anyone that you can identify with. It's about feeling like a outcast and not being able to fit in anywhere. I would site lines but there up their, take a look. Easy song to understand.
@PsykeZ555 Terrible interpretation that misses the point. What about "misprinted lies?" What about "privacy?" What about "gift of self?" None of these fit with this ridiculous interpretation that cops out by falsely claiming "the lines are up their [sic]."
@despondent not saying I agree with @PsykeZ555 interpretation fully but I think that the line "We chase misprinted lies" very much agrees with the theme of being an outcast (that is don't see reality the same as the rest of us).<br /> <br /> Similar the lines about gift of self and privacy fit the themes offered of feeling alone, no identity and not fitting in. That is they feel like everyone has taken advantage of them and abused their nature.<br /> <br /> I don't agree that it is about "not wanting to live" ... I think the song is arguing that sometimes life is a struggle (i.e. depression, drug abuse, relationships, expectations, conformity, loneliness / isolation) and that perhaps it would be easier just to give up (die) ...
@PsykeZ555 - Fair enough. I agree with you. Thanks for the reply.
@PsykeZ555 to build on your point a bit - It's about feeling like a outcast (as Layne did I imagine) while being under the microscope of fame (no privacy as the lyrics mention). He was a drug addict who found out the hard way that no drug out there could drown out or help anyone escape that kind of darkness.