what is the real meaning behind Come Back?

Big Bank Hank

If I keep holding out
Will the light shine through?
Under this broken roof
It's only rain that I feel
I've been wishin' out the days
Oh oh oh
Come back

I have been planning out
All that I'd say to you
Since you slipped away
Know that I still remain true
I've been wishin' out the days
Please say that if you hadn't have gone now
I wouldn't have lost you another way
From wherever you are
Oh oh oh oh
Come back

And these days, they linger on, yeah, yeah
And in the night, I've been waiting for
A real possibility that I may meet you in my dreams
I go to sleep

If I don't fall apart
Will my memory stay clear?
So you had to go
And I had to remain here
But the strangest thing to date
So far away and yet you feel so close
I'm not going to question it any other way
It must be an open door for you
To come back

And the days they linger on, yeah
Every night I'm waiting for
The real possibility that I may meet you in my dreams
Sometimes you're there and you're talking back to me
Come the morning I could swear you're next to me
And it's ok

It's ok, it's ok

I'll be here
Come back, come back
I'll be here
Come back, come back
I'll be here
Come back, come back
Oooooooo
Oooooooo
Oooooooo
Oooooooo


if it is about a love that died it is just a rewording or a different way of saying the song Last Kiss, and to be honest the song would really lose it's meaning, I have always read the lyrics as a love that has left, and she has moved on, but that the love is so great you can't let that love go and would take her back no questions asked, and just calling out to her wherever she is in hopes she will return. we all have had someone we loved, I mean really love and you would do anything to bring them back

Jeremys Spoken

It's anything you want it to be. Music is universal. It could have hundreds of meanings. It's however it makes you feel at that moment. Hard to pinpoint meanings with PJ.

darthvedder

Johnny Ramone.

morello

darthvedder wrote:

Johnny Ramone.

Yeah I've heard that as well.

Big Bank Hank

morello wrote:

darthvedder wrote:

Johnny Ramone.

Yeah I've heard that as well.

well if that's true that is a cool tribute

Shawshank

It's supposed to have been written for Johnny's wife after he died...so the lyrics are from her perspective.

RedMosquito02

darthvedder wrote:

Johnny Ramone.

This

LukinFan

the south

Tboz51

I have always thought this song was about 3 and a half minutes long. About Frank Reich and his job he did in that playoff game against the Oilers.

The time when he was not doing so well, then BAM! He had Comeback!!

BinauralJam

Tboz51 wrote:

I have always thought this song was about 3 and a half minutes long. About Frank Reich and his job he did in that playoff game against the Oilers.

The time when he was not doing so well, then BAM! He had Comeback!!

:thumbup:

youngster

LukinFan wrote:

the south

DewieCox

Big Bank Hank wrote:

if it is about a love that died it is just a rewording or a different way of saying the song Last Kiss, and to be honest the song would really lose it's meaning, I have always read the lyrics as a love that has left, and she has moved on, but that the love is so great you can't let that love go and would take her back no questions asked, and just calling out to her wherever she is in hopes she will return. we all have had someone we loved, I mean really love and you would do anything to bring them back

I feel the opposite. On the surface it's you're standard lost love song, but when you apply death, it becomes much more poignant and poetic....and the Frank Reich thing

whispering hands

Shawshank wrote:

It's supposed to have been written for Johnny's wife after he died...so the lyrics are from her perspective.

This..

PJ_Soul

What matters is what it means to you. It's got a personal meaning for Eddie, but that can't apply to anyone else on a level deeper than "this is why Eddie wrote it", so we all have to apply our own meaning to really get something out of it. Come Back is one of those songs from which a LOT of people can find meaning.

(omg, that is so weird, just as I was writing this, "Comeback Kid" came on on the radio. :shock: )

I'm a Truck

LukinFan wrote:

the south

Double

rollings

DewieCox wrote:

Big Bank Hank wrote:

if it is about a love that died it is just a rewording or a different way of saying the song Last Kiss, and to be honest the song would really lose it's meaning, I have always read the lyrics as a love that has left, and she has moved on, but that the love is so great you can't let that love go and would take her back no questions asked, and just calling out to her wherever she is in hopes she will return. we all have had someone we loved, I mean really love and you would do anything to bring them back

I feel the opposite. On the surface it's you're standard lost love song, but when you apply death, it becomes much more poignant and poetic....and the Frank Reich thing

I don't know. I think it's more poignant if it's considered to be NOT about death. Because then the song is more dramatic and with more turmoil if the person COULD actually come back.

Because if the person is NOT coming back, this song is no more than wailing. for Johnny Ramone.

....and those words about going to sleep because there's the real possibility of meeting the person in your dreams....those words are just killer

majleap3

For me, when I first heard it I had this vision of a widow of a military man screaming at his casket "Come Back, Come Back!". Maybe because there was a military theme on other songs on the album I viewed it this way. Either way this song caused a stronger reaction in me than any other song they've written. Good stuff!

slightofjeff

majleap3 wrote:

For me, when I first heard it I had this vision of a widow of a military man screaming at his casket "Come Back, Come Back!".

There's a reason, IMO, this song appears directly after Army Reserve on the album. This, to me, will always be the sad epilogue to AR, which is by itself is pretty open-ended.

It is 100 percent a death song. If one wants to believe that it is not, one is free to do that in America. But even Ed has said it's about death.

Frankly, it's more powerful that way. Some of the lyrics don't make totally sense in the context of a simple "lost love" song.