this may be stupid
LNB1402
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I've got scratches, all over my arms
One for each day, since I fell apart
I've did what I had to do
and if there was a reason, it was you
^ what is the meaning of these lyrics?
One for each day, since I fell apart
I've did what I had to do
and if there was a reason, it was you
^ what is the meaning of these lyrics?
let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah..
it's growing up just like me
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Washington DC 2006
Lollapalooza 2007
it's growing up just like me
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Washington DC 2006
Lollapalooza 2007
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telling other ppl how he has self abused because of traumas caused by them..
Two interpretations I have garnered regarding the scratches:
1- scratches on arms represent failed suicide attempts. Dude "fell apart" and since then, has been trying to kill himself...maybe he goes so far as to make the incision but then bandages it up...leaving scratches on his arms.
2 - (more likely) This song is part of the mamasan trilogy. And in it this person is awaiting sentencing or punishment (be it self-imposed or legally imposed) for abusing women (possibly hookers) and killing them. The scratches represent the girls fighting back while he killed them.
As for the "I did what ....it was you":
This is the pre-chorus of the song. What does it mean? Could be a few different things. Here is my interpretation:
- the narrator has a tortured soul for commiting past misdeeds and is laying the blame in his head
- More specifically, the boy sexually abused by his mother in "Alive" grows up and is so messed up that he kills a lot of women in "Once" and in "Footsteps" he is telling his mother he did what he had to do to satisfy the inner demons she created, but she is the reason it all happened.
"No one cares about climbing stairs, Nothing at the top no more." Chris Cornell
Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
The imagery in that quotation is disturbing. I get the feeling that the narrator is engaged in self-mutilation. It's as if he is using his arms as a fleshy calendar, chronicling his suffering. Perhaps he is redirecting the anger that he feels over a failed relationship to his arms, releasing years of futility and frustration upon himself in a desperate act of self-destruction.
I know that some students engage in “cutting” to take their minds off of their painful lives.
I wonder who she was, and I wonder what she did to make him do want to hurt himself?
Mr. Bruno
they symbolises his pain and the bad cicrcumstances he is put through.
but he stands them because of his big love