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what is the real meaning behind Come Back?

Big Bank HankBig Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
edited November 2012 in The Porch
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
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  • Jeremys SpokenJeremys Spoken Posts: 7,578
    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.
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  • darthvedderdarthvedder Posts: 2,622
    Johnny Ramone.
  • morellomorello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    darthvedder wrote:
    Johnny Ramone.
    Yeah I've heard that as well.
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  • Big Bank HankBig Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    morello wrote:
    darthvedder wrote:
    Johnny Ramone.
    Yeah I've heard that as well.
    well if that's true that is a cool tribute
  • ShawshankShawshank Posts: 1,018
    It's supposed to have been written for Johnny's wife after he died...so the lyrics are from her perspective.
  • RedMosquito02RedMosquito02 Posts: 2,560
    darthvedder wrote:
    Johnny Ramone.
    This 8-)
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  • Tboz51Tboz51 Posts: 2,808
    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!!

    :mrgreen:
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  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    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!!

    :mrgreen:

    :lol: :thumbup:
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    LukinFan wrote:
    the south

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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,431
    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 handswhispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    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_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,300
    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: )
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  • I'm a TruckI'm a Truck Milwaukee Posts: 3,508
    LukinFan wrote:
    the south

    Double :lol:
  • rollingsrollings unknown Posts: 7,125
    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
  • majleap3majleap3 Posts: 208
    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!
  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    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.
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