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TheZeppo91
The lyrics seem pretty straightforward to me. It's about everybody telling what or who he's supposed to be, but he doesn't aim to be anything other than himself in that moment. What part seems to be confusing to you?
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mclarge
Thanks for explaining! Genuinely can't tell you why it was so difficult for me to understand. Maybe it's because whenever i've heard it, One Tree Hill is about to rot my brain with some other terrible plot choice and so I just associate the lyric with it not making sense either. Curious! Could just be that it takes the better part of 5 seconds to sing it and I have the attention span of a fly. If these singer-songwriters aren't telling me their feelings in three syllables or less i'm on to thinking about if a crane needs another crane to build a crane then what builds the first crane.
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TheZeppo91
Not One Tree Hill rotting your brain! Lmao I'll admit I gave up on OTH myself after a few seasons. They put more time and effort into the soundtrack than the plotlines unfortunately. But yeah I understand completely about the fly like attention span. If a song doesn't grab me in its first 10 seconds I'm on to the next. But the key to understanding songs IMO is to listen to their verses. The chorus is usually a generalization. "I don't need to be anything other than a prison guard's son. I don't need to be anything other than a specialist's son." Those are his parents nudging him to be one thing or another. "I'm surrounded by impostors everywhere I turn. I'm surrounded by identity crisis everywhere I turn" Every one around doesn't know who they are because they just settled for whatever their parents or society told them they should be. Gavin's like fuck that, I'm gonna be me and that'll be enough. Lol glad I could help ya out!
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vidalog32
"Você já olhou para uma foto sua e viu um estranho no fundo? Te faz perguntar, quantos estranhos tem uma foto sua? Quantos momentos da vida dos outros nós fizemos parte? Ou se fomos parte da vida de alguém quando os sonhos dessa pessoa se tornaram realidade? Ou se estivemos lá, quando os sonhos delas morreram. Nós continuamos a tentar nos aproximar? Como se fossemos destinados a estar lá. Ou o tiro nos pegou de surpresa. Pense... podemos ser uma grande parte da vida de alguém... e nem saber." OTH
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RisenAgain
Always will be a really good Gavin DeGraw song. Don't know about this one tree hill nonsense. [3]
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sillismurffi
Always will be a really good Gavin DeGraw song. Don't know about this one tree hill nonsense. [2]
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