I think this song is about the spiritual battle over our souls and within ourselves. The person in the song was given a glimpse into what it feels to look at themselves from a death point of view (looking in your window...dressing in your clothes) and how they could have lived a better life. Once they realize they have been living a lie there is a compelling feeling to change.
Reminds me of a relationship that starts out amazing. You feel happy, inspired and like the world is your oyster. You're both rushing ahead trying to make each day more beautiful than the last but suddenly, one of you falls into regular habits, into a rut, just existing, always placing their interest in trivial, futile pursuits, you try to live like them for a bit just to stay with them but realise that their lifestyle makes you dead inside and you realise that life wants to lead you to big and wonderful things...... but they won't come with you.
I am a complete atheist, I've never believed in God or spirituality. But even knowing the "true" inspiration for a lot of Flyleaf songs I still relate to them heavily for my own reasons. I don't think you need to believe in God to understand the messages, a lot of the time people find these meanings through God and their religion but even though I don't believe, I still feel impacted by the lyrics. Maybe it's not exactly the same, but it still helps me and that's what I think is incredible about music as a medium. People that don't see eye to eye can still be affected positively by the same messages.
13 years later, Thank you for the upload. Been listening to this song I didn't know existed until this morning. 30 times in loop-play and still listening. very touching song.
i love Lacey Moseley, her voice in all her songs sounds like her soul is crying out, it's so strange and beautiful. wonderful song though, i've felt this way so many times, i can relate to all her songs, God bless this amazing band and L. M
I just want to through out what I think of the song. :) I think the band was conveying the message of lost love, and that one person was never alive, and always just ran through the motions of life. So the person that died had to feel the pain of not actually being able to love, but still falling for something they couldn't have. But in the end the dead one fell apart but left the living person to feel the same pain.
It's about people who know about God, but never truly cared about or accepted Him. The person described in the song seems to have lost themselves and finally realized that God is their only hope. The part that says "Someone warned me of this hell, and I spit in his naive eye, and left him crying for my soul he said would die" seems to refer to how Christians warn and tell others about God's love, but yet non-Christians just laugh or scoff at them. In Romans 8:13 it says; "For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live." The guy who warns her is scoffed at, so he feels compassion for her because he knows if she continues to live for her flesh, she WILL die.
I feel absolutely every song from this album. Listening to it now, i realize what God was doing through these wonderful, talented people. So sad i didnt get to see them perform before Lacey left. =(
I love this song for its beauty, and how this question popped into my mind: to end up confused by the need to separate a person into the private and secular, or the multiple "identities" one employs to fit in with different groups. To put on the clothes of someone else and pretend that it's ok to be someone else at different times, makes a person as if "dead", not knowing what to live for. Well, beautiful lyrics anyhow!
I didn’t know this is Christianity based song. At face value it seemed to be a song about someone who hasn’t been living as themself, someone who has been living in what seems to be everyone else’s reality while not engaging in it themself. Rather, they’ve been playing along. Regardless of the artist’s meaning, songs can take on different meanings. And that’s what it makes me think and feel about.
during this song when she's like: in the hearts of the blind something you'll never find is a vision of light with the voice of the dead I'm *puts finger to my lips with a smirk* screaming
i sang this song in acoustic for my school talent show and had everyone crying i have no idea no why they cried they just i guess flyleaf has a affect on people
@Charms522 if you think about just the song title in general, you can tell its go on, compared to go wrong, because they have two completely different meanings. One meaning it succeded the other meaning she got "This close", but she couldn't go further.
The woman who wrote this said that the meaning of the song is You finding out something you believed completely was untrue and then you start to question everything you believe in.
this song is about the people who have never had god, the unsaved. And cant imagine there is a life beyond what they have, but they know there is something missing.."In the hearts of the blind something you'll never find is a vision of light" These ppl are lost. And when they first come to God they don't know how to take it, they just know they want it.."Looking in your window dressing in your clothes" They are apprehensive about the whole God thing.."not once in life have I been real but I've never been this close before"..but they like the way it feels its just basicly about the experience of finding God for the first time..the fears & emotions that come with it..and how realizing their is life beyond the simple empty life you've been living..Lacey does an amazing job depicting in in this song.. she makes it so perfect this song really makes you feel "this close" you can how the person in the song has seen god from a distance but not really had the full experience.. and if you think about it the rest of the album has a similar theme..
She is right, but not in the way you think. It's the sudden awareness of the person who has lived without knowing God, living thinking everything they've known is all that there is...but always sensing somewhere inside that that's not right, this isn't all there is...and suddenly coming face to face with the reality of God.
That's exactly how I looked at the song. "I don't know who I am anymore-Not once in life have I been real, but I never felt this close before" Shes been faking who she is because she wants to fit in. "I've been looking through your window-I've been dressing in your clothes" Shes observing how these different people act and dress so she can be accepted not as herself, but her persona. "I've been watching you-Watching dead; Long enough to know I cant go on" She cant pretend anymore or she'll snap.
this song is about how as sinners... we are all dead. and when we come to God we become real. All laceys songs are about God and faith. everysingle one of them. lacey has brought me back into being a christian and by her songs...she has saved my life
I'm sick of going on every single flyleaf song ever and seeing people talk about religion and what the songs are about. Stop worrying about it first of all, flyleaf is a christian rock band but they don't care if their fans are an atheist, christian, catholic, Jewish, Muslim, or whatever. They care about their fans and don't give a crap. Musicians put out music so that people can listen to them, not so everybody could make such a big deal out of it. I'm 13 and i already know that's this world is messed up. But people shouldn't have to worry about this silly stuff and just come together. Everyone has their own point of view and I get that just here me out, just appreciate the music and live life. They put this out there so people could listen and fall in love with the song, not so people can try to get people to change their religion, that's their choice not yours.
Ladies and gentlemen, from the mouth of babes. Unfortunately, such words shall fall upon deaf ears and read by the blind. In truth humanity is made of a bunch of opinionated haters and those who come by these things only to give rise to debate and conflict. They relish in their mayhem, and continue to add oil to the fire. You are honest in your words, but honesty will never be as appreciated as it should be.
For the first time, I realize this song's true meaning. It's about a person living without hope, coming to the realization of God, realizing that they can no longer live the meaningless life of their peers. This is awesome! Praise God!
what I think the meaning to this song is that we/people don't know who we are and we try and look to God and once we realize that he there we dont walk dead anymore and that we wont go to Hell thats just what this song means to me because Jesus saved the blind saved us all and he allowed us to live so we will repay him by living for him
LOL! Not cool man! I love the emotional meaning in this song... But I'll forgive you for misusing the lyrics only because I'll do it to you in the future =P And females do not stalk, we keep an eye on things to make sure that guys don't get into too much mischief. =P
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I think this song is about the spiritual battle over our souls and within ourselves. The person in the song was given a glimpse into what it feels to look at themselves from a death point of view (looking in your window...dressing in your clothes) and how they could have lived a better life. Once they realize they have been living a lie there is a compelling feeling to change.
Soaps By Virginia amen
This song is a metaphor for those who live in spiritual death and have just become aware that they can be truly alive.
I love that their songs are like this, open for interpretation, As an atheist it has a different meaning to me, but it's still pretty powerful. =)
Reminds me of a relationship that starts out amazing. You feel happy, inspired and like the world is your oyster. You're both rushing ahead trying to make each day more beautiful than the last but suddenly, one of you falls into regular habits, into a rut, just existing, always placing their interest in trivial, futile pursuits, you try to live like them for a bit just to stay with them but realise that their lifestyle makes you dead inside and you realise that life wants to lead you to big and wonderful things...... but they won't come with you.
I am a complete atheist, I've never believed in God or spirituality. But even knowing the "true" inspiration for a lot of Flyleaf songs I still relate to them heavily for my own reasons. I don't think you need to believe in God to understand the messages, a lot of the time people find these meanings through God and their religion but even though I don't believe, I still feel impacted by the lyrics. Maybe it's not exactly the same, but it still helps me and that's what I think is incredible about music as a medium. People that don't see eye to eye can still be affected positively by the same messages.
13 years later, Thank you for the upload. Been listening to this song I didn't know existed until this morning. 30 times in loop-play and still listening. very touching song.
This is just the most emotionally impactful song I’ve ever heard when paying attention to the lyrics.
This song helped me get diagnosed with bpd when I was 16. I couldn't describe in words how I felt but this song expressed it
No matter how many years go by this will always be my favorite band.
I can honestly say that Flyleaf has made this 14 year old fall more in love with Jesus.❤️
That's the coolest thing I've read in a while 😊➕
#juke4jesus
never gets old :)
reminds me of borderline personality disorder, with the not knowing who you are.
i love Lacey Moseley, her voice in all her songs sounds like her soul is crying out, it's so strange and beautiful. wonderful song though, i've felt this way so many times, i can relate to all her songs, God bless this amazing band and L. M
Beautiful song!!! Flyleaf forever!
I love how she whispers the word screaming.
Such a great band.
Couldnt have said it better myself :)
One of the best
I just want to through out what I think of the song. :) I think the band was conveying the message of lost love, and that one person was never alive, and always just ran through the motions of life. So the person that died had to feel the pain of not actually being able to love, but still falling for something they couldn't have. But in the end the dead one fell apart but left the living person to feel the same pain.
Rock music does not glorify God
+Zion and the World A Song never has only one meaning, at least if it's a good song.
It's about people who know about God, but never truly cared about or accepted Him. The person described in the song seems to have lost themselves and finally realized that God is their only hope. The part that says "Someone warned me of this hell, and I spit in his naive eye, and left him crying for my soul he said would die" seems to refer to how Christians warn and tell others about God's love, but yet non-Christians just laugh or scoff at them. In Romans 8:13 it says; "For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live."
The guy who warns her is scoffed at, so he feels compassion for her because he knows if she continues to live for her flesh, she WILL die.
Best Metalcore Ever
I feel absolutely every song from this album. Listening to it now, i realize what God was doing through these wonderful, talented people. So sad i didnt get to see them perform before Lacey left. =(
+Victoria Ruiz For sure my favorite album. :) Her songs helped me through some really hard times in my life.
I love this song so much the lyrics discribe how I feel completly.. I could listen to this all day..
It's good to know you're still with us :) Keep your chin up
I love this song for its beauty, and how this question popped into my mind: to end up confused by the need to separate a person into the private and secular, or the multiple "identities" one employs to fit in with different groups. To put on the clothes of someone else and pretend that it's ok to be someone else at different times, makes a person as if "dead", not knowing what to live for.
Well, beautiful lyrics anyhow!
one of my favorite songs
...I'm speachless
im in love with this song CANT HELP GETTING IT OUT OF MY HEAD
the part where she whispers gives me goose bumps
i really like this song . but every time i hear it all those memories comes to life that makes me cry XD
nice and easy
I didn’t know this is Christianity based song. At face value it seemed to be a song about someone who hasn’t been living as themself, someone who has been living in what seems to be everyone else’s reality while not engaging in it themself. Rather, they’ve been playing along.
Regardless of the artist’s meaning, songs can take on different meanings. And that’s what it makes me think and feel about.
I think it's a cry of help to God, how not every one can always find him even if they try, and how it's in every one no matter how hard it is to find.
during this song when she's like:
in the hearts of the blind something you'll never find is a vision of light with the voice of the dead I'm *puts finger to my lips with a smirk* screaming
flyleaf are epic.
i sang this song in acoustic for my school talent show and had everyone crying i have no idea no why they cried they just i guess flyleaf has a affect on people
@Charms522 if you think about just the song title in general, you can tell its go on, compared to go wrong, because they have two completely different meanings. One meaning it succeded the other meaning she got "This close", but she couldn't go further.
XD I thought of Aradia from Homestuck, i dunno, this song just fits her so well
Yes. In fact, she is the reason I am here.
The woman who wrote this said that the meaning of the song is
You finding out something you believed completely was untrue and then you start to question everything you believe in.
Not really
this song is about the people who have never had god, the unsaved. And cant imagine there is a life beyond what they have, but they know there is something missing.."In the hearts of the blind something you'll never find is a vision of light"
These ppl are lost. And when they first come to God they don't know how to take it, they just know they want it.."Looking in your window dressing in your clothes"
They are apprehensive about the whole God thing.."not once in life have I been real but I've never been this close before"..but they like the way it feels
its just basicly about the experience of finding God for the first time..the fears & emotions that come with it..and how realizing their is life beyond the simple empty life you've been living..Lacey does an amazing job depicting in in this song..
she makes it so perfect this song really makes you feel "this close" you can how the person in the song has seen god from a distance but not really had the full experience..
and if you think about it the rest of the album has a similar theme..
Betta Fiend Are you saying the person who wrote this is wrong?
No, I'm saying that u are
She is right, but not in the way you think. It's the sudden awareness of the person who has lived without knowing God, living thinking everything they've known is all that there is...but always sensing somewhere inside that that's not right, this isn't all there is...and suddenly coming face to face with the reality of God.
Omg, I totally forgot about this song by Flyleaf and how awesome it is
I can't stop listening to this.. :)
That's exactly how I looked at the song. "I don't know who I am anymore-Not once in life have I been real, but I never felt this close before" Shes been faking who she is because she wants to fit in. "I've been looking through your window-I've been dressing in your clothes" Shes observing how these different people act and dress so she can be accepted not as herself, but her persona. "I've been watching you-Watching dead; Long enough to know I cant go on" She cant pretend anymore or she'll snap.
This song is so beautiful
holy shiz!!! This is my new fav song!!!
Because of this song, i've been thinking who i really am... Wow! I love it ♫
I JUST LOVE THEM
this song is about how as sinners... we are all dead. and when we come to God we become real. All laceys songs are about God and faith. everysingle one of them. lacey has brought me back into being a christian and by her songs...she has saved my life
This song was made me question everything.
Even though this is like the best song ever ❤ it's still the creepiest.
The voice of the dead is beautiful..
i love flyleaf this song is amazing
It's already 2018 and still my favorite song by a female fronted band.
This songggg >>>>
I'm sick of going on every single flyleaf song ever and seeing people talk about religion and what the songs are about. Stop worrying about it first of all, flyleaf is a christian rock band but they don't care if their fans are an atheist, christian, catholic, Jewish, Muslim, or whatever. They care about their fans and don't give a crap. Musicians put out music so that people can listen to them, not so everybody could make such a big deal out of it. I'm 13 and i already know that's this world is messed up. But people shouldn't have to worry about this silly stuff and just come together. Everyone has their own point of view and I get that just here me out, just appreciate the music and live life. They put this out there so people could listen and fall in love with the song, not so people can try to get people to change their religion, that's their choice not yours.
Ladies and gentlemen, from the mouth of babes. Unfortunately, such words shall fall upon deaf ears and read by the blind. In truth humanity is made of a bunch of opinionated haters and those who come by these things only to give rise to debate and conflict. They relish in their mayhem, and continue to add oil to the fire. You are honest in your words, but honesty will never be as appreciated as it should be.
+LeagueOfLegendsRocks If you don't like it, don't read it. Always solves my problem.
Haha. songs have meaning and people want to know what it is
@@CDLatin just enjoy the songs
That's it,that's freaking it,I"M GOING TO GET A FLYLEAF CD!!!
i luv this song!
For the first time, I realize this song's true meaning. It's about a person living without hope, coming to the realization of God, realizing that they can no longer live the meaningless life of their peers. This is awesome! Praise God!
So, forever ago I bought Memento Mori, and this song came on.
My expression in the beginning: o.o
My expression at the end: 8U
my fav song from flyleaf
god
I LOVE ALL OF HER SONGS SHE ROCKZ!!!!!!!!!!!!1
i walked into hottopic on saturday and the first thing i saw was huge ass poster lacey from flyleaf and i was like
O.O ........ :DD
great song
I bought it at Hastings.It was on sale for like 13.99
if you are here 2021! your the goat
Whoa o.o
i feel this way some times.........
Yeah that's my favourite part :)
seems like every band I like has a stalker song
oh and my change of quarters pennies and dimes. lol
We Took Everything Life Could Give
that makes sense
Tate and Violet song:'D
I love Lacey so much
fantastik very god
IT'S FREAKING "ON"!!!
Dang Lacey :)
@xxhollydaniellexx I haven't bought the album...YET...but, when I first heard the song, that was my same reaction. :)
Looking in your window, dressing in your clothes, watching you...kind of makes her sound like a stalker :P
This is my favourite Flyleaf song. I imagine this is what some of my characters would say to me... The ones that are like me, anyway.
i have been looking in your window i have been dressing in your clothes fav line but it still sends chills down my spine!!!!
cool......
this song is epicly wonderful. I love the chorus. reminds me of my ex fiance oddly??? lol
what I think the meaning to this song is that we/people don't know who we are and we try and look to God and once we realize that he there we dont walk dead anymore and that we wont go to Hell thats just what this song means to me because Jesus saved the blind saved us all and he allowed us to live so we will repay him by living for him
yesssss
Moving
This song fits my life to a T. I feel like this is almost about someone's father.
@pineapplesRyummie yeah its defintly on
What is the meaning of this song? Someone please explain? (: Thanks in advance,
FLYLEAF !!!♥
That one person who disliked this will soon be pretending they still lived... hehehe...
explains how i feel..
I like how at 2:24 when she whispers the word "screaming"
I love this song, and I'm pretty sure its supposed 2 b about a stalker..COOL!
This is a very good Christian emo band love lacy songs
its
knowing that i cant go wrong, not on
I loved this song on the album!...I use to have the CD.... until someone broke into my car and stole it!!!!
My life feals like this... and then sometimes my life doesn't make sense...
Have you ever heard of Paramore? They have an album titled, "RIOT!"
yeah i noticed that i was like what?
2018?
loudest scream ever!
Flyleaf is so amazing. That one person who doesn't like them clearly has no taste in any kind of good music.
This song shoud be in some amine/manga series! Like deathnote or something similar to deathnote.
I'm athiest but damn Lacey has some great vocals an good messages
Is she a stalker D: Natascha Marie
LOL! Not cool man! I love the emotional meaning in this song... But I'll forgive you for misusing the lyrics only because I'll do it to you in the future =P
And females do not stalk, we keep an eye on things to make sure that guys don't get into too much mischief. =P
Natascha Marie Sounds like stalking to me ;)
Carl Bryant It's not stalking when it's keeping you out of trouble. =P
Natascha Marie But we are SUPPOSED to get into trouble!
Are you to togther?