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>[There are some really good interpretations you guys made ^_^ Did any of you submit them to the contest? Imma have to put my interp. tommorrow cause Im not thinking straight at the moment. And I shall also have a new lyric up for discussion too <3]<

>[Well instead of beating a dead horse by adding my analysis I shall just move on to a new song. I am so glad to get such positive feedback on the thread ^_^ And sure we can do Here to Stay.....

New Lyrics!
Here To Stay
This time, taking it away
I've got a problem
With me getting in the way
Not by design
So I take my face and bash it into a mirror
I won't have to see the pain (pain, pain)

This state is elevating, as the hurt turns into hating
Anticipating all the ******** up feelings again

The hurt inside is fading
This shits gone way too far
All this time I've been waiting
Oh I cannot grieve anymore
For once inside awaking
I'm done, I'm not a whore
You've taken everything
and, Oh I cannot give anymore

My mind's done with this
Ok, I've got a question
Can I throw it all away?
Take back what's mine
So I take my time, guiding the blade down the line
Each cut closer to the vein (pain, pain

This state is elevating, as the hurt turns into hating
Anticipating all the ******** up feelings again

The hurt inside is fading
This shits gone way too far
All this time I've been waiting
Oh I cannot grieve anymore
For once inside awaking
I'm done, I'm not a whore
You've taken everything
and, Oh I cannot give anymore

I'm here to stay (bring it down)
I'm here to stay (bring it down)
I'm here to stay (bring it down)
I'm here to stay

Bring it down
Bring it down
Bring it down
Bring it down

Gonna break it down
Gonna break it down
Gonna break it down
Gonna break it down
Gonna break it down
Gonna break it down
Gonna break it down
GONNA BREAK IT!

This state is elevating, as the hurt turns into hating
Anticipating all the ******** up feelings again

The hurt inside is fading
This shits gone way too far
All this time I've been waiting
Oh I cannot grieve anymore
For once inside awaking
I'm done, I'm not a whore
You've taken everything
and, Oh I cannot give anymore

Give anymore
Give anymore
Give anymore
Give anymore]<

Well since you requested it here is my interpretation of Blind......

Ok well its not really an interpretation but rather what the song means to me. Blind is a very important song for me. Back when I was in high school I had a horrible problem with depression. There was a lot of messed up things in my life durring that time. This wasnt your everyday teenage angst, I actually had to get medically tested and put on medication because my levels of serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain were all messed up. Anyway, durring that time I would literally just lock myself in my room and try to escape into my own mind. My self esteem was so low, I hated myself, I hated everything around me, and I just couldnt deal. I was spiraling down a path of self destricution, falling into a habit of actually mutilating myself and eventually tying to commit suicide. "This place inside my mind, a place I like to hide." Durring this time I was trying to escape the world and hide within my own mind, only to find that things were just as scary inside as all the s**t I was trying to escape in my life. All the time I knew I had a problem. I could see that the things I was doing was wrong and only making things worse. I could see that it wasnt the answer, but I couldnt stop myself from doing it. It became an addiction, the outer pain was helping numb the inner pain. I saw myself spiraling. "I can see, I can see, Im going blind." I was so blinded durring this time in my life, and I knew it, I could see the destruction I was causing to myself and others, but I couldnt seem do anything about it. This song is special to me, I listened to it along durring all this and because it seemed to literally narrorate what I was going through.

yeah sorry, i've been really busy lately plus my internet computer crashed so i couldn't get on here crying

Unfortunately I've read what JD's said about HTS so i can add my own interpretation, althought i guess i could try and have a ponder when i get a moment...

I have a 2500 word Health Reform Commission propsal due on Friday and a 3000 thesis on racial dominance due at the SAME TIME.

It saddens me how I can't reply properly to this thread sad

My interpretation of Here To Stay:

This song for me has always been about repression, and attempting to overcome a problem before it turns into something worse and goes too far. It's also about letting go of a burden.

For me, this song is somewhat uplifting - it's like telling the world "******** this, I'm here to stay!" - nothing can kill me, I'm tired of all this but I'll see it through.

It ******** angers me that recently, especially after Head's departure, that reporters interpret this song literally - that's it about self-mutilation. That's simply bullshit. Jon's reference to "each cut closer to the vain, bleed bleed" is like bleeding out "bad blood" (like they did in medieval medicine). I take it to mean that before one is free from a bad situation, they have to be hurt first. As we bleed, we exorcise the demon. "Guiding the blade down the line"; slowly and deliberately we plan our actions, and wait till we see the light at the end of the tunnel.

"So I take my face, and bash it into a mirror - I won't have to see the pain" for me is a reference to emotions getting in the way ("with me getting in the way, not by design"). Expand a bit to the preceding line "not by design", I reckon refers to fear - it's not a deliberate action. Agh, hard to explain xD.

I said before, I when I first heard Here To Stay, I was uplifted. The first line alone was enough to make me stand up and yell to myself internally "get some ******** bollocks, pick yourself up and deal with it". Jon's reference to the mirror, I took, was alluding to the past; past hurts, fears and regrets. In order to get past that - you have to literally erase it and start anew - I had to do that alot, so "I won't have to see the pain".

Well... that's it for me now, sorry if none of that made any sense... I think I'm drunk again xD