I would like to share a new lyrics and meaning blog with all of you. The song “Missing You” by ALL TIME LOW kind of describes a lot of what I have been feeling this year. I have had this song on my playlist for a while but now I take a whole new meaning on it. It brings out all that I have felt in the past and how much I can relate to this song.
1 I heard that you’ve been
Self-medicating in the quiet of your room,
Your sweet, suburban tomb.
And if you need a friend,
I’ll help you stitch up your wounds.I heard that you’ve been
Having some trouble finding your place in the world.
I know how much that hurts,
But if you need a friend
Then please just say the word…You’ve come this far,
You’re all cleaned up,
You’ve made a mess again,
There’s no more trying,
Time to sort yourself out…Hold on tight,
This ride is a wild one,
Make no mistake,
The day will come when you can’t cover up what you’ve done,
Now don’t lose your fight, kid,
It only takes a little push to pull on through,
With so much left to do;
You’ll be missing out, and we’ll be missing you.2 I heard that you’ve been
Having some trouble finding your place in the world.
I know how much that hurts,
And if you need a friend
Then please just say the word…You’ve come this far,
You’re all cleaned up,
You’ve made a mess again,
There’s no more trying,
Time to sort yourself out…Hold on tight,
This ride is a wild one,
Make no mistake,
The day will come when you can’t cover up what you’ve done,
Now don’t lose your fight, kid,
It only takes a little push to pull on through,
With so much left to do;
You’ll be missing out, and we’ll be missing you.bridge: Grit your teeth, pull your hair,
Paint the walls black and scream, “Fuck the world
‘Cause it’s my life, I’m gonna take it back,”
And never for a second blame yourself.Hold on tight,
This ride is a wild one,
Make no mistake,
The day will come when you can’t cover up what you’ve done,
(no, you can’t cover up)
(one, two, three, four!)Hold on tight,
This ride is a wild one (this ride is a wild one),
Make no mistake,
The day will come when you can’t cover up what you’ve done,
Now don’t lose your fight, kid (don’t lose your fight, kid),
It only takes a little push to pull on through (push to pull on through),
With so much left to do;
You’ll be missing out, and we’ll be missing you
The first verse comes out and says ‘I heard that you’ve been self medicating in the quiet of your room.” I did this. I still do sometime. It means coping on your own trying to make things better yourself and without help. I never wanted to be bothered. I have been trying to find out where my place in the world is. And after struggles and other hard ships I figured it out. But I need more than just a friend to stitch up my wounds. I need a tattoo artist to stitch up my wounds. That and yes the THAT is referring to self harming that “self medicating”. For other people it could be something else. But self harm is my vice. I came so far and was doing fine. Then I made a big mess and needed to sort myself out.
Sorting myself out has been the hardest task I’ve had to do the last year or so when I knew school was not going to work out. I made the mess by just lying my way through the whole entire situation. Which made a bigger mess. I self medicated by hurting myself. Sorting myself out gave me a whole bunch of options before all truths came out. I thought about ending my life. I thought about running away and never turning back. After truths came out, I began a new sort of figuring myself out. I needed a job. I found it. Im a Certified Nurses Assistant. Now my new founding career is leading me into a direction where I think I want to go to nursing school. But how am I going to pay for it? How will I be able to get through it? Am I really smart enough for it? Is nursing what I want to do just because I am working at a nursing home? This career that I am in has opened up new visions for me. Im trying to sort this all out. HELP!
The sorting my life out is what brings me to the lyrics in the bridge “Grit you teeth pull your hair paint the walls black and scream fuck the world cuz its my life Im gonna take it back and never for a second blame myself”. Life is a stressful situation. Growing up is a stressful situation. Trying to figure out who you want to be verses what you want to be when you grow up is a hard choice to make. I really don’t think anybody really knows what they want to do when they turn 18 and graduate high school. We are faced with the situations where you want to scream and when things do not go your way you really just want to say fuck it all. And it makes you either want to give up and quit or makes you more determined to dominate all and take charge and live up to what you want to do and not let anyone tell you otherwise. We are ready to face whatever comes our way.
And now the chorus.
Hold on tight,
This ride is a wild one,
Make no mistake,
The day will come when you can’t cover up what you’ve done,
Now don’t lose your fight, kid,
It only takes a little push to pull on through,
With so much left to do;
You’ll be missing out, and we’ll be missing you.
Life is a wild ride and we have no idea what is going to happen. I wish I could have held on tight to 18 and maybe I would have been on the better path then. I made enough mistakes where I couldn’t cover them up. I felt like I lost my fight, but I got a big push in a new direction and have pulled on through. I am only 20. There is so much left and so much more than I can achieve, conquer and fight for. I was close to missing out. I was close to being missed. But new changes helped save my life along with support to keep pushing me through.
And I want to put out there, if any band members of All Time Low see this post. Thank you for your music. Thank you for all your inspiration to help keep me going. And thank you for understanding how a lot of us in these situations feel.
Missing You by All Time Low
Elizabeth 10.12.14<3 