Maybe someone who has had an abortion would look at it like 'Wow, that is what it is about! I dunno, I just think there isn't a specific meaning, just that each person is supposed to see the song as a way to view events in their life.
I think this song is about how everything happens for a reason and everyone makes mistakes, but as much as you want to go back and change it you can't, which is what's meant by "You can't jump the tracks we're like cars on a cable and lifes like an hourglass glued to the table", the cars on the cable bit is saying that you can only go forward and there's no going back and the hourglass glued to the table means that it will only go through once and you can't just turn it over and start again.
The first two verses are about two scenarios of people who have made mistakes but can't go back. The first is a girl who's rings a friend to go with her for support to get an abortion. She says "I don't love him, winter just wasnt my season", so she doesn't love the guy who she got pregnant to and isn't prepared to raise a child with him. The second verse is about someone who has got a problem with alcohol and is obviously not happy, and it kinda suggests that he may have made a mistake or something has gone wrong at some point and he is showing regret or remorse and instead of trying to move on he is dwelling on it, but he's the only person that can make himself let go, which is meant by "Wanna hold him.
Maybe I'll just sing about it. When she says "you're just as far in as you'll ever be out And these mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again, If you only try turning around" she's saying that even if you could go back and fix your mistakes you would just make them again because everything happens for a reason. Here in town you can tell he's been down for a while, But my God it's so beautiful when the boy smiles, Wanna hold him, maybe I'll just sing about it.
I have no interpretion of the song as it has me puzzled as to the meaning. It is a fantastic song and every time I hear it on the radio, it makes my day. I think everybody needs to just enjoy the song and not get carried away with figuring out the meaning of it all. Thank you Anna Nalick for a song that makes me feel good every time I hear it! Started relistening to my older music and this was on top of my list mostly because of this song. I think its about domestic abuse, and is written by the victim and not an actual friend.
She goes through stages in this song, first blaming herself, then the guys, then just realizing you need to move on. The first stanza tries to lead the listener to believe that its happening to someone else, a "friend of mine has this problem" kinda thing. Note the last word in each of the chorus lines starting "noone can find the rewind button First it's "girl" singular, herself.
Then it's "boys", plural perhaps meaning the multiple guys that have abused her. Then its "now", hopefully meaning that its time to move on. The accusing eyes are those from other members of a domestic abuse help group, whom she doesnt know and is uncertain of on her first day there.
Everything else is consistent with causes of and excuses for domestic abuse - namely alcoholism and perhaps PTSD of a veteran returning from war. Even the victims' feeling of thinking she can make things better by just holding him and loving him more is common. This is my first interpretation. Can't help it. So great a song.
They all live in a small town. Very close friends. The writer is usually awake and writing. She is a musician. True musicians write from the soul.
Songs for these are always diaries. Best friend knows she is awake and needs a friend to help her as we all do. Probably broke off an engagement. Winter is lonely and depressing. The breakup came gradually throughout the season starting in the fall as did his drinking. Small town social life many times many places is centered around church.
Everyone knows she broke his heart. People judge even more intensely in church for the fear of their own conviction is at hand. Judging the hypocrisy is usually the first reaction to being judge,however,this one is Blessed to persevere and Love is compassion when she realizes we all must carry one another's cross. We are all connected as individual members of one humanity.
May spring is fulfilled a man is born turns He chooses to fight. The fight is dailywar. He quit that day and he spoke the words to the poison itself and in his hand. Till then he had been living in drunkenness at least since fall the preceding year. He still suffers with grief but he is pulling through it. People still talk but he is starting to smile again. The writer is very close to him as well. Of course she wants to hold him but people in his state of condition need to be treated like they are living a normal life like everyone else.
So, she very wisely knows not to "jump the track" and lets time heal as time does. Can't change the past so cradle your head and catch your breath and march onward. The past leads to the light as you overcome the mistakes you made then and the future leads to the light as you continue to overcome the same mistakes. Same song same diary same hourglass same conversation same humanity same release of same breath and life continues as our breath of life is breathed back in.
I wrote songs, and still write songs, more for my own pleasure or my own sanity sometimes. She still keeps songwriting at the forefront though, writing personal songs but with a universal appeal. Her main goal is to create songs where people can take what they want from them. Nalick never wants people to feel as if she is telling them what to think. And each of those songs stem from that certain something in her life that she was experiencing — whether it was optimistic or something that scared her -and how she came out of it a better person.
When I read the comments above about the first verse that one does sound like an abortion clinic as well. Lemon Tree on August 31, General Comment yeah i agree with you, i think youve pretty much got it down. General Comment I really love this song. The lyrics are powerful and the tune is pretty catchy too. I really like the line "But my God it's so beautiful when the boy smiles Artists - A. Wreck of the Day [Bonus Tracks]. Rate These Lyrics. We do not have any tags for Breathe 2 A. Why not add your own?
Log in to add a tag. More Anna Nalick Lyrics. SongMeanings is a place for discussion and discovery. User does not exist. Incorrect Password. Remember Me. So I really just wanted to put something out so that people knew that I was still working: I was still writing. Initially it was just supposed to be me and a piano or a guitar, but so many wonderful musicians came forward wanting to play on it.
This album, At Now , was more specific. I knew what I wanted it to sound like. I knew how I wanted it to make people feel. I knew that it was a concept album, and I knew that I wanted it to inspire a fire in my chest at times and make me want to cry at times and make me finally bring out all the intensity at times. I felt responsible to do right by that. I had to find a center, and for me that meant never stopping writing.
I write songs in my head all day long. I see metaphors and poetry and symbolism in literally everything. I went back to college and studied creative writing at UCLA.
And then I studied acting, which was a wonderful experience. I met fantastic actors. I was in a play written by Scott Caan. So the first time I ever acted on stage, his dad, James Caan, was there, and James Franco came to my closing.
I was just suddenly around artists in a different field of the arts, and that was very inspiring. In , I started touring again. My bass player, who was also my tour manager, approached me after four years of not putting any music out and not touring, and he was the one that really gave me a hard nudge to go back to sharing my music with people.
So, I got back on the road in , and as it turned out, that year I also got a divorce from the person I had been with for 10 years. So at that time, everything was shifting.
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