Songwriters: Holman, Justin; Gilmore, Don; Cox, Nathaniel Joseph; Davis, Robert Wayne; Thiemann, Robert Bruce
Words pierce through the air
They make you wear to get you in a straight jacket label
With your face turned to the wall
This place penetrates when
Everyone that ever tries to tellyou that you're not the same
Watches you fall
You're pushing on the wall on the wall inside
You're pushing outside to find the reasons
You run from this place when they label you
Reasons to run from this place when they label you
(Alt: You're pushing on the wall inside)
Reasons to run from this place when they label you
(Alt: You're pushing on the wall inside)
You're inside thinking of everyone you ever knew
When they put you outside the separating wall
I can see you standing there waiting for the answer
To the reason no one operates the way you do
You're point of view
You're pushing on the wall on the wall inside
You're pushing outside to find the reasons
You run from this place when they label you
Reasons to run from this place when they label you
(Alt: You're pushing on the wall inside)
Reasons to run from this place when they label you
(Alt: You're pushing on the wall inside)
Everyday that they can't see
Afraid of what they might find
In the way of what they see
Afraid of what's inside of you
Reasons to run from this place when they label you
(Alt: You're pushing on the wall inside)
Reasons to run from this place when they label you
(Alt: You're pushing on the wall inside)
I think this song is about being an artist stuck in a small town. Whatever your art may be: book writing, music, painting... if, after high school, you end up having to live in the place you grew up, everybody expects so much from you. Then years go by and those folks see you running in the same circles, possibly getting nowhere with your art, or maybe just making slow progress, as is usually the case. There comes a point where people mentally give up on you... LABEL you a loser, a dreamer, or something worse. It makes you want to RUN FROM THIS PLACE. It makes you feel like you're in a rubber room, with everyone looking in at the poor failure.
Here's some advice for struggling and upcoming artists of any kind: Don't let those LABELS bring you down. The average person doesn't have the strength and determination to chase their dreams, to break out of their little cycles and become something great. Those LABELS are meant to hold you down, mentally, so they can see you out and about and say to themselves, "Well, he's still here... and he's not doing better than me." Don't succomb. It's BS.
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