Story Behind The Song
This is the story of too many people, young and old, who have sacrficed their dreams for elusive security. A moment of extreme personal crisis, perhaps a fatal illness, leads to a search, even a secret one, for a life of meaning even as life slips away.
Song Description
A woman facing death questions life's meaning. In addition to being ill, she's caught in a job that is not self affirming and is life draining. Her writing provides the escape, and in her diary she dreams of winning out over fate, of living forever and being someone.
| Song Length |
4:08 |
Genre |
Rock - Alternative, Pop - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Moving, Poignant |
Subject |
Life, Life |
| Similar Artists |
Foo Fighters, The Byrds |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Alone with her secret things
She's got it all down in her diary
Side-by-side with her hopes and dreams
She's telling the tale of her worries
She wonders about survival
And the peace she can't find in the Bible
She wonders aloud does it all just fade?
Tuesday the 12th of May
She ran off to work in a hurry
Got caught in the morning rain
Felt grim until past 10:30
She wonders if this is worth it
40 hours a week in an office
She wonders aloud is it all just fate?
Out of the light she comes
Into the night she goes
She wants to be someone
Someone the whole world knows
Out of the light she comes
Into the night she goes
She writes that she's the one
Her fantasy life's the most
If this is her last day
What will she write in her diary?
Tuesday the 12th of May
How will she know not to worry?
Not to worry about survival
And the guilt she can't find in the Bible
How will she know when it all just fades?
Twilight to darkness yesterday
She lived in silence with her fate
Twilight to darkness yesterday
She traced the shadows of her lost faith