10 Years: Wasteland Meaning
Wasteland Lyrics
Crouched over
You were not there
Living in fear
But signs were not really that scarce
Obvious tears
And I will not
Hide you through this
I want you to help
Please see
The bleeding heart perched on...
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#1 top rated interpretation:I'm friends with jesse hasek who wrote the songs and is the lead singer. When it comes to 10 years, what does the name 10 years actually mean? No one but the band themselves know the answer. What is the meaning to wasteland? No one knows the true meaning.
When jesse wrote the songs, he wanted to put emotion and feeling, he wanted whoever to hear it to let the song reflect on their lives. He was telling me a few weeks ago about a girl who had cancer, and she listen to that song and the song helped her through it and she told jesse about her interpretation and it was much different than anybody else's.
When I first heard this song I was trying to get over my friend bill who died in iraq. Dealing with the pain. I started listening to the song and it helped get through the suffering I was going through. Not wasteland alone but other songs on the autumn effect helped.
As I said, it's not a matter who's right about the meaning of the song, it's what does the song mean to you? That's what jesse and the guys wanted you to think about. -
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#2 top rated interpretation:Dude, you are wrong about what the song means, a video is a video, music videos have nothing to do with the song, look at the video to dali california from rhcp's, and holiday from green day.....they both have nothing to do with what the song's mean, the first two guys who talked about this song were right, drug addiction, need of help, but it all started with peer pressure, "change my attempt, good intentions". It all seems he doesn't want to be alone and needs help to get through, he may even be crying out to a girlfriend, a friend, but most likely a family member.. a parent.
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I'm with dude when he stated you're all a bunch of dumb mother fuckers.If you don't follow a particular band and don't know how their life situations have impacted them as artists, please don't spit your shit!
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He wrote the song about his brother and his addiction to heroin you dumb mother fuckers
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Heroin.
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I think this song is about unrequited love. Love can be like a drug especially when you've fallen for somebody who is just using you. Somebody who won't commit but won't let go. You want to tell them how you feel, but at the same time your afraid. So many questions running through your mind and so many failed attempts. You start to become a different person a "living wasteland" as you obsess over trying to make this dream a reality, but all it does is break you down emotionally.
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In my opinion? Heroin, 100%--both from the addict's point of view, alongside friends and family.
Most of the lyrics have been covered when concerning the song being bled out to reflect using heroin, trying to come off it, or being at the opposite end of watching someone wither away under its devastating grip.
"Heave the needle, hollow needle, piercing through another victim." Doesn't need much more explanation than that.
"Crouched over, you were not there, living in fear." He's seen someone overdose. I think this mingles with the lyrics, "Should I, could I?" for the simple fact that it speaks through both the addict and friends/family.
"SHOULD I even try to stop them anymore?"
Frustration, fear of losing someone close to you, and unbiased worry as to how much more of someone's inner demons you can take.
"COULD I really, honestly quit?
This disease often tells us we can't.
--Should I, could I?--
"This time you've tried all that you can, it's turning you red." Again, frustration.
Know this: until the addict's ready to stop, their is nothing ANYONE can say or do for them.
"Die, withdrawal."
There aren't any old heroin addicts out there. To me, these are the two end results if you were to ever play in heroin's web. Death, or cleaning up.
"Hiding cold sweats, quivering lips." Self explanatory: Signs of withdraw.
One I didn't see covered, however, that sold me on the whole heroin theory:
"Limbs tied, skin tight" is a heroin addict tying off before we shoot up.
With 90 days in, I chose life... -
In my opinion? Heroin, 100%--both from the addict's point of view, alongside friends and family.
Most of the lyrics have been covered when concerning the song being bled out to reflect using heroin, trying to come off it, or being at the opposite end of watching someone wither away under its devastating grip.
"Heave the needle, hollow needle, piercing through another victim." Doesn't need much more explanation than that.
"Crouched over, you were not there, living in fear." He's seen someone overdose. I think this mingles with the lyrics, "Should I, could I?" for the simple fact that it speaks through both the addict and friends/family.
"SHOULD I even try to stop them anymore?"
Frustration, fear of losing someone close to you, and unbiased worry as to how much more of someone's inner demons you can take.
"COULD I really, honestly quit?
This disease often tells us we can't.
--Should I, could I?--
"This time you've tried all that you can, it's turning you red." Again, frustration.
Know this: until the addict's ready to stop, their is nothing ANYONE can say or do for them.
"Die, withdrawal."
There aren't any old heroin addicts out there. To me, these are the two end results if you were to ever play in heroin's web. Death, or cleaning up.
"Hiding cold sweats, quivering lips." Self explanatory: Signs of withdraw.
"Heave the needle, hollow needle, piercing through another victim." Again, self explanatory.
One I didn't see covered, however, that sold me on the whole heroin theory:
"Limbs tight, skin tight" is a heroin addict tying off before we shoot up.
With 90 days in, I chose life... -
In my opinion? Heroin, 100%--both from the addict's point of view, alongside friends and family.
Most of the lyrics have been covered when concerning the song being bled out to reflect using heroin, trying to come off it, or being at the opposite end of watching someone wither away under its devastating grip.
"Heave the needle, hollow needle, piercing through another victim." Doesn't need much more explanation than that.
"Crouched over, you were not there, living in fear." He's seen someone overdose. I think this mingles with the lyrics, "Should I, could I?" for the simple fact that it speaks through both the addict and friends/family.
"SHOULD I even try to stop them anymore?"
Frustration, fear of losing someone close to you, and unbiased worry as to how much more of someone's inner demons you can take.
"COULD I really, honestly quit?
This disease often tells us we can't.
--Should I, could I?--
"This time you've tried all that you can, it's turning you red." Again, frustration.
Know this: until the addict's ready to stop, their is nothing ANYONE can say or do for them.
"Die, withdrawal."
There aren't any old heroin addicts out there. To me, these are the two end results if you were to ever play in heroin's web. Death, or cleaning up.
"Hiding cold sweats, quivering lips." Self explanatory: Signs of withdraw.
"Heave the needle, hollow needle, piercing through another victim." Again, self explanatory.
One I didn't see covered, however, that sold me on the whole heroin theory:
"Limbs tight, skin tight" is a heroin addict tying off before we shoot up.
With 90 days in, I chose life... -
It is about drugs.. Heave the silver hollow sliver refers to a needle. 'Hide in cold sweats, quivering' is about the withdrawals of not having the drug. 'Change my attempt, good intentions, should I, could I?' He wants to stop using the drug but it has such a power over him that he doesn't know if he can do it.
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The song is about human trafficking. Some of the original members were part of a Christian group that on occasion does security for humanitarian missions. While inside of Russia they stumbled upon some sex workers and decided to smuggle them out. Needless to say they were caught and rather than make the incident public that the Russians were basically allowing the sex trade in their nation they quietly deported them and banned them for 10 years.
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This song, to me, is from the point of view of a person sitting on the sideline watching a loved one, who has already given up on themselves, lose their life to drug addiction.
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OMG
Be simple! GENERALLY song is about human sufferings and OUR holier-than-thou attitude to them.
So, the sufferings may be caused by War, Drugs,Violence......everything. -
This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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Its about all the things that make you tick as an individual.. But the more literal meanings are addiction, cynicism and solitude. I agree that there are the two points of view, and its one person who cares and wants to help their friend that they have to watch pretty much dying. It tells (quite artistically) the art of human emotion and the depths that we can take our self-punishment and 'overthinking'. It shows the individual struggles of two characters that can represent almost any person in some way. ..Just my opinion so dont hate<3<3
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im pretty sure the song is about drugs... "Heave the silver hollow sliver
Piercing through another victim
Turn and tremble be judgmental
Ignorant to all the symbols" sounds like heroin or some other injected drug. "Heave the silver hollow sliver" is a needle. -
It's about frustration. "Doing all that you can, turning you red." That can apply to anything: war, drugs, relationships. It doesn't matter. When I first started hearing this song I thought about my ex-girlfriend and my good intentions and also my frustration. It's meant to be applicable, not allegorical.
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