Billy Talent: Fallen Leaves Meaning

Song Released: 2006

Fallen Leaves Lyrics

In a crooked little town, they were lost and never found
Fallen leaves, fallen leaves, fallen leaves... on the ground

I hitched a ride, until the coast
To leave behind, all of my ghosts
Searching for something, I couldn't find at...

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   anonymous

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   Mar 22nd 2011 !⃝

   I think this song is about a drug addiction...
   
   "Can�t get no job, can you spare a dime?
   Just one more hit, and I�ll be fine
   I swear to God, this�ll be my one last time!"
   
   
   The narrorator left his home or maybe was kicked out. He doesn't have a job and needs the cash to subdue his addiction. He is asking strangers for the money(since he doesn't have the job)
   
   The chorus explains that the person won't be able to escape this addiction and its going to kill him.
   
   
   I never once thought, I�d ever be caught!
   Staring at sidewalks, hiding my track marks!
   
   When you are addicted to drugs you can be extremely paranoid. He was basically planning every step before he took it but he was caught.
   
   His friends found out and confronted him
   
   "Run away before you drown, or the streets will beat you down"
   
   Saying you are burying your own grave..
   
   ... but he snapped back and so his friends abandoned him or he left them. (You can decide)
   
   I left my best friends, or did they just leave me?
   
   You could compare him to the leaf. The leaf is on the tree filled with life but eventually starts dying and falls away to the ground.

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   Alexpants

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   Jun 1st 2008 !⃝

   Facts behind "Fallen Leaves"
   
   In Downtown Vancouver, there are leaves imprinted in the cement underneath most of the new trees along all the sidewalks. I know that they are referring to those leaf imprints because, as someone mentioned previously, I heard them mention it on Much.
   
   And it's true. Main and Hastings is horrible. Pigeon Park is scary to drive past on the bus. During the day, it's like walking through a strange dead zone. The people walking around, aren't really there. It's sad.

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   anonymous

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   Jan 26th 2007 !⃝

   Okay,
   
   I can answer this, ** because I know !!! **
   
   Billy Talent is from BC Canada. They are singing about an area of Vancouver that is probably the most run down, drug infested area in North America.
   
   The area is located on the corner of Main St. and Hastings St. In Vancouver BC.
   
   There is a small patch of grass about 30ft x 30ft in the shape of a triangle. It is known as Pigeon Park. Every crack head and junkie in the city hangs out there.
   
   Here is a picture ->
   
   http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/Parks/info/planning/pigeonpark/index.htm
   
   It has been a problem for Vancouver for years, and the problem is only getting worse and no one seems to be able to get anything done.
   
   The part of the song referring to "Fallen Leaves" has a double meaning....
   
   1) It is a metaphor for people who have "fallen from grace" and wind up in Pigeon Park half dead on drugs. And.....
   
   2) It describes, ironically, and artistic venture that Vancouver undertook in the same area of town. When you walk around the dead people in Pigeon Park, you can see Imprints of leaves stamped in to the cement in the sidewalk. It actually quite nice.
   
   Here's another picture ->
   
   http://www.zombiezodiac.com/rob/ped/vanc0804/PICT0004%20800x599.jpg
   
   So there you go. A real life explanation of Fallen leaves in Pigeon Park.
   
   And if you ever go there, you really should run away before you drown.....
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   Dec 8th 2007 !⃝

   The song is about Drug addiction.
   
   Although, Billy Talent is NOT from Vancouver. They're from Missisauga, Ontario, Canada.
5. anonymous

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   Aug 8th 2007 !⃝

   This song is about drug addictions in Vancouver, yes, but the band is NOT from BC, they are from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
6. anonymous

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   May 15th 2007 !⃝

   I agree with the pigeon park and heroin addicts, but Billy Talent isn't from BC, they're from Ontario, but that's all I got.
7. anonymous

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   Mar 16th 2007 !⃝

   It's about 2 of the band's friends who went to Vancouver for a better life, but got addicted to heroin and died because of their addiction.
   
   "Fallen leaves, Fallen leaves, Fallen leaves on the ground" refers to the two friends how they started off healthy at the top of the tree and began to fall when the got addicted, slowly dying just as leaves do as they fall to the ground. Then there friend eventually hit the ground died, just as leaves are when they reach the ground.
8. anonymous

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   Jan 16th 2007 !⃝

   yeah its definitely about drugs and stuff
   they said so themselves on much music

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
9. anonymous

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   Jan 10th 2007 !⃝

   this song was written about two of the bands friends who went to vancouver where there is a really bad heroin problem and they got hooked on heroin to

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