From First to Last: Note To Self Meaning

Note To Self Lyrics

Two roads... split off from here,
and my life goes running in opposite directions.
Exaggerating the barrier between who I am, and who I want to be.

I wanted to be that breath of fresh air,
When everything smelled so insincere.
But this...

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   anonymous

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   Feb 28th 2006 !⃝

   I think that this song is about him beeing the person that every one elts wants him to be and changing him self for them. He's getting so cought up in who he is pretending to be and forgetting who he really is and trying to remember. He seems to be so far from who he used to be and his mind is wondering into the person every one expects him to be

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   anonymous

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   Jan 29th 2006 !⃝

   This song is about being lost within your self and looking for what your life will turn into but not knowing whats ahead.. How the choices you make affect your life.

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   anonymous

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   Jan 30th 2006 !⃝

   this song could be about someone leaving him but I don't think it is. casuse look at where he says "I can feel my mind wandering again. Into where I don't know and will I ever get home?" and the whole "note to self I miss you terribly this is what we call a tragedy come back to me come back to me (to me)," makes me think he is talkin to himself and it's like he has lost who he was before(or his mind). Like being famous is making him turn into someone he doesn't even recognize. That also goes with the begining of the song where he says"two roads split off from here and my life is running in opposite directions exaggerating the barrier between who I am and who I want to be" he is tellin you that his life could turn into two different things and it is tearin him apart to choose and its makin him loose his mind. Well that's just my way of seein the song it's probably wrong though.
4. anonymous

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   Jun 7th 2009 !⃝

   i think the song is about how he learned that he was adopted and and began questioning what else might be a lie. more in him self that anything else.
5. anonymous

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   Sep 8th 2008 !⃝

   What I think that this songs about is Emily, Sonny's girlfriend. She killed herself and obviously sonny misses her terribly. Also now that she's gone and he's alone he doesn't know what his life will turn into with her helping him steer him. Also that's part of the reason he is now off doing his own music. To try to turn his life around.
6. anonymous

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   Jul 4th 2008 !⃝

   Note to self. He's sending himself a note. I agree with whoever said he is missing his old self. He's writing this to himself not to someone who left him or died or whatever.
7. anonymous

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   Aug 30th 2007 !⃝

   It's about a mental disorder more than likely schizophrenia.

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

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   Aug 20th 2007 !⃝

   I went to a from first to last concert and sonny was talking about the song before they played it. He was basically saying that the song is about feeling like your lost and finding yourself.being who you want to be, not who other people tell you to be.very inspiring!
9. anonymous

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   Mar 25th 2007 !⃝

   It's about a friend of Sonny's
   
   He was gay and had feelings for Sonny but Sonny Didn't want people talking so He rejected the boy infront of their Whole school...The the boy tried to kill himself...
10. metalman536

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    Jan 27th 2007 !⃝

    i don't really get the video, though.
11. metalman536

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    Dec 18th 2006 !⃝

    yeah, I tottaly aggre that the song is about someone being who he isnt. and gettin confused on who he really is and who people want him to be. That makes a lot of sence, because look at the first couple of lines..."tworoads... Split off from here,
    and my life goes running in opposite directions.
    Exaggerating the barrier between who I am, and who I want to be". now that makes sense to me.
12. anonymous

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    Nov 15th 2006 !⃝

    I find it funny how everyone thinks that all of these songs have something to do with sonny moore as a person..
    When he had basically nothing to do with the writing process of dear diary.
13. metalman536

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    Sep 1st 2006 !⃝

    You know, I'm not aware of what this song is about. It's a really good song though.
14. anonymous

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    Aug 16th 2006 !⃝

    ...Sonny didn't even write the song. Therefore it's not about him. Jeez.
15. anonymous

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    May 29th 2006 !⃝

    This song is not about Sonny Moore missing a girlfriend, dumbass. It's about him saying that he doesn't know who he is anymore after he got famous. He misses who he used to be.

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
16. aquatickiss

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    Apr 25th 2006 !⃝

    I know everyone is saying that it isn't about someone leaving him but I think that its a mix of both that when someone left him he wanted to change himself to who he wants to be or who that person wanted him to be but in the end he gets lost in trying t o find himself and relises that he had lost a part of himself in doing this so I guess the note to self part means both he misses the person but since its to himself he's wondering if it was worth changing himself for
    -sam
17. anonymous

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    Apr 18th 2006 !⃝

    meh.
    It's simple. This song is about him not knowing who he is. and wanting two differnt things. "and my life goes running in opposite directions, exhadurating who I am and who I want to be." it means that he isn't what he wants to be, and he doesn't know what to do about it.well, that's what it means to me.
18. plasticcup_politics

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    Apr 10th 2006 !⃝

    *applause* I agree with everyone who said this song was about losing yourself or wanting to be the person you used to be. Whoever thinks it to do with someone else like a girlfriend really wasn't listening- how many times do they mention me,I?

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