Never Shout Never: Time Travel Meaning

Time Travel Lyrics

Nothing is real,
I know this cause I made a deal,
With the devil,
He told me I was just wasting my time on the moon.
So I flew to the sun,
Lost track of my soul on the run,
Suffering 12 degree burns,
I learned that the sun was no fun.
So...

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   Apr 25th 2013 !⃝

   This song is about Chris's life journey.
   
   Nothing is real
   I know this cause I made a deal
   With the devil
   He told me that I was just wasting my time on the moon
   -this part is about signing to a record label. Him making a deal with the devil is him signing with a major label. They convinced him that he was Wasting time just playing small shows and using MySpace.
   -
   So I flew to the sun
   Lost track of my soul on the run
   Suffering 12 degree burns
   I learned that the sun was no fun
   - He signs to the label and realizes he doesn't like it. On his journey to become "famous" he loses himself ad all he stood for in the past. What looked like a good idea at first turned out to hurt him and he didn't enjoy it.
   -
   Honestly, gravity sees me as a liability
   -this particular line really hit me home. I think this part is about people trying to make a good image out of him. They wanted him to be perfect so he could sell. His management and people were the gravity trying to keep him so-called "grounded". If he messed up and stopped selling, they'd be held accountble.
   -
   So I held my breath
   Til my soul left my body for dead
   I ripped through the clouds
   To talk with the man in the sky
   -this part was hard to really understand. The metaphor is probably referring to something kept out of the public eye. I think it's him saying how he wanted to start over as a spirit (not saying he was necessarily suicidal) so he could ask a higher power how to resolve what's been going on.
   -
   I said
   "Take this for what it is
   I think you're a tad bit prejudice
   Against the ones like us that are searching for the answers"
   -now, he thinks the world is against him. His life is going amuck and he's frustrated that he can't find the answers he's been looking for.
   -
   He said
   "Kid you don't know shit
   You should go back home and live
   In that quiet little town you left behind"
   - I've heard many different interpretations of this, but I think this is Chris feeling like he's getting these signs that he should go back home to where his life seemed normal. He thinks he's talking to god but in actuality he's (like I touched upon up top) desperate to get some sort of answer
   -
   I am a fake
   A constant go-getter of fate
   I lost track of time
   I carried my mind on a plate
   I seasoned it well
   With acid and M.D.M.A.
   Then I howled at the moon
   Til the sun burnt out both of my eyes
   - this is about drugs and him getting really screwed up with them. This I think goes back to his teenage years. He talks about how he was never a cool kid but he also talks about partying. I think he had friends and was not the "loser" for lack of a better word, but he knew his place with those people wasn't the place he was supposed to be. He kept doing this though throughout his life. He wound up getting with people who got him into things he shouldn't have that were really bad. The line where he says he howled at the moon till the sun burnt out his eyes is a good example of this where he kept getting further and further from those innocent actions that were the moon until the sun came and the bad came as well. The drugs got worst, he did more harm to himself, but now he is an addict.
   -
   So I checked my pulse
   Standing there white as a ghost
   I lacked a complexion
   And stabbed my reflection 12 times
   So I held my breath
   Til my soul left my body for dead
   I ripped through the clouds
   To talk with the man in the sky
   - he can't believe this happened to him. He has an epiphany, realizing the horrible things he's done and it scares him. He lost all he was and he hates himself now.
   The second part made more sense to me with this verse. After this epiphany he wants a change. He wants to start over
   -
   I don't know where to go
   I have lost control
   Oh, no
   
   I don't know what I've been told
   I will sell my soul
   To rock and roll
   - Like I said about the last part he does have this epiphany, but he asks the same question and gets the same answer. He then doesn't know where to go so he goes back to the only thing still pure in him, music. He realizes the answer he needs in music. He repeats these lines to drill it into his brain that he needs to get back to the music because that's the part of him that is left and what holds his soul.
   THE END.
   Sorry I switched from past to present tense so much and that it was so long.
   Hope this helps!

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