Streetlight Manifesto: A Better Place, A Better Time Meaning

A Better Place, A Better Time Lyrics

Streetlight Manifesto Lyrics
"A Better Place, A Better Time"

So she wakes up
in time to break down
She left a note up on the dresser
and she's right on time
You don't know anything
right or wrong
I said I know
and she said so
I want...

1. anonymous

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   Dec 9th 2021 !⃝

   I think this song is really powerful. The singer respects the fact that Annie can make her own choices, and he doesn't try and take away her autonomy, but he also urges her to try and consider all aspects of her life, and live for herself, before she attempts to kill herself.
   
   He also makes it clear that while he will be really upset if she kills herself, ultimately the decision is hers and he'll respect her and her choices no matter what she does, rather than trying to just force her to live, which I honestly could have done with when I was actively going to kill myself.
   
   It's far more comforting than someone getting upset and trying to desperately trying to tell you that you're making the wrong decision. He knows what he wants her to do, and he wants her to truly think about her options, but in the end he accepts that what she does is her decision, no matter how much it might hurt him
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   Jan 30th 2019 !⃝

   But don't take your life because it's all that you've got you'd be better off just up and leaving if you don't think they will stop.
3. anonymous

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   Sep 16th 2014 !⃝

   This song is all about the struggles of not wanting to be alive. Toh Kay told everyone that is listening not to give up on life, or, for the so-called "She," that she shouldn't give up on life. It's also about the suffering of himself, having to go through the thought that she wants to kill herself as is. He wants to change how she looks at life, and he also wants to have the chance to make her realize that she has him. That he'd do anything to help her, to make her NOT want to kill herself. He doesn't want to "buy flowers for her grave," because that'd put him through more stress than buying her anything she had ever wanted.
   
   He is technically saying you only have one chance to be on Earth, so don't take that chance away, because you have so many years to find all of the good things you have in life; where you live, what qualities you have, what amazing life you can appreciate.

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