The Band Perry: If I Die Young Meaning

Song Released: 2010

If I Die Young Lyrics

If I die young, bury me in satin
Lay me down on a, bed of roses
Sink me in the river, at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song

Uh oh, uh oh

Lord make me a rainbow, I'll shine down on my mother
She'll know I'm safe with you...

1. anonymous

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   Jan 1st 2012 !⃝

   Ever heard the phrase "Good people die young" I think it means life doesn't last forever. . . especially now-a-days where teens are getting killed in car accidents and commiting suicide. Life is fragile and it can be taken away in the blink of an eye even at a young age.
2. anonymous

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   Nov 27th 2011 !⃝

   OMG this is my favorite song. It's beautifully haunting. A girl is explaining about how she wants to be properly dead and buried. This is also a love kind of song. It's like she never got to marry the man she loved. It's so sad, yet very beautiful.
3. anonymous

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   Oct 30th 2011 !⃝

   it means that you have to look at what you have and be thankful for it. this song changed my ways and affected alot of my thoughts this song was played at my bestfriends funeral and i am 13.
4. Lorie Yuhas Roach

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   Sep 1st 2011 !⃝

   As previous posts said, this can be interpreted in many ways. But the way I interpret it is that there is a young woman who is being taken advantage of by a man, but no one is listening. It has her scared that he may kill her, so she is requesting her wishes but when she requests to be sunk in the river, it makes me feel she doesn't have any self worth and is settling for the short time on earth that she has had.

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5. roz

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   Aug 28th 2011 !⃝

   This song is beautiful and sad at the same time, but reflective -trying to raise awareness. I agree this song describes how small or unimportant young people may view their lives and that nobody will notice them until they are gone. She believes her thoughts will be worth more after she's a goner and that people will realize what she was trying to say when she was alive. Perhaps a reason many young people take their own lives. She does though recognize the impact her death would have on others, especially her mother. She's describing how her mother, how any mother really, would feel losing a child at a young age.
6. anonymous

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   Aug 27th 2011 !⃝

   I think it's about the life and the shortness. You've always got enough time as long as you do the best of that moment or situation. When I'm listening to this Song it makes me think about life. At the end of the Song she sings: "Funny when you're dead how people start to listen." And this is truth. If you remerber the old artists.... you'll see they've all got famous after they died.
   Sad, but truth. :)
7. anonymous

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   Aug 21st 2011 !⃝

   I think the song is about her thinking about suicide, but doesn't go through with it. In the video she is laying lifeless in the boat but then all of a sudden she pops up and then they (the guys and herself) rejoyces at the bank of the water before they all run home. Her mother is waiting at the door and looks relieved and happy to see her when they all run up to her.
8. anonymous

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   Aug 12th 2011 !⃝

   I agree with many of the other points people made on here. But this is how I see the song: she is thinking of how since she's young, people don't listen to her. Like really, how many people would take a kids word over an adults word. People would much rather listen to an adult. And she is saying how if she died young people might look back at he life and start listening to what she said and realizing she was right (line: "funny when your dead how people start listenin"). Well, that's how I looked at it.
9. anonymous

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   Aug 7th 2011 !⃝

   My wife passed away at age 31 about 3 months ago and at her funeral everyone wore pink. Every time I hear this it reminds how everything we did together we had no regrets and that life can always be cut short. Great song!
10. anonymous

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    Jul 24th 2011 !⃝

    This song is basically the singer saying that a life can end at any moment, and everything for the people around them in and their life can change with their death. She is also saying that her life isn't as special as the lives of some others and that if she were to die at that moment, she would be content because she would have had her time on Earth and lived it well, and she would have no regrets and would have been happy with her life.
11. anonymous

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    Jul 23rd 2011 !⃝

    I believe that this song is describing how small or unimportant young people can sometimes see their lives as, or how they think that nobody will notice them until they are gone. The lyrics describing how her thoughts will be worth more after she's a goner, or it's funny how when you're dead people start listening define that feeling people have when the think that while they may not mean much to the world alive, their death will make a serious impact on the lives of those they care about.
12. anonymous

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    Jul 16th 2011 !⃝

    This song is not for the idiots that think its about losing your virginity. It's about if she dies young what she wants, and she loves Jesus.
13. anonymous

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    Jul 15th 2011 !⃝

    This song is for all the young folks out there who suffer from a life threatning disease or for those who are thinking about committing suicide.
14. anonymous

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    Jul 11th 2011 !⃝

    It's about abortion as well as young love.

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15. anonymous

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    Jul 7th 2011 !⃝

    I think that the song is about a girl who wants to lose her virginity before she dies. She knows that life is short, so she wants to "know the lovin of a man". Hence the verse: "so put on you best boys, and I'll wear my pearls", signifying that she wants to look beautiful when she loses her virginity. The verse "What I never did is done" signifies that the girl"s wish to lose her virginity was fulfilled, and she was then content to die.

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