The Fray: You Found Me Meaning
Song Released: 2008
You Found Me Lyrics
On the corner of First and Amistad
Where the west
Was all but won
All alone
Smoking his last cigarette
I said, Where you been?
He said, Ask anything.
Where were you
When everything was falling apart?
All my days
Were...
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#1 top rated interpretation:to me, this song talks about how God works in mysterious ways, ways that don't make sense to us as humans leaving us questioning God's abilities. This is a very hoest song, NOT an offensive song as to many people are taking it as. I think everyone has at least once in their lives have questioning God's whereabouts and His hand in the world. However, having said that, if you listen to the song, you notice that God did find him but it wasn't in his timing, on his plan. I think this song reminds us that we, as humans, think that because there is a God of love in this world and everything should be going all tick-a-tee-boo. that's just not the case. We'll struggle, we'll fall, we'll cry, we'll fight, and we'll question, but God always finds us, picks us up and will always accept us with open and loving arms.
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#2 top rated interpretation:I think the song is about a man who lost someone extremely important in his life, someone that knew him inside and out. And now that she is gone, he feels helpless and he calls out to God for years. He begs and pleads with God to help him. But no answer from God ever comes. He starts to lose his faith, in God and in everything around him. He loses faith in himself, his life. Everything falls apart from there. And he commits suicide. He does it at the corner of First and Amistad. And that's where he meets God. And that's when he says to God, "where were you?" and God says "ask anything". He goes on and on, asking God where he was during the hardest and most trying times of his life. Where was He when the man needed him? "Just a little late" shows that God was too late. Too late to help him. The man is angry at God for taking "all he wanted", meaning the woman that he lost (maybe a girlfriend, mother, etc.). This is a sad and emotional song, regardless if I am right about the lyrics. I just interpret the song like that. But it's a great song that I think a lot of people can relate to at times.
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#3 top rated interpretation:Here’s what Isaac had to say on their website about the song:
“You Found Me is a tough song for me. It's about the disappointment, the heart ache, the let down that comes with life. Sometimes you’re let down, sometimes you’re the one who lets someone else down. It gets hard to know who you can trust, who you can count on. This song came out of a tough time, and I’m still right in the thick of it. There’s some difficult circumstances my family and friends have been going through over the past year or so and can be overwhelming. It wears on me. It demands so much of my faith to keep believing, keep hoping in the unseen. Sometimes the tunnel has a light at the end, but usually they just look black as night. This song is about that feeling, and the hope that I still have, buried deep in my chest.” -
I feel like this song is a lot less about God than everyone thinks it is. It's about a man who committed suicide. When he finds God, it means he's died. But the questions he asks God are not really meant for God. They're meant for the people who weren't there for him when he needed them. They find his body dead "lying on the floor" and they were "just a little late". He just wishes they had thought to come check on him while he was alive. Or called. Or something. They had the power to save him, and they didn't.
I also don't think he lost his girlfriend. I think part of his suicidal ideation was that she'd leave him eventually. Hense why he says "know way to know how long she will be next to me" in the future tense. -
I hear this song as a sort of religious heartbreak--someone that believed God would save them, but He didn't. A dependancy and then a let down. I personally relate to it this way because I'm an LGBT Catholic that struggles a lot with the clash. It feels like God made me a lesbian and then went and made it "illegal", so I'm wondering why tf I should worship someone that's caused me this much pain and struggle. It also could be how God seems to wait until the last minute to carry out His miracles. Like He dangles you from a thread, drops you, and then catches you at the last minute and gets worshipped for it. He wouldn't need to give us miracles if He didn't let dangers happen in the first place.
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When I first listened to the song I thought the song was about a man who’s dad did him wrong, left him. “I found God ...
Smoking his last cigarette
I said where you been?
He said, ask anything” I thought this was a boy who saw his dad as a godly figure a role model, but that image vanished in time. “All my days
Spent by the telephone
That never rang
And all I needed was a call
That never came” he waited for his dad to come back and appogise but he never did. “Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you, where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me
In the end
Everyone ends up alone
Losing her” then this girl he falls for starts helping him out of his depression.Even though he feels like she came late , why couldn’t she have come when I needed someone . She still helped him “'ve been calling
For years and years and years and years
And you never left me no messages
You never send me no letters
You got some kind of nerve
Taking all I want” he’s waited for his dad for years but when he came back like before he took everything from him . But this time he took more , he ruined his relationship with that girl.
My perspective of this song changed a lot too , but I love how The Fray songs have so many different meanings . I can listen to the song with looking at it wiht a different perspective. -
i think the song is about him losing someone he loved when he thought that he could save her hence the "lying on the floor". it also could be that life is speeding up and losing people along the way is getting harder and harder to fight the emotions and keep himself from breaking down. but it is a very beautiful song i do love the fray and no matter what they are my #1 favorite band of all time <3 Isaac Edward Slade <3 Joseph Oliver King <3 David Michael Welsh <3 Benjamin David Wysocki
P.S. i saw you guys in indiana on the 11th of august <3 the fray always -
I think this song is partially about suicide, partially about doubting God. It's about a man who lost someone important to him, maybe a wife, and begged God for help. God never came, never answered his prayers, and never helped him when he needed it.
Also I think he's referring to friends and family never noticing his pain, "All I needed was a call."
So now, feeling abandoned by family, friends, and God, he decides to commit suicide on the corner of First in Amistad. He meets God, and asks where he was all this time, why he never bothered to help. He suggests that God has "Some nerve" for taking the women from him. And now the man is dead, and it's too late.
Personally I love this song, and even though some Christians are against it, I am Christian and it's one of my favorite songs. :) -
This song is about someone wanting to commit suicide and someone the person really loved and missed comes back to stop them. "Where were you, when everything was falling apart" means that you were needing them and they weren't there when you needed them the most and now you're just going to kill yourself and that's that and nothing can stop you.
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He Lost someone he really Loved his world and think alot of us feel this way but it's Gods timing not ours we obviously shouldn't question God but we can feel that way when losing someone God did find him and thats great Amen:)
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"I found God on the corner of First and Amistad, where the West was all but won"
These lyrics describe that God was on Earth and that the place where he was had been enveloped by the western idealism of survival of the fittest.
"All alone, smoking his last cigarette" This describes that God could see the problems going on in the area with the before mentioned idealism and had given up on trying to fix it.
"I said, 'Where you been?' He said, 'Ask anything.'" These lyrics show how the narrator is fed up with everyone giving vague answers when he asks why God hasn't helped him.
"Where were you when everything was fallin apart? And all my days were spent by the telephone that never rang and all I needed was a call that never came to the corner of First and Amistad." This section describes how the narrator continued to appeal to God for help, but never received an answer, so he begins to think that maybe his prayers are going nowhere.
"Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me. Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded. Why'd you have to wait? Where were you, where were you? Just a little late, you found me, you found me." This describes how people finally decide to help the narrator, but it is too late because the narrator has already given up.
"In the end, everyone ends up alone. Losing her, the only one who's ever known who I am, who I'm not, who I wanna be. No way to know how long she will be next to me." This verse is describing how the narrator has found a girl who really means a lot to him, but he has lost his trust in everyone, and can't even enjoy being with her because he is just waiting for her to turn around on him because that is what she is used to.
"Early morning, the city breaks. I've been calling for years and years and years and ya never left me no messages. Ya never sent me no letters. You got some kind of nerve, taking all I want." These lyrics show that the narrator has been reaching out to the people around him and being let down for a long time. He is angry because everyone takes everything from him. -
Anyone else think of this song as the perfect metaphorical description of the great Layne Staley's life, of Alice in Chains fame? Assuming you're aware of how he'd spent his final years, the few remaining years of what could be described as a slow suicide, what with the loss of the love of his life and all.. Truly heartbreaking. I imagine him singing to me.
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Read the frays explanation of the song,he
explains how he was feeling when he wrote
The song & his reasons y....bottom line if u
want to try n interpret the lyrics FINE,but let's
Leave it up to God to judge them!!!! -
Isaac said in an interview that this song is about one of his friends who was going through a really rough time in there lives and couldn't find they're way out.
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that is just a great song!
he starts by characterizing God as a human and brings him down to earth. he describes him on the floor smoking his last cigarette. actually thats not gods image, thats the guy's reflection. he was disappointed, lost and heartbroken thats just how he described god.
he starts calling him and shouting in his face blaming him for everything that happened to him because its easier than blaming himself, it eases he pain a little bit.
that song is mostly a cry for help, for forgiveness for love, for someone to love, for someone he used to have but lost.
that song represent a sad ending for a really nice love story.
once u think about it, it kind of represent the ending of all the love stories we live, that is sad! -
For me, this song is about suicide. The person is asking the people around him why they didn't do anything. Why they didn't stop him.
"I found God,
On the corner of First and Armistad,
Where the West,
Was all but won.
All alone,
Smokin his last cigarette,
I said 'Where you been?'
He said 'Ask anything."
Like other have said before, I think this line refers to the narrator committing suicide on the corner of First and Armistad. He meets God and ask him where he's been all this time.
"Where were you,
When everything was fallin apart?
All my days,
Were spent by the telephone,
That never rang,
And all I needed was a call,
That never came,
To the corner of First and Armistad."
Here I don't think the narrator is talking to God. I think he's talking to the people around him, who loved him. He's asking, where were you when I needed you? All he needed to stop himself from killing himself was a call. He needed someone to show that they cared. But that never happened. So he went ahead and killed himself.
"Lost and insecure,
You found me,
You found me,
Lying on the floor,
Surrounded,
Surrounded,
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you?
Where were you?
It's just a little late,
You found me,
You found me."
Here I think the narrator's family/friends find him after he's done the deed. Lying on the floor, probably surrounded by a crowd and EMTs since we're assuming First and Armistad is a public place. He asks where they were and why they waited to help him. It's too late for them to save him.
"But in the end,
Everyone ends up alone,
Losing her,
The only one whose ever know,
Who I am,
Who I'm not,
Who I want to be,
No way to know,
How long she will be next to me."
Here we discover the reason the narrator committed suicide. He's lost a woman very dear to him (probably his wife) to some kind of illness.I think the last two lines back up the idea that the woman died from a disease. When people are very sick, there's no way to tell how long they'll be there and you have to be thankful for every day.
(Chorus)
Same interpretation.
"Early morning,
The city breaks,
I’ve been calling,
For years and years and years and years,
And you never left me no messages.
You never sent me no letters.
You got some kind of nerve,
Taking all I want,"
Here the narrator is yelling at God. He's been looking for God's help for a long time but God never replied. He's saying that God has some nerve, taking his wife. I think he's also saying that God has nerve saying that he'll always be there and then he never shows up.
(Chorus)
Same interpretation.
So there's what I think it's about. :) -
I was reading about this song and someone said shame on the writers (the fray) for doubting God well then Jesus sinned by that logic. to me it's a song about his doubts of god and how hes trying to find god but he can't and when he finally does he expresses his doubts to God and doesn't understand why God was doing this to him and just how he can't take not knowing anymore and vents. This song has particular meaning to me because I've felt like this a lot and God found me
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I think it means that he's expecting someone but they aren't there when he really needs them, but when that person finds them it's already too late. I think when he says god he means he is just looking for help in the first part, i do not think the whole song is about god though.
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