AWOLNATION - Sail (T.C.W.U) · 2:22am Mar 20th, 2013
Hello everyone,
I think I'm kinda late for the "weekly update" sorry for that. Yeah, the title is about a song "Sail" by "Awolnation" eventhough the song is rather new, as well as the group, that song in particular gather lot of fame. But I'm not here to discuss the fame of the song or the group, I'm here because of the lyrics, specially on the "ADD"
What does it mean?
Attention Deficit Disorder or Alcohol & Drug Dependency?
In both cases I found something wich I can identify myself. Since born I was diagnosed with ADD with hiperactivity and by personal experience I can't say it's rather uncomfortable. As the song says "This is how I show my love, I made it on my mind because I blame it on my ADD" When I was a kid my family couldn't stand me due to the fact I was hiperactive and always wanted to be doing things when they didn't they, in some point, didn't liked me. Yet that was the way I told them I like them, by wanting to do things with them. Too bad they didn't understand it the same way.
Then the next two stanzas were the ones which made me think about alcohol & drug dependency:
"This is how an angel dies
I blame it on my own sick pride
I blame it on my A.D.D. baby"
"Maybe I should cry for help
Maybe I should kill myself
I blame it on my A.D.D. baby"
I think they explain for themselves, But in the second one "Maybe I should cry for help, maybe I should kill myself" in those two lines, in my case and own personal projection, I can reflect myself. Once I wrote this, I tried to commit suicide at a young age, yes, due to my ADD & Hiperactivity. I started thinking: "Why don't they like me, is it because who I am? Is it because my illness?" In consecuence I fell into a deep depression and then things lead to other things. But that's enough about me. Let's continue.
The last stanza:
"Maybe I'm a different breed
Maybe I'm not listening
So blame it on my A.D.D. baby "
Maybe the ones with ADD feel this way, not everyone, yet again, in my case I felt it. Maybe I was from a different breed and that I was never listening to what others wanted me to do. Whichever the answer is, whichever the true meaning for the song is only Aaron knows it and "Sail" will always be one of my favorite songs.
That's all for today.
