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Song Info
Genre
Charts
Peak #307
Peak in subgenre #32
Author
Vagenda
Rights
1995 Vagenda. All rights reserved
Uploaded
April 04, 2017
Track Files
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MP3 3.8 MB • 160 kbps • 3:20
Story behind the song
*WARNING*
If you would rather enjoy this piece of art and have it come to mean something truly unique to you, do not read the backstory. Just as the band “Aerosmith” once criticized the music video industry of robbing fans from having their own visions of imagery associated to a song and supplanting it with some “official” footage, so too can knowing a songs backstory potentially come to rob it of having some special place and meaning for you.
Or both can exist. It’s all really subjective. Proceed with understanding.
Thank you,
V
The Official Backstory
This is a song about Alissa.
We had a long on again, off again, on again, (and so on, etc.) relationship, and it seemed to come to a turn one Christmas where she confessed that she was no longer sure of who she was any longer. Citing being one way around her mother, another around this group of friends, another around that group of friends, and yet another around me.
Who is to say what is for the best, but us falling apart shattered me so completely I was never fully willing to trust again, and may never have had I not met Jade.
This was a song about my mind breaking down, written while this break down process was fresh in progress.
Lyrics
Farewell Sanity
© 1995 Vagenda. All rights reserved
I’m okay, I’m okay, anyway, sunny day, how ya doing?
I said that I’m doin’ fine!! Leave me alone, don’t pay no mind!!
It’s alright, I’ll calm down, it’s already to come down, yes it’s falling!
My walls are falling in on me!! No one to set me free!!
I don’t mind, I don’t mind, no I never, will I ever, – ever
Have a little self-esteem!! Only you know what I mean!!
I don’t mind, I don’t mind ’cause I’m dyin’, because of you, falling
Into my own isolation!! Farewell Sanity!!
I never wanted you to be happy
I never cared and I never tried
Alissa, if ya believe those two lines
Then, dear, you’ve been living in a lie
YOU KILL ME
I’m okay, I’m okay, anyway, sunny day, how ya doing?
I said that I’m doin’ fine!! Leave me alone, don’t pay no mind!!
It’s alright, I’ll calm down, it’s already to come down, yes it’s falling!
My walls are falling in on me!! No one to set me free!!
I don’t mind, I don’t mind, no I never, will I ever, – ever
Have a little self-esteem!! Only you know what I mean!!
I don’t mind, I don’t mind ’cause I’m dyin’, because of you, falling
Into my own isolation!! Farewell Sanity!!
I never wanted you to be happy
I never needed you to feel alive
I never felt like you were a part of me
And now my life is so real & alive
You never loved me, you just said you did
You never got confused or cried
We never tried to make each other happy
… and you know that all just said was a lie.
YOU KILL ME