Lyrics / RUN UNTIL YOU FALL (Analysis)

For me this invokes a misquided attempt to woo a lover by not taking the leap to do something about that person.  I feel regret, like you don’t really know what you’re missing out on because you didn’t take the chance.  
We catch ourselves sometimes staring into empty space wondering why we didn’t just let ourselves go, if only for a moment.  The last two lines invoke that thought, that feeling of emptiness because of the unknown.  

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April 17, 2009

by ckbailey

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thanks for your review. while i wasn’t as i wrote it thinking of it as being addressed to a lover, you did get the overall gist of the lyric. congratulations!

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right off the bat, the poetry is very well worded. but instead of saying “you just dropped it” try something like “you dropped it, by choice, out into the open”. Good poem, very drescriptive, especially about the sweet taste when she leaves. it is true though, is she willing to run until she falls.

Being totally honest – I don’t get this at all.
But, it’s in a good way.
While I don’t understand really what’s going on, I don’t know if I really want to.
Maybe it’s just me that doesn’t quite get it (I’m a little slow sometimes, haha) but I like the vibe that it gives…this kind of your-own-interpretation thing. I specifically like the last part:
“staring down that endless hall/will you run until you fall?”
That part is my favorite.
All in all, if it works as a song, awesome. I love it. :]

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April 06, 2009

by ckbailey

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thanks for your comments. don’t feel bad about not literally understanding this lyric. i have to admit that there are parts of this that i wouldn’t be able to explain to someone exactly what they “mean”. while there a sort of theme running thru it about paying attention & taking risks(or not), i was going for more of an overall vibe, as you put it, than any kind of narrative or message.
so, you see, you really DID get it.

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I really liked this. It made me think of when my kids were small and I would never stop them from running. I would encourage them to run until they fell…then they would learn. The part about who pulled the rug, was very good. Like opportunity taken, that is still worth the chance taken.

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April 17, 2009

by ckbailey

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thbaks for your review. as a parent myself(both now pretty much grown up), i like your take on “run until you fall” in the sense of a child falling in order to learn how its done. i was thinking of it more on the other end of the growth spectrum: of pushing yourself as hard as you can to break through barriers(internal as well as external)

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I too wish I could hear it with music – I’m interested in where the bridge lies and how it plays out.
I like the theme running through it of basically not giving up, no matter how out of control your life feels.
Most of the lyrics lend beautifully to a musical translation – you need a song that people can sing a long with I question the use of the word “igneous” because it’s not something most people can wrap their tounge around.
I think with music, unless you are a Steely Dan type of band, you need songs that speak to your audience and will be ingrained in their heads – after all emotionally affecting them and sticking with them is the goal. I think your lyrics can emotionally reach people, because we’ve all been there…but Igneous???I don’t think people can identify with or remember.

That one word trips me up.

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April 03, 2009

by ckbailey

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thanks for your review.
i have to admit the line you singled out was the one in the song i had doubts about at first. but it does work when sung & it expresses the idea of a veneer of civilization draped over a wild & chaotic natural world that i wanted in there.
hey, at some point SOMEBODY had to use “igneous” in a song. i might as well be the one.

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hi there,

well it does make a good song, very poetic and with alot of imaginery throuout the lyric…(but you also can create a song about anything, in any form etc.)so i wouldn’t listen to those non-believers either…..you have many good metaphors also…and i like the question in the end..wrapping the whole lyric up with the title…will you run until you fall?...nice job, jim

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April 03, 2009

by ckbailey

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thanks for your comments. i do disagree that you can “create a song…in any form”. unlike poetry, which can be pretty much whatever the writer makes it(for better or worse), for a song to work it has be singable & to work with the music on some level. i don’t accept someone talking free verse over music to actually be a “SONG”.

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