Oooh, I see. ( I wasn't around for some time, so I'm a wee bit outta the loop here, mind you.
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Yeah, I love the CD totally. It's a lot more mysterious then Be Not Nobody...
Her songs have so many possible meanings...
Oh, and my sister, my husband and me all think that Ben and me running away helped inspire her to write Who's To Say. (You know, she obvsiously knew if she ever signed on to her site... there was apparently that MALLORY IS MISSING!! thread bumped to top the whole while....)
Not to say that she called them up and asked for the whole story and background, but think of it how she wrote Annie. She knew a girl, Victoria, and she was inspired to write about it.
For example:
...shine so bright when you're around...
(how we felt but) they tell us slow, we're too young, you need to wait (which is what our parents continually told us no matter what the circumstances) Well speeds the key and they don't know who we are (becoming so sick of being told how to love and fall in love, feeding the fire to young, so called fast love) who's to say we're not good enough, who's to say that this is not our love (obvious ever present emotions)
mother don't tell me friends are the ones that I lose, cause they'd bleed before you (something I was told was that I need to keep my friends, mainly those who were female, anybody but Ben) sometimes family are the ones you choose, its too late now, I hold on to this life I've found (double meaning I think here, I choose Ben to be my family, the life that I've found and I'm not going to choose my old family over him, my new family)
whos to say we won't burn it out, whos to say we wont sink in doubt, whos to say we won't fade to grey, who are they anyway, they don't know (this whole part is about not being given the chance to fail, therefore not being given the chance to succeed, as well as dismissing the pain it causes to look positively ahead)
and you say we're too young but maybe your too old to remember (something SO true) and I try to pretend but I just feel when we're together (we were allowed to be together with parents and groups but were basically commanded to not feel anything) and if you don't believe me you never really knew us ("we're not too young, why don't you have that faith??") you never really knew (at all)
you and I packing up my room, we feel alright, (THIS DID HAPPEN... Ben and me went back to my house, went upstairs and threw my clothes into suitacases and garbage bags totally calm and ready to do what we were about to do) but we're not welcome (we felt nobody could accept us) soon we'll be driving (2month road trip here we come...) cause they don't know who we are. (feed the fire too much, it explodes)
whos to say we won't stay together, whos to say we're not getting stronger (now that we're gone we'll have our chance to be successful) whos to say I can't live without you (we'll show them now) who are they anyway, they don't know (and this is where their arrogance to accept us brought them)
....stand up boy, I shine so bright when you're around (we showed 'em, and no one can tear us apart anymore.)
Now, I know she didn't know that what she wrote was right on the nose, but I certainly believe that she got an idea or two for this song from what happened.
Anyone else think so?
