Occupy Daily Prompt
I’m most likely a bad person to ask when it comes to song lyrics. I don’t normally go with what is ‘intended’. I go with that I feel, or what the words mean to me.
In the prompt one of the lyrics mentioned is “Hold on for one more day.” It is mentioned that maybe that’s silly, that the lyric doesn’t make much sense, or that in a given situation it’s bad advice.
But to me that lyric does make sense.
There is a movie called Jump Tomorrow, and in it there is a scene where one of the characters is going to kill himself. He is drunk, trying to drown out his sorrows. The woman he wanted to marry rejected him, and he is on the roof of a building, yelling and crying, and is going to jump from the roof so he no longer has to suffer.
The main character runs up to the roof and beings talking to the man, saying not to jump today. Wait until tomorrow. Jump tomorrow.
The song lyric, “Hold on for one more day,” reminds me of that phrase, that scene.
Tomorrow gives you 86,400 seconds where you can change things, or do things differently.
Don’t like where you’re at? Do something about it.
If you jump, if you let go, you don’t get that chance. You can’t do anything if you’re not here.
Admittedly this is all taken out of context, but words are subjective. What they mean depends on the state of mind you are in, the connotation you have associated with them, the other words and phrases around them.
Words are trains of thought, and not all of them are tied together. Songs especially are artistic creations, as much as any painting is. Just because we may not be able to see meaning behind the shapes, or receive the message intended, doesn’t mean that for the artist there isn’t some connection there.
Or maybe we make a connection when none was intended. It’s all subjective, it’s all art. We make it what we want.
Going to have to watch Jump Tomorrow. Thank you!
I loved the movie. Let me know what you think of it. : )