Learn English with In The End by Linkin Park. Fill in the blanks in the lyrics as you listen to the song.
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Song Meaning
Meaning 1
This song taps into a universal concern: hyper-awareness of time and the inculcated need to do something ‘constructive’ with it. Most of us spend most of our lives in a dilemma just trying to decide what course of action to take from the debilitating infinity of possibilities supposedly within our grasp. Remember that time didn’t exist for most people even 100 years ago, at least not in terms of the seconds ticking by with the ‘pendulum swinging’. Time is a modern invention, and along with the atomisation of human ‘society’ and the dehumanising effects of technology, accounts for the anxiety of the post-war generations. If you do the maths, the population has expanded massively while opportunities have only increased slightly, despite the big lie that there are opportunities for all if you just try hard enough. This song is about the realisation of this lie and the unquenchable anger that is directed towards the self in this individualistic age. This is the greatest achievement of the neo-liberal capitalist democracy – we are supposedly free and unbounded so when we fail we beat ourselves up instead of having social revolutions. For me, this song is the greatest emotional evocation of this dire mental situation and is best served up with a dose of early Manic Street Preachers for the intellectual and political side of things.
Meaning 2
Easy to Interpret: The guy is talking about how much time he has wasted on some girl he was probably with. And he mentions that he remembers all the times she fought with him and treated him as if he were her property. He even mentions that he put his trust in her and pushed too far into the relationship and in the end it didn’t even matter because she walked off from his life. He then mentions that she wouldn’t recognize him anymore after all the years they haven’t seen each other.
He even says: Not that you knew me back then, but it all comes back to me in the end.
Meaning: that the girl he was with barely knew him, even if they were together. and he’s starting to remember it all.
The point of this song: Don’t waste your time on someone you think you love, who doesn’t even care about you, you’re wasting too much time. And in the end, you will regret it.
That’s pretty much what I got from it. I can relate to this song ’cause I went through this years ago.
