I wonder if you'll notice
If they lock me up and throw away the key,
Try to be open minded,
You"ve got a lot to learn in the ways of me.
You always gotta say somethin,
I'm none of your concern but you wont listen at all.
Ya know I'd rather say nothing,
And just be proud of myself for tearing down these walls.
When you fall I'll be the only one who looks away.
When you call I'll be the first to tell you I can't stay.
It's all over I found a better way to help keep you from me,
I'm better off this way.
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/a/a_day_to_remember/better_off_this_way.html ]
You gotta keep this comin,
Tell it like you know it, but you don't know nothin.
Your call, we can settle this like gentlemen,
Or meet me out the back to end it all and start again.
My whole lifes spent waiting,
Ever since I can remember I've been anticipating your fall,
And God let it be a long one.
Can't let go of my grudge till I know your done.
When you fall I'll be the only one who looks away.
When you call I'll be the first to tell you I can't stay.
It's all over I found a better way to help keep you from me,
I'm better off this way.
You want it, you got it,
You've always been such a waste of time.
You want it, you got it,
A friend of yours is no friend of mine.
You want it, you got it,
When will you act your age?
You want it, you got it,
Your the reason things have to change.
Your the reason things have to change.
When you fall I'll be the only one who looks away.
When you call I'll be the first to tell you I can't stay.
It's all over I found a better way to help keep you from me,
I'm better off this way.
"Better Off This Way" is a song from the singer to either a past friend or relationship, basically saying that they are in a better place without them in their lives. We all have people in our past that we are grateful we have no contact with anymore.
The opening line, "I wonder if you'll notice, If they lock me up and throw away the key," and we see that the singer doubts that if he was taken away or left for good that he doesn't think that said person would notice. The next few lines go on to say how the friend needs to be open minded and to learn more about the singer. But the singer is of little importance to the friend and isn't there for the singer to watch his back. The last two lines state that the singer would rather just watch the relationship fall apart rather than try to fix it.
The chorus starts is just, "When you fall I'll be the only one who looks away. When you call I'll be the first to tell you I can't stay., It's all over I found a better way to help keep you from me, I'm better off this way." In a nutshell, it is saying how that if that friend or person comes crawling back to the friendship that the singer is not going to be there to help them whatsoever.
The next lines start with the singer telling the person to tell the story how it seems to him, but that it has no meaning because the friend doesn't know anything about what happened between them. Then my favorite part of the song, "Your call, we can settle this like gentlemen, Or meet me out the back to end it all and start again." He is just saying, Come at me bro! Lets fight and end this friendship and start fresh without each other. The next few lines go on and say that he is waiting for the day that he slips up and falls off his pedestal, and he hopes that he falls a long way down, back to the bottom where he started. He will not forgive his friend and holds a grudge until he falls.
We go into the chorus again, and after that, it goes into a repetitive lines saying "You want it, you got it," and in between lines it says things like "A friend of yours is no friend of mine," or "When will you act your age?" My favorite is when he says "Your the reason things have to change."
I think almost everyone of my blogs have been over an A Day To Remember song, but these songs are all relevant to ours lives and we can all relate in some way to these songs, even if you do not like this type of music.
