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Steve Jobs said, "Your time is limited; don't waste it living someone else's life," and that is the heart and message of this song. We often get caught up in the motions of life and forget that our days on earth are numbered; even if one had a thousand years, they'd still come to an end. Many people tiptoe through life, hoping to make it safely to death, as one philosopher put it. We have people trapped in jobs they don't like, living lives they hate, and they feel like there is no way out of their misery; they have become so enslaved by society that they have forgotten about the dreams they once nurtured in their hearts when they had the liberty of mind to fantasize and explore the world of their imagination. The song is a reminder that each of us has a purpose to fulfill during our short stay on this side of eternity. It speaks of the fleeting nature of time, and challenges us in the Bridge to cut loose from the crowd, dare out into the unknown and chase the visions we hear calling out to us beyond.

The song is about a songwriter who faces the difficult task of reconciling the words and actions of his lover, which seem to be quite contradictory. He is gifted with the ability to write but, apparently, cannot sing too well. The girl can, but has never offered to try to sing any of his songs. She says she loves them when he sends her something he's written, but doesn't post them on her socials for others to see these works she's so proud of. She can also write quite well, but has only joined him to write one time, at his casual request. The Chorus lands the plane, describing the conflict that goes on within him, which is further expatiated in the Bridge when he says his mind is "under fire", a rather graphic picture of the fight inside. He knows she loves him, truly, but can't seem to understand why her actions tell a different story. It's a highlight of the plight some couples find themselves in, where there is a lot of love and other emotional accompaniments, but not as much support when it comes to the personal goals and struggles the individuals in the relationship are left to battle on their own.

The beauty industry is huge in today's society. Girls and women particularly are sucked deeply into it, investing in a lot of things to enhance their beauty from simple efforts like make-up to rather extreme ones like plastic surgery. But, how necessary are these things? Have we lost perspective? What really defines true beauty? The song addresses this and attempts to let those who feel uneasy about how they look know that they can be beautiful the way they are; one doesn't have to fit into the mold that society has created for them in order to find acceptance and happiness. This vice-like conformity has injured the esteems of many a victim, and keeps luring more and more of its unsuspecting customers into its trap every day, especially with the increasingly pervasive influence of media, both digital and social. There's more to beauty than the outward appearance, and we ought to focus more on that inner beauty that comes from the heart as the Bible admonishes in 1 Peter 3:3-4.

Love isn't fair is about exactly what the title says. Love doesn't care about you, or your feelings, it just exists in a weird realm of our brain. I mean can you touch love, can you show it to me in a picture, it's a feeling and I still know that sometimes it's misguided. There are certainly times when I know that I'm in a relationship and it was just for lust even though I thought it was love and vice versa. It's our nature to want love so badly, that we stay in these types of relationships much longer than we should. And even when you leave it, the feelings that you had don't go away. You want to reminisce, and keep going down that road of looking back and saying why didn't it work I did all, these nice things, didn't she appreciate it, what more could I have done? There are no real answers to these questions, they're just things that you have to accept in life.

This is also a relationship lyric. We've all stayed in something for way too long, and feel like there's a curse because we can't get out. They have our mind and body controlled by a seemingly special force. I know for me I've been in these relationships where I felt like I deserved to be in a bad relationship because I was so shitty to other people. I do believe in karma, so I guess that could be true. It's tough to move away from these types of relationships when your whole existence is broken, and you have no direction or hope.