Sunday, April 17, 2011

Kid Cudi: All Along Lyrics & My Interpretation

Hey, um um um um mm
Hey, um um um um mm

When the days, change, so does my attitude
I'm messy at home, I eat a lot of junk food
When the nights change, so do my nightmares too
I dream reality, is my dream

All along, all along, I guess I'm meant to be alone
All along, all along, I guess I'm meant to be alone, out there on my own, yea

When the weeks change, the rumors change too
I'm addicted to highs, would you like to know why?
When the months change, so do my love point of views
I don't want what I need, what I need hates me...
What i need hates me

I know all along, all along, i know I'm meant to be alone, its crazy
But all along, all along, i knew i was meant to be alone out there on my own yeah,

Suppose somehow the lion hearted failed to win, who will be the villain?
All the strangers voted for him
suppose somehow the lion hearted failed to smile, who would be the villain?
All the strangers voted for him

All along, all along, I guess I'm meant to be alone
all along, all along, I guess I'm meant to be alone, out there on my own, yea

Interpretation
All Along is a song that Kid Cudi made to express his feelings and behavior. This song is all about him and his independence. However, he does mention some others that are unknown like the lion hearted, the strangers, and the villain. He believes to have been sent to the world to survive on his own. He explains how change in the outside world changes him as well.
The song starts off with repetition that occurs along the verses. He is saying how everyday makes him feel even sadder and lonelier. Something happened to make him feel bad and everyday alone it gets worse. He is also saying that nights affect his hopes and dreams because in reality they do not exist. They are then known to him as nightmares.
The chorus has a literal meaning about that all the time he has been alone and he is therefore saying that is what he was meant to be. In one of them he mentions it being a crazy thing, but it is true to him.
He begins again with the repetition but expands it from days to weeks. "The rumors change too," is a phrase of what different information people hear about him as more and more days change. He likes the fact that he can consider some of them real to feel less lonely. I think months are like seasons and his love for the world is different every season because of the different holidays he spends alone.
After that he says a very powerful phrase about his needs and how they hate him. However, he says he does not want those needs, due to the fact that his needs hate him, which could be a girl.
The lion hearted is just a person/or a girl with a heart of a lion that will do anything to get what she wants, the villain is a good person but he is weaker because he does not have as many supporters as the lion hearted person. Represents himself as the villain and his loneliness reminds him of his loss.

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