This is how I hear it...I am absolutely TOTALLY in LOVE with this song!!!


R O L L I N G

All my life
I’ve been selling the truth of a lifeless soul
All my life
I’ve been waiting for something to lead me home
You haven’t seen what I saw
Seventeen month a year when it rain(ed)

By all the power in me
I do what I have to now

Rolling out of my bed
I still can’t find the truth I’ve been searching for
Going back instead I shut my eyes
Dream who I can be once more
They see the trouble with me is
That I’m one who knows
But I just don’t understand
Rolling back my head
I think I’ve learned that I do wanna live
Again

All my friends
They been telling me you are the kindred soul
Oh my friends
If they only knew who I was before
But they haven’t been where I’ve been
Seventeen month a year

That’s such a lonely place
I don’t wanna live in fear

Rolling out of my bed
I still can’t find the truth I’ve been searching for
Going back instead I shut my eyes
Dream who I can be once more
They see the trouble with me is
That I’m one who knows
But I just don’t understand
Rolling back my head
I think I’ve learned that I do wanna live

So I try to go on
Still I’d like to go on in this world
Well that’s life we go on
Life we go on in this world

Rolling out of my bed
I still can’t find the truth I’ve been searching for
Going back instead I shut my eyes
Dream who I can be once more
And they see the trouble with me is
That I’m one who knows
But now I understand
Rolling back my head
I think I’ve learned that I do wanna live
Again

Still wanna live
Again

All my life
I’ve been telling the truth of a lifeless soul
All my life
Been waiting for something to lead me home

not only you, im in love with it since the first time i heard it!

Yep..this is MY favorite too!!

I love to listen to it..in my car...alone..when it's dark....WOW...what a SONG!!

yeah! and singing to it

My favy

I;m getting a little obsessive with this song.
It is by far the BEST song on this CD..imo.
I listen to it at least twice a day.

I would love to know the feelings Seal had when writing this song...what part of his life is it about....

One cloudy day I was driving down the highway as I was listening to this song, and suddenly there was an opening in the clouds and the sunrays beamed through. Wow. What a song. Even without paying attention to the lyrics, it is still very moving.

All my life I've been selling the truth of a lifeless soul - I think he is talking about how the world brainwashes us. We think we have beliefs, but they are really just imposed on us by our parents, friends, the media, etc. We repeat those beliefs as if they are ours, and we may even believe that they are. But one day, as we get older, we realize what has happened. Our eyes open, we wake up, and we start to doubt those beliefs or at least re-examine them.

All my life, I've been waiting for something to lead me home - I think he thought there were answers in life and it was just a matter of time before they came. But he finally realized that there are no answers, and that everyone is just muddling through and figuring it out as they go along. It is a difficult realization to accept.

You haven't seen what I saw, 17 months a year...when it rained - He went through a really hard time in his life that seemed to last forever, and it was that time that caused him to realize these things.

By all the power in me, I do what I have to now - It's a struggle to keep on going once you wake up to the real world, to keep doing all these distracting, annoying things that we have to do in life that keep us from being about to truly think and fully live, but he's doing it.

Rolling out of my bed I still can't find the truth I've been searching for - He's been looking outside of himself for meaning and answers, but they aren't there.

Going back instead I shut my eyes, dream who I could be once more - Instead he has to look back inside himself to figure out his own vision, his own beliefs, his own values, without being distracted or influenced.

They say the trouble with me is that I'm one who knows but I just don't understand - He is the type of person who has a vision of the way things should be or could be, but has trouble accepting things as they are and finds it difficult to understand why things just can't be like his perfectionistic vision.

Rolling back my head I think I've learned that I do want to live...again - He knows life is and can be wonderful, and wants to be out in the real world, and just needs to figure out how to do it in a way that will allow him to retain his own beliefs and be himself.

All my friends, they've been telling me you are the kindred soul - His friends know and believe he is a close friend who really cares and thinks about things and they appreciate and respect that.

All my friends, if they only knew who I was before, but - He doesn't feel worthy of that appreciation and respect because of thoughts and feelings that he has had in the past.

They haven't been where I've been, 17 months a year - We all have hard times, though they are all different. Others cannot truly understand the times we have had, just as we cannot truly understand their experiences.

That's such a lonely place, I don't want to live in fear - It was a lonely time because he felt that no one else understood him and his feelings and that is painful. But he doesn't want to hide from the world and avoid everyone and the pain that they can cause. If you do that, you miss out on good things as well.

Basically, becoming an adult is really tough and we have to hunker down and do what needs to be done and go on in life no matter what happens as we figure things out because there really isn't any other choice. But there are so many pleasures in life and life is so wonderful if we just don't get distracted by all the crap out there and as long as we remain true to ourselves.