Hey hey!

Yeh this one's called "Alps"-cool name, I like it.
The title was the first thing that started this whole piece off
(I actually only wrote it a couple of days ago-lol-) and that I decided to use the word after thinking about this great band I like: "Nine Black Alps"-check 'em out- (1st album gd, haven't heard the 2nd)-lol-

Ok, so let's begin...
Well it's about how when you're forced/expected to aspire, or you choose to aspire to this superior idea, but you never quite make it.

I wrote the piece with the idea of a employee who worked in an office, with his supreiors always expected him to be much more-but he never was no matter how hard he tried.

The 1st part of the verse talks about how, the character finds it harder and harder to pick himself up after each fall, and how he makes it more difficult for everyone around him. "With this concrete heart and my broken way" His concrete heart refers to how he's got no more enthusiasm in what he does and his broken way, is that he feels the way he's doing things is off course and hindering him.

The 2nd part of the verse deals with how again how he finds it harder, each time he is forced to get up again, but also more so in this part, it portays his anger for the way he is. He dread's each working day as he knows that he will always fail to meet the target and has had enough of his deteriorating life, which even himself, he admits he coaxed on slightly. "Can’t pretend to be myself for too long- I’ve missed the eyeball" refers how he finds it hard to be the person people expect him to be since he constantly misses the targets expected off him. "Eyeball" is used as it is derived from "bull's eye" and hence "target". It then concludes with the chacrcter feeling like he's losing touch with everything.

The chorus begins with how he dreams and feels he belongs in the target/place people are telling him to meet, believing he believes he deserves to live with the people already living his dream and he himself feels like his mistakes have forced him away from where he should be.

The second part of the is quite different. It deals with his realisation of how he can never make it where he dreams to be. That after losing this much, he can never recover. Trying to except that he is only human "Surface that you’re human" (and thus inherently flawed, and futhermore suggesting that he has to be more than human, if he's ever going to reach his target) The chorus ends with him envying his superiors (who are already enjoying the life he wishes to live), who coax him on, without any real feeling for him.

Finally the bridge. He realises that all his negative thinking, merely stops him from reaching his target and excepts he is frustrated due to never meeting it. But before settling on hope he realises, that although he has potential, he will never be where he belongs. “Sorry son, you’re good. But you ain’t got no smoke” is a variation of the common phrase: good, but no cigar-and demontrates this. He is dissapointed that he was so close and ends with his hatred towards his superiors who he sees as heartless beings, alien from him.

You think it's good? I quite like it. The idea behind it can be applied to many other situations, such as trying to be one of the cool kids, better never quite fitting in. -lol-

Enjoi!

H!IALC