Story about this misheard lyric by: Carrie S.

Now, it's not really funny, but it is weird. I think I thought it said this because I usually heard it on the bus's radio in high school, so you couldn't hear it that well. But they played it all the time. I was kinda religious (Christian) at the time, and also struggling with depression and my own thoughts about my friends going off to fight in the military (a lot of them did after high school), but my health wasn't good, so I knew I wasn't going, even though they talked about it all the time, even asking me what branch I was going into, even though I never said I was going. And I think I thought that this was a song about being seen as an extreme person, just being you were religious. That's why I thought the song implied that the singer was going to Hell when he died. I also didn't know how I felt about all of it, because I didn't know much about why they were fighting back then. So, I think I thought it was about how, eventually, if you didn't understand it, a person would have to turn to the other side or something, and the singer is coming to terms with accepting that---which is NOT true at all! I think I thought that my friends were all leaving me b/c they thought I was a bad person for not understanding wars/ having a religion. Also, I thought it was about ending up alone, and just having God, that's why I thought it said "when she won't", like, the singer never finds love b/c everybody hates him and thinks he's a bad person b/c of his religion. He almost is so lonely he wants to off himself, but he wrote this song to tell himself, "Well, no. There are still lonely people out there, just like myself, so if they can still roam around and sing, then so can I! Even if they are seen as bad people for loving God." I was like 15-16, though, which, looking back, hormones can make you really emotional around that age! And, truth be told, I had only heard bits and pieces about wars/ etc.