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Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you've broken
this song is all about putting your lifestyle in check. this begins this "story" so to speak by talking about what would cause this subject to enter your mind- looking back on the past and what youve done
Dont close your eyes, Dont close your eyes
a lot of times when you think of bad things you may have done in the past, you tend to push them away and not even think about them, cuz sin is an ugly thing, so this is a reminder that you need to examine it without immediately dismissing it, or else nothing will change
This is your life, and today is all you've got now
and today is all you'll ever have
after you get that reminder youve got to go back and look at it. it sucks but youve got to do it. by saying today is all youve got now, it means just that. right now you can make a change. when he says today is all you'll ever have, he doesnt mean that specific day. he means you can repeat this process over and over again by saying ill make a change "today" but you never do...
Dont close your eyes, Dont close your eyes
its an annoying and depressing thing to look at the things you dont like about your life, but dont just put a wall between you and those things or theyll never get better. youve got to open your eyes and make a change.
Chorus:
This is your life, are you who you wanna be?
This is your life, are you who you wanna be?
after all that thinking, it finally leads you to this question and the beginning of hopefully a reform in your personality or something about you that you dont like
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be?
When the world was younger, and you had everything to lose
everyone will admit they have something they dont like about themselves. they wish or "dream" that it would change. most people have done it when they were a lot younger. they might have even vowed to change it back then. he says "when the world was younger" which is also referring to when you were younger and you had innocence which is what hes talking about you losing.
Verse 2:
Yesterday is a kid in the corner, Yesterday is dead and over
now you can take the whole "kid in the corner" thing to mean two things- either the things you have done you have regretted just like a kid in the corner thinkin bout what he did to get himself sent there; or you can see it as the next line says that yesterday is dead and over. you dont pay attention to yesterday, not very interesting, just like a kid sittin quietly in the corner, you dont notice them.
Chorus
after repeating this chorus you come to realize that verse 2 was talking about letting go now of those mistakes and the chorus basically tells you to start over and make some changes if you need to. i truly believe when switchfoot wrote it, it was intended to convince someone to be a christian because that solves so many if not all of your problems, if you want more info, talk to me
Dont close your eyes, Dont close your eyes
Dont close your eyes, Dont close your eyes
This is your life, are you who you wanna be?
This is your life, are you who you wanna be?
during this part the song echoes that "dont close your eyes" part and then goes to almost no instruments because its serious as it asks if your who you wanna be. no more messing around. youve probly figured out whats wrong- you need God and you need to make some changes
Chorus
it was a touching moment and thats where a lot of people would like to leave it instead of taking it seriously. i like songs like this though, cuz if you really listen to them, theyll smack you right in the face put you in check to see if your doing things right.

you guys should check this song out sometime, its not jus good lyrics, its also good music as well.

this has been an evaluation by dyce