nothing is sound

first of all, i'd just like to say that zack showing me up with two posts in two nights isn't the ONLY reason i'm posting. i've been thinking about this song for a long time, and even though it may not apply to my life i feel like it may have some relevance later on. so what better thing to do that evaluate it, right?

Buried deep as you can dig inside yourself
covered with a perfect shell,
such a charming, beautiful exterior
This person (we'll call her a she from now on, because that's the way i've always pictured this song) has a seemingly perfect life. Perfect body, perfect personality, perfect everything. Anything that everyone sees shows up as totally perfect.. flawless.

Laced with brilliant smiles and shining eyes
perfect posture but you're barely scraping by,
but you're barely scraping by
She has a beautiful smile, wonderful eyes, just like everything's totally perfect. But things aren't so perfect. Something in her life, or maybe everything, is going horribly wrong. It could be a relationship, anything. But this person's world has been shattered by something horrible. And now she can barely live with herself, but doesn't want people to realize it.

This is one time, this is one time
that you can't fake it hard enough to please
everyone, or anyone at all.. or anyone at all
I take this as somehow, people aren't buying this whole "flawless" thing anymore. Maybe her life just seemed too perfect in everyone's eyes, that people finally started realizing something could be wrong.

And the grave that you refuse to leave,
the refuge that you've built to flee
are the places you have come to fear the most.
They're the places you have come to fear the most.
She has a place she goes to inside herself, to get away from it all. Maybe the horrible thing that happened, or maybe to get away from the society she's trying to hide everything from. Now suddenly, even this place seems so unsafe, so scary. She can do nothing to get away, but she's too scared to face that horrible thing that's happened. She feels so helpless.. lost.

Buried deep as you can dig inside yourself
hidden in the public eye,
such a stellar monument of loneliness
She continues to go deeper and deeper inside herself to not show society, even her friends, how lonely and scared she is. She continues to hide behind a mask. But she's no longer safe, and everyone can tell how lonely she is. She just won't seem to open up to them.

Laced with brilliant smiles and shining eyes
perfect makeup, but you're barely scraping by,
you are barely scraping by..
Like I said, she continuously hides behind this mask, this "makeup" trying to hide herself from society. Trying to hide herself from having to face up to problems. So now, all she's got to look forward to in life is scraping by, worrying about if society can tell how lonely and scared she is..

i believe this song was written for a purpose. possibly someone chris carabba knew, maybe even his own self. hiding from problems, no matter how big or small, will never make that problem go away. ever. and hiding it from friends or family won't help either. there'll always be someone to tell if you have a problem.. and i know this is a little off subject, but i just wanna say that if any of my friends need to talk to me about anything, i'll always be there. always.

this was an evaluation by that one runner kid.