Second Chance Lyrics

i think this song is about the light going on in a young mans head to who and what he wants to be. His dreams differ from those of his parents but he needs to move forward and is hoping their relationship will also. I think of my own son who has made the decision to join the military after all the iscussions and fears on our parts. Maybe it has helped me as a mom to let go of the boy he was and start new with the man he has become.

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This song for me is about being true to yourself and sometimes having to say goodbye to your family and there expectations of who they want you to be.

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My son just got sentenced to 8 years in prison for meth and firearms. The tell my mother, tell my father that sometimes goodbye is a second chance lyrics reminds me him. I am just hoping that prison will straighten him out as I always warned him he would end up in prison or dead, with the life that he was living. Iam thankful that he is not dead by now, so I would say that saying goodbye to him will be a second chance for him to get better. He looked beautiful the last time Ivisited him, being off the drugs so now he must make the best of his life and pursue a better life. I love the song and ShineDown.

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I think about our daughter (18 yrs old). She has been trying to do things our way (private school, college, etc..) and she is tired of trying. She's done the best she can, but now she needs to go out on her own...to say goodbye to us - in order to get her second chance at life and do it her way.

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I really enjoy this song.
Reading the comments of others it seems that there are two different opinions as to what exactlly it means. I personally feel that it speaks of new beginings and casting aside all that lay in the past and relaxing. Not 'jogging in place' or dwelling on the past, and moving forward, as stated before, a new begining. Some thinks that the song is about suicide and others do not, but really it's left to the listener to decide. It could be, it could not be...A new begining.

-Alshmee

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i think the song is about a person who has realized they are living a lie....and are finally doing something about it. i have a male friend..or had a male friend who recently began the process of becoming a woman...the song is about being true to yourself...its NEVER too late

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in the late 80's or early 90's a few people killed themselves they were in a cult and they were told there was a spaceship behind a commit to take them to another place the lyrics in this song is very similar to a note left by one of the cult members

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This in my favorite song! If you think it is about sucide then you are insane! The line 'im leaving out today' means that today is the day you life is going to start changing and you are going to leave your old life behind you. duh. :D

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I just heard this song for about the hundreth time yesterday and i really listened to it for the first time. See I just had a baby on thursday and did not feel it best for me to keep her. I had some problems with some of my family with this decision. They feel that she was part of the family that she should have stayed part of the family. So to me this song is like saying that I may have had to say good bye to her. But this is a second chance for the both of us. We will both have better lives because of the decisions I had to make.

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The song isn't about suicide. It's not about anything. Probably some of the most idiotic lyrics ever writtin. But the song is catchy as hell. I'll give it that.

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i like the song but i think it is about suicide. passing the moon and haley's comet. free from the things of life that weighed them down. telling the ones you love that you really tried but felt goodbye (death) is a 2nd chance (reincarnation,heaven). that your not angry...trying to relieve them of the guilt of your suicide...just my interpertation...i still like the song though

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i just found shinedown and i am absolutely in love, this song is amazing and so is sound of madness

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Are you crazy? This song is the opposite of suicide! It's about out with the old and in with the new. about moving away and starting a new life. Like when a person moves away from thier parents or something like that. NOT SUICIDE!!!
:-)

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this song is awesome, i relate to it, because my mother just died, and i am a single mom, and she was my rock, and i feel it is telling me i have a second chance, rock on shinedown, i love you.

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i think the whole album is great i love this one as it reminds me of a sweet 25 year old love it

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I love this song!!! This is my favorite song whoever does not like this song is wierd!I wish i could meet SHINEDOWN! That would be so cool and awesome. I love shinedown it is my favorite band!

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I love this song!!! This is my favorite song whoever does not like this song is wierd!I wish i could meet SHINEDOWN! That would be so cool and awesome. I love shinedown it is my favorite band!

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this song is okay...

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I love this song!! Its not about suicide, its about exactly what the video portrays! Sometimes you have to leave where you are to get to where you want. Even if you're saying goodbye you're starting a new life for yourself!

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this song can be about whatever you see it as. maybe the writer meant to write it as a suicide song, maybe a divorce or life changing song. a songs meaning is just whatever you perceive it as.

it's not a set in stone thing. it's changeable, debatable, it's basically whatever you see it as. songs and music in general make people feel different ways. so a song meaning isn't just what one person says, it's whatever you see it as, whatever it means to you. so if you see it as a suicide song, then so be it. maybe, to you, it is.

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Not about suicide..if you went thru divorce which is a good-bye you begin again, a 2nd chance..or if you give your life away to Christ, you will never experience the 2nd death and your 2nd chance is eternity w/ Him. THANK YOU SHINEDOWN for all the interest in what is a simple song..Your at a crossroads, what is your 2nd chance ??

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it seems as if this is saying that taking chances could go wrong or turn out good, all i know is that this has changed my life and the mistakes that i have made...

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I love this song(my favorite song!!!) and its not a suicide song. My eyes are open wide: I just realised what my life is. SOMETIMES GOODBYE IS A SECOND CHANCE: if you change your path in life its a 2nd chance. Suicde=death and heck, not another chance.
--Co-author of Wacked Poems--

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This song is not about suicide. It is about leaving the same place you have been for years. That is why it says
Why you always running in place.
Either that or it is about taking chances that could have messed you up but some times goodbye is a second chance.

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are ya retarded this sound is about sometimes you have to leave your life behind to start a new one.. this song has nothing to do with killin.. watch the video smarts

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