The Fray - "You Found Me": Review, Song Meaning, Lyrics, and Download Info
Being a fan of their soft melodies and lyrics from How To Save a Life, I instantly downloaded "You Found Me" from iTunes. I also picked up a free music video from the song's debut on ABC's LOST. This free video is currently available to download from iTunes. Be sure to pick up the song and video there, legally, to respect the song's copyrights and to support The Fray.
After putting it in on my iPod and listening to it numerous times, I was amazed at all the emotion that the song had. Isaac Slade, the lead singer of The Fray, explained the song's meaning in a post on his blog. He wrote, "You Found Me is a tough song for me. Its about the disappointment, the heart ache, the let down that comes with life. Sometimes you're let down, sometimes you're the one who lets someone else down. It gets hard to know who you can trust, who you can count on. This song came out of a tough time, and I'm still right in the thick of it. There's some difficult circumstances my family and friends have been going through over the past year or so and can be overwhelming. It wears on me. It demands so much of my faith to keep believing, keep hoping in the unseen. Sometimes the tunnel has a light at the end, but usually they just look black as night. This song is about that feeling, and the hope that I still have, buried deep in my chest."
I'm sure that many people can relate to the powerfulness of Slade's lyrics. It asks why bad things happen to good people. He wrote the song after some of his friends and family went through some difficult times.
I find that this song is so well done that you can feel the pain and sorrow of Issac and the rest of the band. I can honestly say that I haven't looked forward to an album as much as I am looking forward to the release of The Fray on February 3, 2009. It's that good. Be sure to check out song if you haven't heard it yet.
I've also created completely accurate lyrics:
I found God
On the corner of First in Amistad
Where the west was all but won
All alone
Smoking his last cigarette
I said, "Where you been?"
He said, "Ask anything."
Where were you
When everything was falling apart?
All my days
Spent by the telephone
That never rang.
All I needed was a call
That never came
To the corner of First and Amistad
Lost and insecure,
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor,
Surrounded, surrounded.
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me
But in the end,
everyone ends up alone.
Losing her,
The only one who's ever known
Who I am, who I'm not, who I wanna be.
No way to know
How long she will be next to me.
Lost and insecure,
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor,
Surrounded surrounded.
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me
The Early morning,
The city breaks.
I've been calling
For years and years and years and years.
And you never left me no messages,
You never send me no letters.
You got some kind of nerve
Taking all of our...
Lost and insecure,
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor,
Where were you? Where were you?
Lost and insecure,
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded.
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late,
You found me, you found me.
Why'd you have to wait,
To find me?
To find me.
Enjoy!
Published by Chris Wellmen
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26 Comments
Post a CommentThe way he constantly references a woman by saying "no way to know how long she will be next to me" and "losing her" makes me believe this song is about a lost love. He says "you've got some kind of nerve taking all our love" which suggests that someone he loved died (thus God taking their love). He's been trying to reach God for years and years, but he never "responded" to his calls. Personally, I think his girlfriend/wife had cancer or another terminal disease, and he's been praying for her to be okay (that would explain that he's been "calling" God for years and never gotten an answer) and finally she died. He felt lost, insecure, and was a sad mess. Finally, he found God and was asking him where he was all those years when he needed him the most. That's just what I think, and that this is a little less about God than all of you think. The members of the band are all devoted christians, but they decided not to be a christian band because a lot of people wouldn't get it. So, I think this is very heavily based on christian beliefs and whatnot, but there are other meanings in there...
Though we wish God would help us through tough times, the truth is, WHY would he help ONE person when there are so many others so much more deserving of help??? Whether you believe in God or not,there are some things that happen and it is not because God did or did not help you, but they merely just,HAPPENED. God will not help you or sabotage you because it is not his place to interfere and the only thing that decides what course or path your life will take is YOU.
I was glad to hear this song, b/c that's how I've been feeling...like God is not there and doesn't care. Along with the 'praise God' music on Christian radio, I appreciate the 'I struggle with hope and faith' songs as well, this one among them.
The first time one pays attention to the lyrics of this song it can come off as really really negative, but I'm thinking that you just have to dig deeper in order to find the positive side to it.
I lost my brother 2 years ago. My life is now a dream. When will this dream end... The lyrics make me think of the night he died. "Where where you" the song asks. "Lying on the floor" Is how my brother was discovered dead. Its too hard for me to listen to this song.
I really think%2C that %22You found me%22 is beautyful song about life%3A feelings%2C happiness%2C sadness and everything what life is able to be. It gives me trust and hope. With this song I can couple all days. If I feel sad%2C I listen this song%2C and then I feel myself better. Sorry my bad english%2C I%60m Finn %3A%29 %0D%0ABut thanks for this song%21 It relly makes my day
...Turner at the MFA, "The Slave Ship"), was inquired about on the phone with me by John as a possibility for inclusion in the other song. To have a street corner, you need two streets: I picked "First and Amistad." Amistad is not a town. It's a movie, it was a ship run by really evil people, it ironically means "friendship," and now it's a song.
When am I getting paid for these songs?
--Lisa B.
www.LisaBreslin.com
To Chris Wellman:
The song "You Found Me" was partially written when John Mayer put Isaac Slade or whomever on the phone with me, and I explained that John and I had written several songs together--having been connected by people who turned out to be con artists, criminals! After John found out we'd both been duped, there were no more phone calls from John, "no messages," "no letters;" he was "taking all our words" and selling them to Sony/Columbia in songs, John supposedly thinking the con artists were paying me. It's all very depressing, and "lying on the floor" was another direct quote from me. We didn't quite figure it out until I started hearing our songs on the radio, and I knew somebody had made a whole lot of money off of me. These more recent co-writes are supposedly an attempt to make things up to me for lost credits and royalties.
Likewise, one of my pet topics, the infamous Cuba-based Spanish slave ship, La Amistad (possibly the topic of the violent painting by
i understand soo much what he is talking about.This song makes me think of my mother whom i was not very close with anymore because we had a falling out and never quite made it back and she just died recently,and i never got the chance to make things right...
Man, I love this song and understood it perfectly cause of the similar connection I have with Isaac Slade in that situation