Tonight has got me all messed up, not just cause mother is in the hospital or my depressive down turn but because i was listening to the song (ill provide below)
“According to lead singer Isaac Slade, the song was composed and influenced by his experience while working as a mentor at a camp for troubled teens:
“ One of the youngsters I was paired up with was a musician. Here I was, a protected suburbanite, and he was just 17 and had all these problems. And no one could write a manual on how to save him. ”
Slade claims that the song is about all of the people that tried to reach out to the boy but were unsuccessful. As Slade says in an interview, the boy’s friends and family approached him by saying, “Quit taking drugs and cutting yourself or I won’t talk to you again,” but all he needed was some support. The boy was losing friends and going through depression. He lost his best friend and could not deal with it.”
Reading that tore me up because I knew what it’s like to lose a friend because of mental illness, and I just can’t stop crying. I am so incredibly sad and I wish I could have been there for that guy, I mean back then I was a kid but if I knew him and knew what was happening and that he was losing friends because of his mental illnesses, I would have said that I’d stick by him no matter what and that we’d be friends forever. I just wish I could have provided that support. I’m so sorry. omg, I can’t stop crying this hurts to the core how people could be so mean and cruel as to do shit like this because when he needed someone the most, in his darkest time, everyone abandoned him. I just wish I could have held out my hand and said “You don’t need any of them because they were fake friends but I am your real friend and I will stick by you no matter what.
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