my daughter is doing a report on it and i really dont know exactly what its about and who is telling the story
2007-01-28 16:03:28 · 8 answers · asked by bigbaddan7114 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
I heard it has something to do with the lead singer and his little brother.
2007-01-28 16:08:19 · answer #1 · answered by Dane Cruz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6555
This song is about a fight that Fray singer/pianist Isaac Slade had with his brother Caleb - who is nicknamed "Cable Car" - back when Caleb still played bass for The Fray before getting kicked out in 2002. Isaac wanted Caleb to leave the band because Caleb wasn't so great. This song is about a conflict told through Caleb's eyes. "Everything falling through" refers to the band coming apart because of the conflict. In the song, Caleb wishes that someone had just been honest with him earlier and told him that they wanted him to leave. He then feels apathetic about the band and resigns himself to run away. The second verse is where Caleb calls out the rest of the band and says that they will find a new bass player ("another friend") but will just mistreat him like they did him. Caleb is in over his head because he thought he could be a great musician, but it turns out he wasn't good enough.
2007-01-28 16:10:49 · answer #2 · answered by I♥my emily 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isaac Slade wrote the song about a fight he had with his brother Caleb (whose nickname is Cable Car). Isaac has mentioned on occasion that this fight had something to do with Isaac asking Caleb (who was the first bassist) to leave the band for its best interests in 2002. The song is told from Caleb's view point, for example, "To turn and run when all I needed was the truth," corresponds to the band not telling him about his shortcomings as a bassist. In the second verse, he tells the band that they will find a new bassist, but still mistreat the new bassist as they mistreated him ("Find another friend and you'll discard."). [3]. The original title of the track was just "Cable Car" but Epic Records believed that it would be easier for people to remember "Over My Head".
http://www.answers.com/topic/over-my-head-cable-car
2007-01-28 16:15:13 · answer #3 · answered by blt_4 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
love the song!!
"And suddenly I become a part of your past
I'm becoming the part that don't last
I'm losing you and its effortless"
my favorite saying of the song.....the strongest I should say
honestly from my perspective I think the song shows frienship that is being distroyed....or better yet lost(dead). And things are just not the same with that person gone. and it just shows some situations of the process of losing some1 so special and important in ones life.
2007-01-28 16:11:11 · answer #4 · answered by Maria Maria! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.lyricinterpretations.com/lookat.php/bands/The-Fray/3e7843af9f27acc
On that site it tells you what the song is about. There are some personal opinions as well as what the writers of the song intended it to mean.
2007-01-28 16:12:36 · answer #5 · answered by Mels 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those lyrics to me speak of having strong feelings about someone, and about sometimes you wish you didn’t have those feelings simply because that would make it easier to deal with things.
2007-01-28 16:13:44 · answer #6 · answered by anime_chump99 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
being someplace new and not knowing your place and feeling you have gotten yourself "in over your head". Feeling like you don't belong and asking yourself why you put ourself in such a position
2007-01-28 16:12:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. Maybe it's "over my head"! lol
2007-01-28 16:33:21 · answer #8 · answered by KMD Zev Sub and Onyx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋