Let Me Be Myself

Let Me Be Myself

There are some points in life that can be very confusing. You could be going to a new school, breaking up with your girlfriend, or getting a new job. In the song "Let Me Be Myself" 3 Doors Down talks about being confused. Not only being confused about things in your life, but being confused about yourself. There are a few messages in this song, such as talking about relationships and society's follies. However, there is one message that I think is obvious, just be yourself.

In the song "Let Me Be Myself" there is a very apparent message. This message is be yourself. I think that this has a few different meanings to it though. The song is saying "Would you let me be myself?" This line makes me think that the song writer is talking to a specific person maybe a spouse or girlfriend. In that way the song makes a lot of sense to me. There are so many relationships in the world that fail because one of the participants is too controlling. I think that when people are in a relationship they should respect the person they are with for the person they are, such as how it says in the song. Also in the song it says "I'll never find my heart behind someone else." This also supports the fact that the person is with a spouse, not wanting to give your heart to someone else because they may be hurt again. They want to "Take back all of these times that I gave in to you" I can understand this too because a relationship that I was in my girlfriend was very controlling and made me just sad to be me. Like I was wrong for the things that I wanted to do and it seems that in the song he is being forced to conform to please the one that he loves. When someone you used to care about a lot hurts you a lot you want to forget all the times you had together. It is a tough thing to be with someone that doesn't like you for who you are.

Looking at this song a little deeper you can see a few more things that they could be talking about. I think that this song is not talking about one person not liking them but many. I think it could have the meaning of society not accepting people for who they are. There are always out casts in the world. People that you think are weird and people you think are not cool. But in this song I think that 3 Doors Down were the outcast and they conformed to who everyone wanted them to be. 3 Doors Down conform to society and they hate it, "I guess I just got lost Bein' someone else" this tells how they conformed to who they didn't want to be, because everyone just wants to be able to be who they are. "I tried to kill the pain nothin ever helped I left myself behind somewhere along the way hopin to come back around to find myself someday" this is showing how in the song they just hate who they have become and that they never wanted to be that way. I would theorize that when they said