The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony Lyrics Meaning

Many people seem to agree this song is about life and some people believe it's also about someone loving even though they know one day they are going to die and only a few of you think it's about living with a disorder mostly bipolar. But has any of you thought this was just a song about the 'Average Joe'?

In most of my favorite books and movies, the main character is struggling with the bitter sweetness of life but also dealing with the question "Who am I?" For some people the answer is never answered, that the person thinks the he/she is one way when in truth they are extremely different. Now, the question of who you really are is very hard to answer which is normal for some people but other people find it pit from friends or just living life bit the truth is that you aren't who you really are, the world seems to make this veil over your face locking your real personality in while media and the government make a whole new person of you. Don't believe me? Fine. Bit back to the song, when it says, "I'm a million different people from one day to the next" he is really saying that he doesn't know who he is so the world uses that to it's advantage and makes him believe he's one person though he isn't who he thinks he is.

Another thing in the song is that it talks about money. Even when i was young, I would worry about money, I always thought that if all the money on the world is the same why haven't we gone broke yet? I only thought that because I can never relax and be calm about anything. But you know how rich celebrities do dumb things? They have so much money, they don't know what to do with it so they do the dumb things because they think that since they have so much money, they're better than anyone and so they do just dumb things.

Also, the song talks about "take you down to the only road I've been down, you know the one that takes you to all the places where all the things meet," it's saying this person has only ever seen pain and suffering and he will show you where he's been and seen and done. One of those things is freedom. No o e has freedom. You are pretty much a prisoner of the social media, instead of learning about what is happening in the world you learn that some celebrity you couldn't care less about is dating some random person. The celebrities are also prisoners, if the press as so much as see you in sweats with you're hair a mess, they're going to get suspicious (like your taking drugs or just broke up with somebody)even though you only wore that because it's your day off and you probably just woke up. Even the news isn't showing about the world bit about celebrities and random people for no reason.

And if you are cracking joke about I don't blondes or ladies maybe, you'd get trampled by everyone saying that you are a terrible person even though it was just a joke, especially if your a comedian on public tv.

So in the end, what I'm saying is that this song is about the ups and downs of life, how we're all under media pressure and can't break free and how no one knows who they really are and just know who they want to be and who the government and social media changes you into. Bit like what Freddie Mercury and David Bowie said, "We're breaking Under Pressure."