Indigo - Pendragon

It's very difficult to choose one favourite song, because there are lots of songs that I really really like. However, there's a song, in fact, an album that has been spinning round my head lately, and has really touched my heart. ='0

This is the concept of this song and the whole album,
a young man trapped in a box with hands and legs cuffed.

It's Indigo, from "pure" album by pendragon. The album talks about the path that we walk from adolescence to adulthood, and its difficulties. Here are the lyrics:

Indigo

Never felt too good about my life
looked like I'd end up on the scraphead with the other dogs of night
Insecure and dangerous
Never had the chances or the breaks that the other kids had
So you drag your life through the dust
But in you there was that glow - And a coat of indigo

Problems will come and go - In my coat of indigo


In the dark I wear my coat of many colours - In some way it covers where I'm from
So you drag your life through the dust - Across the red and gold sunset skies
My wishes always lead me beyond the confines of this life
So much to give


If I'd had a chance I would have burnt this place down
Why did the espectre of no hope choose our town?

But in you there was that glow - And a coat of indigo
Problems will come and go - In my coat of indigo

I've been trapped for most of my life in this airtight box
If I could get just one arm free - Then the world would notice me

If I could get just one arm free - Swim to the surface where I can breath
If I could get just one arm free - There's a chance that the world will notice me
If I could get just one arm free - There's a chance that the world will notice me
If I could get just one arm free - I could swim to the surface where I can breath


Everyday the alarm bell rings - And I face another murder of a day
And I look out of my window - And the sky is deathly grey
All the bleakness and the industry of the world groans as it starts another day
Its masters demand their pound of flesh - I cannot take this way
So I look to the safety of my subconscious - Where I wash away all my fear
And I will dive into a deep blue lagoon - And swim away from here


I loved the first time I listened to this song, I heard the line
"I've been trapped for most of my life in this airtight box
If I could get just one arm free - Then the world would notice me" and
"If I could get just one arm free - Swim to the surface where I can breath", and I said to myself "that's me!". I sometimes feel trapped at my home, I wanna be free and find myself somewhere else. I love my parents, but sometimes they sofocate me, I need privacy and respect, respect over my decisions and the way I am. I think that when I get out of this "box", people will notice me and meet the 'real me'.

The line "If I'd had a chance I would have burnt this place down
Why did the espectre of no hope choose our town?" brought me back to my 15's when I was more hormonal and neurotic, I didn't know what I wanted in life but I felt I needed something. I just wanted to burn something down or get away from everything. When the major problem was love and acceptance, and that could make you want to kill yourself. Life is much more complicate now.

At this age, you start to realize that life is not as beautiful as you thought it was, and nothing is, Love is not what you thought, religion never was, the whole world is a big disappointment. That's why this process of becoming adult is so painful, but at the same time so instructive. You get to know yourself better, to get to know people better, to start to see life differently. It's time to move on!

You can listen to this song on the player at the bottom.
It's the last song on the list.

I hope you like it