You Decide It
Empower Your Journey: Life's Choices in 'You Decide It' by Orange Grove
Lyrics
It’s your life you decide it, so many others lost their way
Emphasizes personal agency, urging the listener to take control of their life. Acknowledges that others have lost their way.
It’s your life you decide it, it’s yours to use or throw away
Reiterates the theme of personal choice, highlighting the listener's responsibility for their life.
Your heart, it took a beating
Describes the listener's heart as having suffered emotional pain or hardship.
It was caught and stabbed, left bleeding
Portrays a metaphorical image of the heart being wounded, possibly in the context of a failed relationship.
Now those feelings they seem so deceiving
Suggests that the emotions felt are now deceptive or misleading.
Nothing is coming your way so you’re running away
Implies a sense of avoidance or escapism, with the listener running away from challenges.
You fought, you begged, you pleaded
Describes a past struggle involving fighting, begging, and pleading.
In the end you lost just what you needed
Indicates a loss despite efforts, possibly alluding to a sense of defeat.
Now it is so hard to even believe in it
Expresses difficulty in believing or having faith in something after a challenging experience.
Nothing is coming your way cause you’re running away
Reiterates a pattern of running away from circumstances, possibly a recurring theme in the listener's life.
It’s your life you decide it, so many others lost their way
Recalls the theme of personal choice and acknowledges the prevalence of others losing their way.
It’s your life you decide it, it’s yours to use or throw away
Restates the idea that the listener has the power to use or discard their life.
All eyes were on her like so many I adored her. The way she walked, the way she talked, all like a pre-Madonna. She carried a high price, being nice couldn’t afford her, but while the stares had her cornered what she wanted just ignored her
Describes admiration for a woman, highlighting societal expectations and pressures. Indicates that despite attention, her desires are ignored.
What the love once did drugs’ll never do for her. They’ll just pick her off the ground to let her go and then ignore her. Have her lost in the ruins of her Sodom and Gamorra and that’s just the order of the day
Contrasts past love with the destructive nature of drugs, suggesting a decline and neglect in the woman's life.
You fought, you begged, you pleaded
Recalls a previous struggle similar to earlier lines.
In the end you lost just what you needed
Reiterates a sense of loss despite efforts, emphasizing a recurring theme.
Now it is so hard to even believe in it
Expresses skepticism or difficulty in believing in something after experiencing hardship.
Nothing is coming your way cause you’re running away
Repeats the idea of running away from challenges or difficulties.
It’s your life you decide it, so many others lost their way
Echoes the theme of personal choice and acknowledges the prevalence of others losing their way.
Who’s to say you won’t be the same. Just another life gone washed down the drain
Suggests uncertainty about the listener's fate, questioning if they will follow the same path as others who have lost their way.
It’s your life you decide it, it’s yours to use or throw away
Reiterates the theme of personal choice, emphasizing the listener's responsibility for their life.
What good is your life anyway, if you nah wan use it and just throw it away
Presents a rhetorical question challenging the value of life if it is not utilized and is discarded.
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