Sunsets For Somebody Else

Song: Sunsets for Somebody Else
Artist: Jack Johnson

I've really been liking the new Jack Johnson album. This song in particular is one I have been listening to a lot because I feel like the lyrics are very fitting. This past weekend was a very sobering and dark time for me. I had a mini mental breakdown and panic attack and just curled up in a ball and tried to pretend I didn't exist. I feel so tired. I feel so tired of being lonely. And forgotten. I just sit in my little corner of emptiness and loneliness and watch while "the sunsets for somebody else." Someone else got engaged. Someone else got married. Someone else had a baby. Someone else has a successful job. Someone else has a boyfriend. Someone else is "living the life" at college. Someone else is happy. But not me.

I know I've seen your face somewhere
Selling something, some big idea
I know I've seen that vacant stare
Selling sunsets for somebody else
You find yourself asking yourself
"What is any of it worth?"
You find yourself looking up at night
From the bottom of the earth

No, can this world not afford to sleep anymore?
No, did your sheep start jumping?
They grow out their teeth
Did they need a little something more than this?

The taste of trouble on your lips
'Cause now they're biting at your thoughts
You tell yourself just to turn away
But you know you've already lost
The smell of rain when you saw a way
Could never be paid in full
You try in vain to account for this mess
And everything that you stole

No, can this world not afford to sleep anymore? (Oh)
No, did your sheep start jumping?
They grow out their teeth
Did they need a little something more than this?

'Cause now they're biting at your feet
They got you running from this place
Now they're breathing down your neck
Your eyes look lonely in your face
I see you looking just out of frame
What is it pulling you there?
'Cause things can never stay the same
So what is keeping you here?

No, can this world not afford to sleep anymore? (Oh)

No, did your sheep start jumping?
They grow out their teeth
They need a little something now

Every time you think, well, they'll be biting at your thoughts
And every time you blink, well, you'll be so damn far
But you are more than this
I know I've seen your face somewhere

*Things are not going well for me. I'm stressed and anxious and depressed and angry and sad and lonely. I don't really feel like life is worth living and I don't feel like anyone is there for me or cares about me.