When I first heard this song, I thought it was a song about breaking up and living your "own life."

But after listening to the whole album, it seems to be more about breaking out on your own and doing your own thing ... without anyone caring. In the context of track "Back Home," these two tracks seem to indicate the story of a successful band looking for success far away from home, finding it, but yearning a return to home.


Yellowcard - Way Away

I think I'm breaking out
I'm gonna leave you now
There's nothing for me here
It's all the same
And even though I know
That everything might go
Go downhill from here
I'm not afraid

Way away away from here I'll be
Way away away so you can see
How it feels to be alone and not believe
(feels to be alone and not believe)
feels to be alone and not believe anything

You can't stop me now
You can't hold me down
You can't keep me here
I'm on my way
I made it this far now
And I'm not burning out
No matter what you say
I'm not afraid

Way away away from here I'll be
Way away away so you can see
How it feels to be alone and not believe
(feels to be alone and not believe)
feels to be alone and not believe anything

Letting out the noise inside of me
(Letting out the noise inside of me)
Every window pane is shattering
(Every window pane is shattering)
Cutting up my words before I speak
(Cutting up my words)
This is how it feels to not believe

Letting out the noise inside of me
(Letting out the noise inside of me)
Every window pane is shattering
(Every window pane is shattering)
Cutting up my words before I speak
(Cutting up my words)
This is how it feels to not believe

Way away away from here I'll be
Way away away so you can see
How it feels to be alone and not believe
(feels to be alone and not believe)
feels to be alone and not believe anything

Yellowcard - Back Home

Don't know what I was looking for when I went home, I found me alone
And sometimes I need someone to say,
"You'll be all right. What's on your mind?"
But the water's shallow here and I am full of fear,
and empty handed after two long years

Another sunny day in Californ-i-a
I'm sure back home they'd love to see it
But they don't know that what you love is ripped away
Before you get a chance to feel it

Back home I always thought I wanted so much more, now I'm not too sure
Cause sometimes I miss knowing someone's there for me and feeling free
Free to stand beside the ocean in moonlight
And light myself a smoke beneath the dark Atlantic sky

Another sunny day in Californ-i-a
I'm sure back home they'd love to see it
But they don't know that what you love is ripped away
Before you get a chance, before you get a chance to feel it

Everybody here is living life in fear of falling out of line
Tearing lives apart and breaking lots of hearts just to pass the time
And the eyes get red in the back of your head,
this place will make you blind
Put it all behind me and I'll be just fine

Another sunny day beneath this cloudless sky
Sometimes I wish that it would rain here
And wash away the west coast dreaming from my eyes
There's nothing real for them to see here

Another starry night in Californ-i-a
I'm sure back home they'd love to see it
But they don't know that what you love is ripped away
Before you get a chance, before you get a chance to feel it