Published February 1st, 2008 by hrabbach
Relient K - Come right out and say it
Maybe I should review the entire album “five score and seven years ago” at some point, but today I’ll just focus on the one song that really means a lot to me. “Come right out and say it” is about honesty. It’s also about a friendship that’s breaking up. Could be the sad end to a romantic love story… but it doesn’t have to be. It could happen between friends… unfortunately I know what I’m talking about. So one of them “beats around the bush”, never quite saying what it is that’s going on. And the other one notices. People are that way. Sometimes it’s hard to even say what it is that’s bothering you. It can seem so insignificant that you’d feel strange even mentioning it. Or it can be that big, life-altering secret that is getting between you and the other person, but you don’t want them to know. You may want to keep the friendship going, but it’s the silence that destroys more than it preserves. “Thought you were being so kind by keeping your mouth sealed shut rather than just opening it up” - it often doesn’t work that way. When it last happened to me, it didn’t work. I knew that something was wrong, long before it even started getting close to the surface. I started to try and figure out what it was - if I had done something wrong, if it was anything that I could fix. “And I try to guess what goes on in your head. Cause in your mind I just might find all those things you left unsaid“.
Sometimes it’s better to just come out with the truth - I know I was hurt way more by the silence than by what came out many months later. At least now I knew… some things I could do something about, others were completely outside of my control. It really wasn’t my fault after all, but I spent months thinking it was. This song got me through some of that time… more than once I wanted to sing it out loud to the other person: “Why don’t you come right out and say it. Even if the words are going to hurt we’re better off this way. Why don’t you come right out and say what I know you’re thinking anyway“.
Song: Come right out and say it
Artist: Relient K
Album: Five score and seven years ago
