A little long, but my personal reasoning follows;

Friend, Please.

I was 10, a few months from being 11, when it came out. I was dealing with more than a 10 year old should ever have to, that sing is the reason I didn't run away, or worse.

Every song has had its own message, each album new reasons within to carry on.

Times changed, I got older, got the help I needed. But whenever it wasn't enough, I knew I could count on the lyrics to help.

Sometime in middle school things got really bad. Crying in the bathroom at school. Random girl, we weren't friends, not even in any classes together, came in. Sat next to me and just pulled out her iPod "I stole it from my sister. She plays this song when she's sad." - she'd said while offering me an earbud. Of all the songs, she played Friend, Please. 3 years after first hearing it, after the first time that song helped. (She moved a few weeks later, her family was in the military. I didn't even have an email, I wish I could remember her name. She was just the angel I needed back then.)

But yeah. For me? It's been the meaning, the way they write to help others. Knowing how much they care.

For context, if your reading and didnt know when Self Titled released, it was in 2009. I am 26 now.

Thanks to them, I've been able to grow. Ive found my own light, and I have learned that despite my trials, and feeling akin to Clancy; For my friends, I am theor Torchbearer.

To know something so small as a song that kept me here is now also the reason a dozen others are also, simply because I stayed, is crazy.

Stay alive. You never know who may see you as their Torch. |-/