Believer imagine dragons album cover
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Reynolds continues to tell us that he would "ake us message from the veins / Speaking lesson from the brain." The "veins" may represent blood and one's heart while "the brain" speaks of rationality. The fact that the fans understood him probably brought him comfort as he sang "from heartache from the pain." This is especially important because many of Imagine Dragons's songs can sound dark or brooding, suggesting a dark inner life for the songwriter. That battle has led him to take his "sulking to the masses" in the form of song, or as he says, "Write down my poems for the few / That looked at me, took to me, shook to me, feeling me." People listened to what he had to say and understood what he meant. He's known his limits, and he's battled with them. In this stanza of "Believer," Reynolds tells us, "I was broken from a young age." This could mean any number of things, but perhaps it's meant to communicate to us that he's been introspective about his own weaknesses since he was a child.
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This could pertain to fans wanting it to continue making a specific sound or acting a certain way, but Imagine Dragons wants to maintain personal and artistic integrity. The band is going to say what it wants to say and do what it wants to do. They continue, "Second thing second / Don't you tell me what you think that I can be / I'm the one at the sail, I'm the master of my sea." This whole verse is a message of empowerment. Well, this "first" thing is that "Imma say all the words inside my head / I'm fired up and tired of the way that things have been." Reynolds and the rest of Imagine Dragons are preparing us to hear what they have to say and want us to know that they won't apologize. And after Imagine Dragons took a break for a while (at least from releasing albums), it makes sense that the band would have a few things that it needs to get off its chest and tell fans. In the first verse of "Believer," Dan Reynolds sings, "First things first," and those three words tell us something important about the form of this song: there's going to be a list of things. The song is the declaration of a person who has experienced great pain in his life but who has learned important things about himself through those experiences. We don't know for sure that this is autobiographical to anyone in the band, but there's such emotion in the vocalization that it's hard to not believe that this song has deep personal meaning. Overall, "Believer" is about someone who finds meaning in the pain in his life.