Far Away
⟪radio.wavs⟫ Lyrics
Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴ Line by Line Meaning ↴
Everybody's trying to be the same
Shoved in my locker for liking Bowling For Soup
Had atomic wedgie ripped my asshole bad
Chick I like is with a dick named Chad
Gotta ditch these bitches and get away from here
I don't know, where I'm gonna go
Just as long as its far away from here
Gotta hit that road and disappear
Hit a new city start a bad ass band
Finally hit the stage start to understand
Try not to let these things in life get me down
I don't really care what they have to say
Gonna see my name in lights one day
Get to show those assholes imma be okay
I don't know, where I'm gonna go
Just as long as its far away from here
I don't know, where I'm gonna go
Gotta hit that road and disappear
Hit that road
And disappear
Long, so far
Far away from here
I don't know, where I'm gonna go
Just as long as its far away from here
I don't know, where I'm gonna go
Gotta hit that road and disappear
The lyrics of this song talk about the struggles of high school and not being accepted by one's peers. The singer of the song is bullied for liking a band called Bowling for Soup and is even physically harassed with an "atomic wedgie". He likes a girl who chooses to date someone else, and he feels the need to escape and start over somewhere far away from his current life. The lyrics evoke a sense of hopelessness and the need to escape, to start anew without the baggage of the past. The singer dreams of starting a band and seeing his name in lights, indicating his desire to be recognized and valued for his talents, whereas in his current life he is only ostracized.
The lyrics are simple yet poignant, capturing the feelings of many teenagers who feel rejected and out of place. The heavy use of slang words and colloquialisms in the lyrics adds to the authenticity of the song and its appeal to a younger audience. The chorus "I don't know, where I'm gonna go, just as long as it's far away from here, gotta hit that road and disappear" is a powerful repetition that emphasizes the need to leave everything behind and start over.
Line by Line Meaning
My life sucks and high school's lame
My existence feels miserable and my experience in high school is uninspiring and uninteresting.
Everybody's trying to be the same
The people around me are conforming to societal norms and losing their individuality.
Shoved in my locker for liking Bowling For Soup
I was ridiculed and humiliated for enjoying a certain type of music.
Had atomic wedgie ripped my asshole bad
I was subjected to extreme bullying and humiliation.
Chick I like is with a dick named Chad
The person I am attracted to is in a relationship with someone who I perceive to be unpleasant.
Gotta ditch these bitches and get away from here
I need to distance myself from these negative people and remove myself from this environment.
I don't know, where I'm gonna go
Just as long as its far away from here
I am unsure of where I will go, but it is important for me to physically and emotionally distance myself from my current situation.
Gotta hit that road and disappear
I need to leave this place and start a new journey in life.
Hit a new city start a bad ass band
I want to move to a new location and pursue my passion for music by starting a successful band.
Finally hit the stage start to understand
By performing on stage, I will gain a greater understanding of my strengths and weaknesses as a musician.
Try not to let these things in life get me down
I will strive to remain positive and not let negative experiences in life affect my mental health.
I don't really care what they have to say
I am not concerned with the opinions of those who have mistreated or belittled me.
Gonna see my name in lights one day
I am determined to achieve success and be recognized for my talents.
Get to show those assholes imma be okay
I aim to prove to those who have doubted me that I will be successful and happy in life.
Hit that road
And disappear
I will leave this place behind and start anew in a new location.
Long, so far
Far away from here
I want to distance myself as much as possible and be far away from my current environment.
Lyrics © DistroKid
Written by: Adam Bengtson
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@arkasengupta4476
That depends on how strong the signal was when it left Earth. As others pointed out, it just keeps getting fainter, until your receiver can’t distinguish it from the background noise. But let’s do a numerical example of something like a large broadcast station, radiating a megawatt.
What’s the signal strength? Typically you’ll work in terms of a Watts/square meter/Hz of bandwidth - Let’s assume that the station has 10 kHz bandwidth - so it’s radiating 100 Watts/Hz. That spreads as a sphere with surface are 4*pi*r^2.
So, at 1 million km (not too far away), the sphere is about 12.6E18 square meters - the spectral flux density is then 100/12.6E18 W/Hz/m^2 -> 7.95E-18. (-171 dBW/Hz/m^2)
Now, let’s ask “what’s the smallest signal we can detect against the noise?” In general, you’re going to be working against the cosmic background radiation, which varies with frequency - but a good approximation is to assume it is at 3 degrees Kelvin and uniform in all directions: Boltzmans constant is 1.38E-23, so multiplying that out we get about 4E-23 W/Hz/m^2 or -224 dBW/Hz/m^2.
So, at a million km, the radio station is 53 dB stronger than the background noise.
So let’s move farther away - it goes as inverse square, so if we move out by a factor of 1000, to a billion (1E9) km from earth, the radio station is now at -231 dBW/Hz/m^2, which is below our noise by about 7 dB. This would make it very difficult to detect.
Now, if you wanted to make a signal that can be detected easily, you’d make a very narrow band transmission - Above, I assumed the radio station was essentially random noise with 10kHz BW. If we transmit just a narrow carrier (<1 Hz wide), then we pick up another 40 dB. So at a billion km, we’re now at -191 dBW/m^2, compared with -224 dBW/m^2. If we go out to the Kuiper belt, where things like Pluto are, that’s at 6E9 km, and our signal is another 15 dB weaker (-206 dBW), but still detectable. Out at 200 AU (3E10 km), we’re starting to get close - the signal is -220 dBW, and the noise is -224.
But, if you go out to Proxima Centauri, 4.4 light years, or 4.16E13 km (that’s about 41,600 billion km), the signal has faded to way below the noise floor.
@susanbullock3358
Radio waves, or electromagnetic waves spread out into larger and larger circles as they propagate from the source. Since the vacuum of space has a ubiquitous background noise that is about 2.7 Kelvin at its minimum., anything weaker than this is not detectable once the source signal is less than this background noise. Notice that the faint starlight we see in the dark nighttime sky is no longer visible when the scattered blue light from the sun is brighter than this distant starlight. If it wasn't for this ethereal noise, a vestige from the big bang, the radio waves from earth could travel forever. Most earth's broadcast never reach the closet star,
@ChrissyboyH44
That is true as there would be no background noise getting in the way, right?.. or actually maybe not. The big question though to me is this...
If I was say 30 light years away from Earth, and I built a dish receiver like 5 million miles wide, could I then receive a 30 year old tv signal from Earth? The dish would be so massive that it would be able to collect enough photons (with 100% exact direction on the dish pointing at Earth of course) to receive it's desired signal. It's a bit like throwing millions of fish back into the middle of a giant ocean and they all then swim towards the shore. If you had a big enough net a few miles wide on the shore, but thousands of miles from where the fish were placed at sea, you would still catch a lot of fish due to the emence size of the net.
I had this conversation with someone and he said, "you would still receive nothing because the noise level would be higher than the signal level in ratio." Basically he was saying that the bigger the dish, the more higher background noise it would receive. However, if the background noise is a constant temperature like you say, then does this even matter that "more noise" is received in proportion to size of receiver? Isn't background noise still received the same on just tiny receivers anyway? It's not like you can ever null it out, or is it? ;)
Maybe the background noise is essential for the radio waves to "swim" in. Too much water, and the swimmer will drown, but take all his water away, and he will no longer be a swimmer. ;)
@indevibe
@@ChrissyboyH44 I agree with you on that one! The signal will not travel in the vacume of space is thr e background noise was not present so it's essential carring the signal but on a faint scope.
@ChrissyboyH44
@@indevibe I am just pretty sure that hypothetically, if there was enough material available to build a big enough dish, so long as the system temperature is cooled down which is what actually makes the majority of the noise anyway (not the noise caught across the entire dish adding up to make it even hotter with radiation) then I think we can be more optimistic.
If used totally correctly and pointing directly at Earth, we could surely receive faint very noisy and ghostly co-channel tropospheric type short clips from Earth from a few decades gone by on a tv screen connected to the dish. I am pretty certain this could theoretically be achieved, but the dish can really be no bigger than 250,000 miles wide. Why? Because the photons coming from the outside of the dish at light speed would take noticeably longer to recover than the photons entering near the middle. The already noisy picture which look like a severely over exposed camera photo. You would get a very blurry clip with very echoed audio.
@eclipse369.
You kids still belief in that crap big bang
@AstroForumSpace
military radio broadcasts are stronger than commercial broadcasts, they should be detectable from 100ly away or so.
@ayylmaoo4486
Really makes you rethink what these ORCs that have recently been discovered might be.
@krist6074
Only thing this video is forgetting about is how radio waves fade out over distance, meaning they will not be noticable from the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. It's highly unlikely our radio waves even make it to our closest star. The only reason we still are in contact with Voyager 1 and 2 is because we know exactly what the signal is we are looking for, but really if we didn't, it wouldn't stand out around the other radio waves we receive from supernovas and other space objects.
@Datavinc
So, is it useless?
@avradio0b
@@Datavinc Perhaps more advanced societies may have ways of distinguishing signals from the background radiation? I imagine you could do a similar kind of tuning once you identify that a planet is in a goldilocks zone (which our telescopes are already sophisticated enough to do for nearby stars).