Monday Morning is an Christian alternative rock band from North Carolina, U… Read Full Bio ↴Monday Morning is an Christian alternative rock band from North Carolina, U.S. In 2005 they released their major label debut through Selectric Records, Fool's Paradise, and are known for their number 1 hit song "Wonder of It All (Next Year)".

In high school, lead vocalist Derek Stipe met Kent Rector, who played drums. Soon Rector, Stipe and his brother Kevin began jamming together. After playing with a few other people, the group eventually narrowed down to four members: the Stipe brothers, Rector, and Justin Blythe who they knew from their church. Lead singer Stipe said, "We thought we kinda had something special, so we started playing out, getting better, and it just exploded from there."

They decided on a band name, "Monday Morning", because it was "a dose of reality." Stipe noted, "When you confront the world, yourself, and everything around you. No more games, masks, or half truths. That is the boldness we want our music to have." In 2001 they released the three-track Monday Morning EP, followed by Blind in 2002.

Break Away
Monday Morning Lyrics

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there's no description stated for what I'm feeling lately
You're my prescription maybe
for my disease of emptiness
my life was overrated
until You invaded
now nothing's complicated
just You and me and love

so break away
break away
we'll break away

so I've been thinking maybe we'd leave this world behind
and run to a distant nowhere
and live off love alone
Your love was suffocated
now it's excavated
and nothing's complicated
just You and me and love

here I'm standing
watching, waiting

for someone, something
to come and take me

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Monday Morning's song Break Away speak of a feeling of emptiness that the singer has been experiencing lately. He/she implies that the emptiness is like a disease that requires a prescription, which in this context, is the person that they are singing about. The person has invaded the singer's life, and now nothing is complicated because it's just the two of them and love. The singer seems to have found a sense of completeness now that they have someone to love and who loves them in return.

In the next verse, the singer implies that they want to leave the world behind and run to a distant nowhere, where they can live off love alone. This verse suggests that the singer wants to escape from the realities of life with the person they love. They believe that their love was suffocated, but now it's been excavated, implying that it was buried and has now been dug out. The singer is standing, watching, and waiting for someone or something to come and take them, but that's unnecessary now that they have the person they love beside them.

Overall, the song Break Away is a love song about finding someone who fills the emptiness in one's life. The lyrics convey a sense of joy and completeness now that the singer has found the one they love.

Line by Line Meaning

there's no description stated for what I'm feeling lately
I cannot put into words the emotions I am experiencing recently

You're my prescription maybe
You are the remedy that could cure me

for my disease of emptiness
The void within me is my affliction

my life was overrated
I had thought my existence had more value than it truly did

until You invaded
But then you entered my life

now nothing's complicated
And everything is now simple

just You and me and love
All that is left is us and our affection

so break away
Let us depart

break away
Let us depart

we'll break away
Together we will leave

so I've been thinking maybe we'd leave this world behind
I am considering if we should abandon this reality