The Meaning Behind "Vindicated" The speaker in "Vindicated" by Dashboard Confessional is the teenager inside all of us, and this understanding is vital to understanding the meaning of the song. The contradictory lines (8-13) and the general sense of confusion help us better relate to the way we felt during adolescence. Perplexed and unsure of ourselves, we may not really know which way it is going. But despite everything, we are right, precisely because we don't want to be wrong. In the first verse we are fascinated by hope, because it "hangs on a thread" in front of us, not entirely within our reach, because even if we are aware of it, we do not have a clear idea of ​​what it means to have hope (1). This is therefore said to be like a “slowly turning redemption” (2). Again, this is because we don't fully appreciate redemption. We can see it before us, in many different lights, and so turn, but we don't really understand what makes redemption what it is. Because we do not understand the concepts of hope and redemption, they “bind” and “hypnotize” us (5, 6). We spend a lot of time in our youth...