Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Seal your wide shores
With no one in between
You feel your fading dial
You know someone's happened
And you shouldn't feed these things
But let's go
Ah la la la la la
Fading away your nights
You fade to white
Fading away your nights
You fade to white
Fading away your nights
You fade to white
Fading away your nights
You fade to white
Lay me down as I go to the store
Sorrow ate me, I'm not me anymore
Play these heavens one more time
I'm not yours and I'm not mine
Fly a ladder around
Fly a ladder around
Fly a ladder around
Fly a ladder around
Fly a ladder around
Fly a ladder around
Fly a ladder around
Fly a ladder around
(Fly a ladder around)
Rails succumb to run, get up
(Fly a ladder around)
Hear your
(Fly a ladder around)
Fates that again reload
(Fly a ladder around)
Rails succumb to run, get up
(Fly a ladder around)
Hear your
(Fly a ladder around)
Fates that again reload
(Fly a ladder around)
With no one in between
You feel your fading dial
You know someone's happened
And you shouldn't feed these things
But let's go
Ah la la la la la
Fading away your nights
You fade to white
Fading away your nights
You fade to white
Fading away your nights
You fade to white
Fading away your nights
You fade to white
Lay me down as I go to the store
Sorrow ate me, I'm not me anymore
Play these heavens one more time
I'm not yours and I'm not mine
Fly a ladder around
Fly a ladder around
Fly a ladder around
Fly a ladder around
Fly a ladder around
Fly a ladder around
Fly a ladder around
Fly a ladder around
(Fly a ladder around)
Rails succumb to run, get up
(Fly a ladder around)
Hear your
(Fly a ladder around)
Fates that again reload
(Fly a ladder around)
Rails succumb to run, get up
(Fly a ladder around)
Hear your
(Fly a ladder around)
Fates that again reload
(Fly a ladder around)
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fuck, this is good music
I´ll say it right here right now, and this will hold true until the day my spirit leaves my body. This is the greatest song I have ever heard and will ever hear. It´s such an abstract song lyrically, I won´t even try to interprate it, but The lyrics speak to a part of me that is beyond my comprehension yet understands the words perfectly. The music makes me lose myself within the song. Then the backing vocals, and the subtle yet haunting "oohs" kick in and brings the song to an amazing crushendo.
This is a beautiful song. John Frusciante is the best guiarist of music today
it makes me feel like i can float in the air kind of thing. like im here but not here, if you catch my drigt???
lol..i catch your drift, i love JF
i noticed that the song sounds both happy and sad at the same time. i like that a lot.
I think John really speaks about spirits and inexplainable thoughts, To Record only water for ten days is supposedly an album john was told that spirits were telling him pretending was a tape recorder, and to record the sound of water for ten days or something like that... So yeah, it really doesn't make any sense. But it's hella beautiful, and somewhat haunting.
oh sorry i forgot to put the d on would.
did anything actually happen to you on the 19th feb.
now john woulnt approve of that horrible writting woul he. i think i might try to catch him with my ladder. 19th feb watch out