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”
One two
One two three four
I'll kiss that away
Both of them swam from a northern blue sky
Smile on their faces they entered their doom like they knew
If their world should end they won't care about that anyway
I jade the water and i burn the fire
Ooh, i burn the fire
Nuclear chemicals making their doom like you knew,
If the world should end you won't care about that anyway.
Maybe that's the way you live your life but i know,
Life, it don't always live that way.
Jade,
A shade of pain and then we die.
Jade,
A shade of pain and then we die.
Jade,
A shade of pain and then we die.
But it's just the way
Maybe that's the way you live you life but i know
You live, your, life
Life, you see it don't always live that way
Jade,
A shade of pain and then we die.
Jade,
A shade of pain and then we die, oh why
Jade,
A shade of pain and then we die.
Maybe that's the way
Maybe that's the way, but it don't always live that way
Now that i understand the beauty of what they've left to hand me down.
When you need a place to live and no one understands you.
And all you want to do.
Is to cry out loud.
But you don't know how.
No way, no-one,
No-one understands.
The hand that strikes.
When just a touch of love is all the problem needed,
And when you hurt someone so much that still they die loving you.
And all you want to do,
Is to cry out loud.
But you don't know how,
Jade
Jade
A shade of pain and then the memory dies.
Jade
Oh no no, and then, and then we die die, die, die
A shade of pain and then we die
Jade
But you don't know how,
Until you try some how,
Jade
Like you don't know how
Jade
But you'll try somehow.
Jade, and then we die.
We will find a way,
Letting the sun go down.
Maybe we'll find a way,
Holding the sun.
We will find a way,
Letting our life go by.
I tell you we'll find a way,
Holding the sun
The sun
One two three four
I'll kiss that away
Both of them swam from a northern blue sky
Smile on their faces they entered their doom like they knew
If their world should end they won't care about that anyway
I jade the water and i burn the fire
Ooh, i burn the fire
Nuclear chemicals making their doom like you knew,
If the world should end you won't care about that anyway.
Maybe that's the way you live your life but i know,
Life, it don't always live that way.
Jade,
A shade of pain and then we die.
Jade,
A shade of pain and then we die.
Jade,
A shade of pain and then we die.
But it's just the way
Maybe that's the way you live you life but i know
You live, your, life
Life, you see it don't always live that way
Jade,
A shade of pain and then we die.
Jade,
A shade of pain and then we die, oh why
Jade,
A shade of pain and then we die.
Maybe that's the way
Maybe that's the way, but it don't always live that way
Now that i understand the beauty of what they've left to hand me down.
When you need a place to live and no one understands you.
And all you want to do.
Is to cry out loud.
But you don't know how.
No way, no-one,
No-one understands.
The hand that strikes.
When just a touch of love is all the problem needed,
And when you hurt someone so much that still they die loving you.
And all you want to do,
Is to cry out loud.
But you don't know how,
Jade
Jade
A shade of pain and then the memory dies.
Jade
Oh no no, and then, and then we die die, die, die
A shade of pain and then we die
Jade
But you don't know how,
Until you try some how,
Jade
Like you don't know how
Jade
But you'll try somehow.
Jade, and then we die.
We will find a way,
Letting the sun go down.
Maybe we'll find a way,
Holding the sun.
We will find a way,
Letting our life go by.
I tell you we'll find a way,
Holding the sun
The sun
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