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”
Despise
Maze, psychopathic daze
I create this waste
Back away from tangents, on the verge of drastic ways
Can't escape this place, I deny my face
Sweat gets in my eyes, I shout at all I despise
Hands on my face overbearing, I can't get out
Hands on my face overbearing, I can't get out
Lost, run at my own cost
Hearing laughter, scoffed
Searching from the rush, detached from such and such, bleak
Standing on my feet, listening, incomplete
I am not a dog, but I'm the one you dog
Hands on my face overbearing, I can't get out
Hands on my face overbearing, I can't get out
Never ever surrender, I won't allow it
Never ever surrender, I won't allow it
Never ever surrender, I won't allow it
Never ever surrender, despise
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
Despise
Despise
Despise
Despise
Cut me, show me, enter, I am
Willing and able and never any danger to myself
Knowledge in my pain, knowledge in my pain
Or was my tolerance a phase? Empathy, out of my way
I can't die
I can't die
I can't die
I can't die
Never ever surrender, I won't allow it
Never ever surrender, I won't allow it
Never ever surrender, I won't allow it
Never ever surrender, despise
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
Despise
Despise
Despise
Despise
Maze, psychopathic daze
I create this waste
Back away from tangents, on the verge of drastic ways
Can't escape this place, I deny my face
Sweat gets in my eyes, I shout at all I despise
Hands on my face overbearing, I can't get out
Hands on my face overbearing, I can't get out
Lost, run at my own cost
Hearing laughter, scoffed
Searching from the rush, detached from such and such, bleak
Standing on my feet, listening, incomplete
I am not a dog, but I'm the one you dog
Hands on my face overbearing, I can't get out
Hands on my face overbearing, I can't get out
Never ever surrender, I won't allow it
Never ever surrender, I won't allow it
Never ever surrender, I won't allow it
Never ever surrender, despise
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
Despise
Despise
Despise
Despise
Cut me, show me, enter, I am
Willing and able and never any danger to myself
Knowledge in my pain, knowledge in my pain
Or was my tolerance a phase? Empathy, out of my way
I can't die
I can't die
I can't die
I can't die
Never ever surrender, I won't allow it
Never ever surrender, I won't allow it
Never ever surrender, I won't allow it
Never ever surrender, despise
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
Despise
Despise
Despise
Despise
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