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”
The phoenix he helped create
Out of control boy without a dad
Shot the gun that startled my life
While I drove him with a forty-five
Friends for years, images in red
Blew off his own motherfucking head
Confidence, death, insecurity
Your men fall unrealized
Unrealized, unrealized
Making a decision of death
While everyone around you plead
That you fly in peace
I hope, my friend
A man can't avoid what he's meant to do
When he's meant to do it
Even if he doesn't really want to
My memories are of fun and friendship
Of weakness within the strength of youth
For reasons undefined, reasons undefined
Reasons undefined, reasons undefined
Friends for years, images in red
Blew off his own motherfucking head
Confidence, death, insecurity
Your men fall unrealized
Don't you realize evil lives in the motherfucking skin?
Don't you realize that evil lives in the motherfucking skin?
Don't you realize that evil lives in the motherfucking skin?
Don't you realize that evil lives in the skin?
Don't you realize evil lives in the motherfucking skin?
Don't you realize that evil lives in the motherfucking skin?
Why the fuck did you take him away from us, you motherfucker-fucker-fucker-fucker
Out of control boy without a dad
Shot the gun that startled my life
While I drove him with a forty-five
Friends for years, images in red
Blew off his own motherfucking head
Confidence, death, insecurity
Your men fall unrealized
Unrealized, unrealized
Making a decision of death
While everyone around you plead
That you fly in peace
I hope, my friend
A man can't avoid what he's meant to do
When he's meant to do it
Even if he doesn't really want to
My memories are of fun and friendship
Of weakness within the strength of youth
For reasons undefined, reasons undefined
Reasons undefined, reasons undefined
Friends for years, images in red
Blew off his own motherfucking head
Confidence, death, insecurity
Your men fall unrealized
Don't you realize evil lives in the motherfucking skin?
Don't you realize that evil lives in the motherfucking skin?
Don't you realize that evil lives in the motherfucking skin?
Don't you realize that evil lives in the skin?
Don't you realize evil lives in the motherfucking skin?
Don't you realize that evil lives in the motherfucking skin?
Why the fuck did you take him away from us, you motherfucker-fucker-fucker-fucker
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