This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
wind passes right through my skin as i fall down, this furious speed will only destroy me..
crippling and defastating momentum, approaching maximum velocity.
and this is how it's going to be, the point of it all, 'cause this is what was meant for me, recklessly i fall.
hulking, smashing, i come crashing, nothing like when i was small.
i am unstoppable, i am the cannonball.
that feeble coward that you knew, has undergone an overhaul,
i am unstoppable, i am the cannonball.
thirty-two feet per second i increase, as the exponents will multiply.
i'll never stop to look back behind me, cutting through the bright blue sky.
and this is how it's meant to be, untethered i will soar.
i'll barrel towards the earth below, it's what i was made for.
and everyone will say its just an accident, like some mishap or a tragedy.
i think that failure has a purpose, and i don't believe its chance if i fall.
and i know that if i ever do fall, he will catch me.
and if he ever lets me fall down, for the good of those who believe him,
he will make me into a cannonball.
unblemished, and faultless. a burning luminescence.
unequaled precision, beyond your scope of vision.
cannonball.
crippling and defastating momentum, approaching maximum velocity.
and this is how it's going to be, the point of it all, 'cause this is what was meant for me, recklessly i fall.
hulking, smashing, i come crashing, nothing like when i was small.
i am unstoppable, i am the cannonball.
that feeble coward that you knew, has undergone an overhaul,
i am unstoppable, i am the cannonball.
thirty-two feet per second i increase, as the exponents will multiply.
i'll never stop to look back behind me, cutting through the bright blue sky.
and this is how it's meant to be, untethered i will soar.
i'll barrel towards the earth below, it's what i was made for.
and everyone will say its just an accident, like some mishap or a tragedy.
i think that failure has a purpose, and i don't believe its chance if i fall.
and i know that if i ever do fall, he will catch me.
and if he ever lets me fall down, for the good of those who believe him,
he will make me into a cannonball.
unblemished, and faultless. a burning luminescence.
unequaled precision, beyond your scope of vision.
cannonball.
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hulking smashing i come crashing i think it says that we should be willing to take a fall if God can use it to open a hole in someone.
One very inportant thing everyone must understand is that God does not cause are falure just to make something good out of it, but if we do fall because of are own disloyalty not Gods punishment or wrath toward us then God will pick us up and help us,
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Love the final stanza of this song Unblemished - perfect beyond your imagination ...precision beyond your scope of vision - and useful beyond what you were previously