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”
(Sometimes I wish I could just sew up my eyes so I don't have to witness and realize the monster that has become of me)
There's something wrong with a fatal attraction
For every action there's an opposite reaction
It's like a trip to the brain, trip to the brain
That drives me fucking, ah fucking insane, fucking insane, fucking insane!
It's a....
STRAIGHT HATE!
You're just a pawn in the game so fuck you
STRAIGHT HATE!
You're just a pawn in the game so fuck you
(To me there is nothing but a diluted state of reality cause hell has fucking frozen over for me)
And from my knees I beg and plead for salvation
I'll kick and scream with broken teeth until damnation
It's like a trip to the brain, trip to the brain
That drives me fucking, ah fucking insane, fucking insane, fucking insane!
It's a....
STRAIGHT HATE!
You're just a pawn in the game so fuck you
STRAIGHT HATE!
You're just a pawn in the game so fuck you
Come revolution, I'm down for the kill
Fingers on trigger to be used at will
Pledge your allegiance and die for the cause, the cause
We rise red, white, and blessed blue
STRAIGHT HATE!
You're just a pawn in the game so fuck you
STRAIGHT HATE!
You're just a pawn in the game so fuck you
There's something wrong with a fatal attraction
For every action there's an opposite reaction
It's like a trip to the brain, trip to the brain
That drives me fucking, ah fucking insane, fucking insane, fucking insane!
Pledge allegiance!
You better go!
Walk away, you never had a chance anyway
Walk away, you never had a fucking chance anyway
There's something wrong with a fatal attraction
For every action there's an opposite reaction
It's like a trip to the brain, trip to the brain
That drives me fucking, ah fucking insane, fucking insane, fucking insane!
It's a....
STRAIGHT HATE!
You're just a pawn in the game so fuck you
STRAIGHT HATE!
You're just a pawn in the game so fuck you
(To me there is nothing but a diluted state of reality cause hell has fucking frozen over for me)
And from my knees I beg and plead for salvation
I'll kick and scream with broken teeth until damnation
It's like a trip to the brain, trip to the brain
That drives me fucking, ah fucking insane, fucking insane, fucking insane!
It's a....
STRAIGHT HATE!
You're just a pawn in the game so fuck you
STRAIGHT HATE!
You're just a pawn in the game so fuck you
Come revolution, I'm down for the kill
Fingers on trigger to be used at will
Pledge your allegiance and die for the cause, the cause
We rise red, white, and blessed blue
STRAIGHT HATE!
You're just a pawn in the game so fuck you
STRAIGHT HATE!
You're just a pawn in the game so fuck you
There's something wrong with a fatal attraction
For every action there's an opposite reaction
It's like a trip to the brain, trip to the brain
That drives me fucking, ah fucking insane, fucking insane, fucking insane!
Pledge allegiance!
You better go!
Walk away, you never had a chance anyway
Walk away, you never had a fucking chance anyway
Lyrics submitted by Vinceke
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This song is like what the government thinks about the people who fight to save there a**! It is "f*ing insane." All the government has for soldiers is "straight hate". They expect them to put there life on the line for their country but it doesn't mean anything because they are not rich or a big-shot in politics or some bullst like that. "Walk away you never had a chance" is saying to me that what is the point of saying you are done fighting they will always find a way to fk you over in some way. This song is just a big FK YOU to the government!