This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I found it difficult
To be a storytelling failure
For all those years
Living was a challenge
That caught me so off-balance
And passed me by
Repeatedly, I stared my future in the face
She walks away
Her silhouette confirming my worst predictions
She walks away
Hope is just four disconnected letters
Combined and put together
By a disconnected man who missed the point
My life was just a promise
That I uttered, then I broke it
And admitted as we all went up in flames
So I made a resolution that I'd pay back planet earth
I would send out this faded portrait
Maybe we would all live on
We'd soar on
I waited for a miracle
On a planet based on push and pull
And nothing changed
And one day, someone spoke inside of me
"Young man, rise and make your mark"
So today I will be free
With no one there to see
With no one there to see
So I made a resolution that I'd pay back planet earth
I would send out this faded portrait
Maybe we would all live on
We'd soar on
So I strapped it to a rocket and I sent it into space
Praying someday you would find it
Maybe we would all live on
We'd soar on (x3)
To be a storytelling failure
For all those years
Living was a challenge
That caught me so off-balance
And passed me by
Repeatedly, I stared my future in the face
She walks away
Her silhouette confirming my worst predictions
She walks away
Hope is just four disconnected letters
Combined and put together
By a disconnected man who missed the point
My life was just a promise
That I uttered, then I broke it
And admitted as we all went up in flames
So I made a resolution that I'd pay back planet earth
I would send out this faded portrait
Maybe we would all live on
We'd soar on
I waited for a miracle
On a planet based on push and pull
And nothing changed
And one day, someone spoke inside of me
"Young man, rise and make your mark"
So today I will be free
With no one there to see
With no one there to see
So I made a resolution that I'd pay back planet earth
I would send out this faded portrait
Maybe we would all live on
We'd soar on
So I strapped it to a rocket and I sent it into space
Praying someday you would find it
Maybe we would all live on
We'd soar on (x3)
Lyrics submitted by eltroyo11
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I think it goes: Hope is just four disconnected letters
This song almost made me cry. I LOVE THESE GUYS!
I think it goes: Hope is just four disconnected letters
This song almost made me cry. I LOVE THESE GUYS!
The correct lyrics for the EP version are as follows:
i found it difficult to be a storytelling failure for all those years
living was a challenge that caught me so off-balance and passed me by
repeatedly, i stared my future in the face she walked away her silhouette confirming my worst predictions she walks away
hope is just four disconnected letters combined and put together by a disconnected man who missed the point my life was just a promise that i uttered, then i broke it and admitted as we all went up in flames
so i made a resolution that i'd pay back planet earth and i would send out this faded portrait maybe we would all live on we'd soar on
so i strapped it to a rocket and i sent it into space praying someday you would find it maybe we would all live on we'd soar on
in all my years existing as a storytelling failure for all those years
i waited for a miracle on a planet based on push and pull and nothing changed
and one day, someone spoke inside of me: "young man, rise and make your mark" so today i will be free with no one there to see with no one there to see
hope is just four disconnected letters combined and put together by a disconnected man who missed the point my life was just a promise that i uttered, then i broke it and admitted as we all went up in flames
(so i made a resolution...)
so i made a resolution that i'd pay back planet earth and i would send out this faded portrait maybe we would all live on we'd soar on
so i strapped it to a rocket and i sent it into space praying someday you would find it maybe we would all live on we'd soar on
so i made a resolution that i'd pay back planet earth and i would send out this faded portrait maybe we would all live on we'd soar on
so i strapped it to a rocket and i sent it into space praying someday you would find it maybe we would all live on we'd soar on
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For some reason, this song just really hit me and almost brought me to tears.
Powerspace truly is amazing
i have absolutely no clue what it means... but if you guys like simply hearing this song.. imagine it live... the entire crowd gets so into it because it is soooo upbeat i have seen em twice and they have awesome stage presence.. although the vocals could use a little work.. they're still good =]
I think it's about having all these plans for the future, but then when the future came it turned out to be something he was never hoping for. And now he's basically trying to change that and make his mark on the earth... I'm pretty sure it's something along those lines.
I also kinda thought it could be about how our world's falling apart. Like due to poverty, global warming and such. But that's probably incorrect.
i love this song. powerspace is pure brilliance.
this songggg is amazinggg
and i agree, it's like his hope for something is destroyed for whatever reason. i'm just confused about the title >.