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”
rain goes perfect with a nosdam mixtape
the last streetlights stay on well after dawn
kings fall to pawns he dropped the needle let the song say it
the kind of morgue with a gong to tell you when
but the room's rules will bend and the staff will make you laugh
my dad wore this face in old photographs
calico cats out stare me from behind a junkyard fence
high on khat i let my stare go soft but pretend it's not
when i'm eyed i tounge my bottom teeth
and look at the sidewalk in front of me
and my tennis shoes go in and out of the frame
another sleuth footed empty Y
walking on goose eggs in the mission
swap meet brown 31 fishnet hat cocked to the right
i only played chess once in my life and i lost
looks like a sky for shoeing horses under
looks like a good sky to die under
the last streetlights stay on well after dawn
kings fall to pawns he dropped the needle let the song say it
the kind of morgue with a gong to tell you when
but the room's rules will bend and the staff will make you laugh
my dad wore this face in old photographs
calico cats out stare me from behind a junkyard fence
high on khat i let my stare go soft but pretend it's not
when i'm eyed i tounge my bottom teeth
and look at the sidewalk in front of me
and my tennis shoes go in and out of the frame
another sleuth footed empty Y
walking on goose eggs in the mission
swap meet brown 31 fishnet hat cocked to the right
i only played chess once in my life and i lost
looks like a sky for shoeing horses under
looks like a good sky to die under
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Huh. Here I had thought it was "no style mixtape" for the longest time.
That first line is so perfect. This was one of the songs I was most excited for on the new album.
Some possible corrections:
"Kings fall to pawns, he dropped the needle let the song say it" (goes with the chess line later on)
"But the room's rules bend and the staff will make you laugh"
"When I'm eyed I tongue my bottom teeth" (when someone is staring at him)
"Swap meet brown 31 fishnet hat cocked to the right" (he got the hat at a swap meet)
Here's a great video of this song, maybe even better than the album version:
youtube.com/watch
Instead of 'i don't try to let my scare ghosts off but pretend it's not'
I think he says 'i don't got to let my stare go soft but pretend it's not'
but I'm not sure. I definitely hear a 'soft' and 'got' though.
"High on pot I let my stare go soft but pretend it's not."
In the Alopecia: The Demos!! version I'm 99% sure that is what he says, and I'm pretty sure it is the same in the final album version too. I don't know why these other people came up with "khat" and "cot".
I understand that khat is also a form of drug, but on the demo's he MOST DEFINITELY says POT, not khat, and it's the same in the mastered version.
wow.
Benladen, if Yoni has contempt for himself, I don't think it's over his musical career.
this song is about perspective. like james said, that first line IS so perfect because it gives the whole meaning away. try to imagine the lyrics with the word looks in italics.
the first line gives the song away.
i think the last line doesn't have to do with his failure, but his success..
how the fuck does one shoe horses under the sky?