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”
How can I explain to you the picture of this avenue?
The rain falls on the street outside my window on this Thursday afternoon.
I sit alone inside these sinful walls I've lived inside.
So many lies have lived and died; none so much as the one I lived with you.
I see you on the highway a thousand miles away.
Rain falls through your hair and cheeks.
Tears and mascara streaks.
Your face reflected in the glass.
Lines in the pavement go past just like the lines around your eyes that held away to an endless sad goodbye.
Everybody that I know said I should've just let you go.
You run from everything, you see.
Hurt the ones you love like me.
But here I sit and picture you with fingers worn your shirts on, too.
Your heart's so big and broke in two.
Your mind drifting through all you knew.
Afraid to love; afraid to lose;
Afraid to start; afraid to choose;
Afraid to live; afraid to die;
Afraid to let these days go sail by;
Afraid to change or stay the same;
Afraid to lose yourself again;
Afraid of the truth that love could cause you so much pain.
I know.
I felt it, too.
Sweetheart, I wish it wasn't true.
The rain falls on the street outside my window on this Thursday afternoon.
I sit alone inside these sinful walls I've lived inside.
So many lies have lived and died; none so much as the one I lived with you.
I see you on the highway a thousand miles away.
Rain falls through your hair and cheeks.
Tears and mascara streaks.
Your face reflected in the glass.
Lines in the pavement go past just like the lines around your eyes that held away to an endless sad goodbye.
Everybody that I know said I should've just let you go.
You run from everything, you see.
Hurt the ones you love like me.
But here I sit and picture you with fingers worn your shirts on, too.
Your heart's so big and broke in two.
Your mind drifting through all you knew.
Afraid to love; afraid to lose;
Afraid to start; afraid to choose;
Afraid to live; afraid to die;
Afraid to let these days go sail by;
Afraid to change or stay the same;
Afraid to lose yourself again;
Afraid of the truth that love could cause you so much pain.
I know.
I felt it, too.
Sweetheart, I wish it wasn't true.
Lyrics submitted by eclipse720
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so i used to think that this song was a song he wrote to a girl with whom he used to be in love but isn't anymore, and this was like his confession saying they both knew it and he's just saying it, even though it's really sad.
but now i kind of think the opposite. it sounds to me like mikel is courting a girl who has a boyfriend, but she really seems to take a shine to him (mikel), and so she is conflicted and doesn't know what to do. the "lie i've lived with you" could be the affair, a guise of a relationship but not a real one because she's still unsure. the whole second stanza is just about how sad she is because of the internal conflict. then in the third stanza, he says "everybody that i know tells me just to let it go" because he has had a series of relationships that meant nothing to him but a lot to the girl, but now he's sitting alone and picturing this girl, implying she's different, which is the only reason he cares that much about the predicament she's in. "you're heart's so big and broke in two" means she's divided; "mind drifting through all you knew," as in she's trying to discern what the best thing to do is.
the whole last part, about being afraid, i think is the best evidence of my interpretation. she's afraid to love this new guy (mikel); afraid to lose, in that she's got something stable now she can rely on and if she leaves him for mikel then she could very well lose that or both; afraid to start a new relationship; afraid to choose which one to be with; etc., and afraid of the truth, that love, for this new attraction, can cause you so much pain. he "felt it too," the painful loving yearning; and he also wishes the circumstances weren't the way they are.
there do seem to be alternate versions of this song, including slightly different lyrics (like "you run from everything they say, hurt the ones you love blindly" and "darlin i wish it wasn't true"), but the meaning doesn't change. still, i can't wait for a studio version of this song. one of the most gorgeous songs i've ever heard.