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”
Co-existing remedial rhymes
with verbal signs
Disseminating inner visions
to contrive
Broken pieces cobblestones
they pull me down
Redirection for protection
confessing
Animosity when your voice
grows faint
Submission at your feet they
feel the stings of complaint
Doing what it takes I'm
taking table crumbs
Dependence on the one
popularity is done
Expedient the main
ingredient as I grasp
For the hands of providence
to circumvent attacks
From the enemy though they
come against me
Will I listen to your voice
to infinity
Speak to me 'cause I long for
your grace
Show me things as I seek
your face
Here I am I'll do anything
Say want you want from me
A contradiction in my
directions got me guessing
Do you listen? not to
mention my phones off the
hook look
I took control of
my own path disregarded
your wrath
Stinky like a day without a
bath but
Internal convictions oppose
my addictions
To inventions less eternal
paternal
Affection from elevated places
smiling faces
Whisper love in aimless spaces
I hear your voice won't you
let me follow
Knees bent so we can shoot
the breeze signs I
can swallow
Keep the lines open like
fiber optic hot like
the tropic
If your driving this train
let me hop it
Say what you want from me
I'll give you everything
To you my life I bring
Oh won't you speak to me
Wha do you want from me
I'll give you everything
To you my life I bring
Oh won't you
speak to me
with verbal signs
Disseminating inner visions
to contrive
Broken pieces cobblestones
they pull me down
Redirection for protection
confessing
Animosity when your voice
grows faint
Submission at your feet they
feel the stings of complaint
Doing what it takes I'm
taking table crumbs
Dependence on the one
popularity is done
Expedient the main
ingredient as I grasp
For the hands of providence
to circumvent attacks
From the enemy though they
come against me
Will I listen to your voice
to infinity
Speak to me 'cause I long for
your grace
Show me things as I seek
your face
Here I am I'll do anything
Say want you want from me
A contradiction in my
directions got me guessing
Do you listen? not to
mention my phones off the
hook look
I took control of
my own path disregarded
your wrath
Stinky like a day without a
bath but
Internal convictions oppose
my addictions
To inventions less eternal
paternal
Affection from elevated places
smiling faces
Whisper love in aimless spaces
I hear your voice won't you
let me follow
Knees bent so we can shoot
the breeze signs I
can swallow
Keep the lines open like
fiber optic hot like
the tropic
If your driving this train
let me hop it
Say what you want from me
I'll give you everything
To you my life I bring
Oh won't you speak to me
Wha do you want from me
I'll give you everything
To you my life I bring
Oh won't you
speak to me
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Speak to Me Lyrics as written by Chris Blaney Cary Ryan Barlowe
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Capitol CMG Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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