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”
We'll correct collegiate mistakes, a shower of formal ideals, completely soused.
The hearts on our sleeves as they drowned we could hear them screaming.
Oh what a tragic way to see our final days.
I attempt to talk up the town: The answers are in the arches of the
20th Century Towers and in comfortable cars in motion.
And yet it still remains, this incessant refrain:
You're just like the rest. Your restlessness makes you lazy.
Keeping busy is just wasting time and I've wasted what little he gave me. (all around)
I know the conscious choice was crystal clear, to clean the slate of former years:
When I sang softly in your ear and tied these arms around you.
The hearts on our sleeves as they drowned we could hear them screaming.
Oh what a tragic way to see our final days.
I attempt to talk up the town: The answers are in the arches of the
20th Century Towers and in comfortable cars in motion.
And yet it still remains, this incessant refrain:
You're just like the rest. Your restlessness makes you lazy.
Keeping busy is just wasting time and I've wasted what little he gave me. (all around)
I know the conscious choice was crystal clear, to clean the slate of former years:
When I sang softly in your ear and tied these arms around you.
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