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”
It's gonna bite today
(Right)
To open a can of pain
(Wrong)
Sun scorched and blistering
(Run)
Do you know that it's all
(Gone)
Kiss my eyes shut to bash it in
It's just another payment
To how we live, how we dream, how we breed
Low rent up in the basement
The sky conforms to the surface
What's the purpose, everything is worthless
I feel a crack in the structure
It's time bleed through suffer
And I fall into myself
(And I fall myself, I fall)
I fall, I fall, I fall
Life keeps on pushing me under
(I am)
Ripping my whole world asunder
(I can)
Death is what keeps me in motion
(Will I)
Drown in this pain like an ocean
I'm falling down again
(Now)
Into the ground again
(Low)
Don't tell me what to do when I take you
And I'm gonna make you
You had in a moment what the rest of us
Need to believe isn't hopeless
Take a look at the scoreboard it's 1 nothing them
So I guess you need move more
We'll make a crack in the sun
If it feeds you the answer
And I fall into myself
(And I fall myself, I fall)
I fall, I fall, I fall
Life keeps on pushing me under
(I am)
Ripping my whole world asunder
(I can)
Death is what keeps me in motion
(Will I)
Drown in this pain like an ocean
All in my head but the waiting is over
Your thoughts can't tread into my disclosure
I'm just a face, nameless and silent
I'm such a waste that's why
And I can't erase I'm feeling all this
And I cannot frame and hide behind this
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down again
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down again
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down again
Life keeps on pushing me under
[Incomprehensible]
Ripping my whole world asunder
[Incomprehensible]
Death is what keeps me in motion
[Incomprehensible]
Drown in this pain like an ocean, kill
(Right)
To open a can of pain
(Wrong)
Sun scorched and blistering
(Run)
Do you know that it's all
(Gone)
Kiss my eyes shut to bash it in
It's just another payment
To how we live, how we dream, how we breed
Low rent up in the basement
The sky conforms to the surface
What's the purpose, everything is worthless
I feel a crack in the structure
It's time bleed through suffer
And I fall into myself
(And I fall myself, I fall)
I fall, I fall, I fall
Life keeps on pushing me under
(I am)
Ripping my whole world asunder
(I can)
Death is what keeps me in motion
(Will I)
Drown in this pain like an ocean
I'm falling down again
(Now)
Into the ground again
(Low)
Don't tell me what to do when I take you
And I'm gonna make you
You had in a moment what the rest of us
Need to believe isn't hopeless
Take a look at the scoreboard it's 1 nothing them
So I guess you need move more
We'll make a crack in the sun
If it feeds you the answer
And I fall into myself
(And I fall myself, I fall)
I fall, I fall, I fall
Life keeps on pushing me under
(I am)
Ripping my whole world asunder
(I can)
Death is what keeps me in motion
(Will I)
Drown in this pain like an ocean
All in my head but the waiting is over
Your thoughts can't tread into my disclosure
I'm just a face, nameless and silent
I'm such a waste that's why
And I can't erase I'm feeling all this
And I cannot frame and hide behind this
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down again
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down again
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down again
Life keeps on pushing me under
[Incomprehensible]
Ripping my whole world asunder
[Incomprehensible]
Death is what keeps me in motion
[Incomprehensible]
Drown in this pain like an ocean, kill
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