This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
kid i held you with these arms that felt so hard
you kept your chin up and i held my guard
made a prison bed from a life i never led
let me correct these mistakes you delight in
god i hope i get it right / i've been practicing
kid i hope it holds some fraction of its feeling
if you keep believing then i'll keep on being
a ghost in his prison bed short sheeted and shook dead
looking at love he still hasn't made yet
that i couldn't make to you / baby, i can barely move
kid you were wrong / that wasn't me in that song
you write the lie you'd like to be
when your life feels like a book you wouldn't read
kid i've lived through others i made myself so small
i lived through a record one summer last fall
the singer said something i could only feel
i saw him this morning he still looked real real
god i need him here tonight
i just know he'd get this right
kid i'm a mess
if it looked good you're seeing things i guess
i changed my mind so many times / i'm a strobe light
flickering freak. the baby of the week.
i'm starting to see someone i could never be
kid what went wrong? / we had it all now it's all gone
i blew my mind out / now it's your turn to find out
what we all need
what we all mean
i'm starting to see someone i don't want to be
you kept your chin up and i held my guard
made a prison bed from a life i never led
let me correct these mistakes you delight in
god i hope i get it right / i've been practicing
kid i hope it holds some fraction of its feeling
if you keep believing then i'll keep on being
a ghost in his prison bed short sheeted and shook dead
looking at love he still hasn't made yet
that i couldn't make to you / baby, i can barely move
kid you were wrong / that wasn't me in that song
you write the lie you'd like to be
when your life feels like a book you wouldn't read
kid i've lived through others i made myself so small
i lived through a record one summer last fall
the singer said something i could only feel
i saw him this morning he still looked real real
god i need him here tonight
i just know he'd get this right
kid i'm a mess
if it looked good you're seeing things i guess
i changed my mind so many times / i'm a strobe light
flickering freak. the baby of the week.
i'm starting to see someone i could never be
kid what went wrong? / we had it all now it's all gone
i blew my mind out / now it's your turn to find out
what we all need
what we all mean
i'm starting to see someone i don't want to be
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"a ghost in his prison bed short sheeted and shook dead " i love that line, i havnt really listened i mean really listened to this song but i wil soon, i like this song theres something about it, iOW something bit me on the neck, vampire? maybe, o maybe just a mosquito i guess ill never know okay off topic ill post again later "im starting to see"
This is a great song. The line "when your life feels like a book you wouldn't read " is great. I think this song kindof shows that not everything blake writes about actually happened. That or it did and he wrote this song to mess with me... I'll never know!
love the idea about living through a record, ive definitly had a record be the only thing that keeps me going before
I think it's about Blake being other people through his music. When he writes music, he often writes as a character, then people believe he is that person, but he never was. Kids (or maybe even him) listen to music, and it makes them feel better, and they relate to the singer and love him for feeling like they do, but really the singer never felt it in the first place. I think it's kind of an apology in a way. That kind of makes sense right?
That makes perfect sense, and I couldn't have said it better myself.
"Flickering freak" I wonder if that is a callback to "flicker like a freak through a sleepless week" from the Jawbreaker song Millions.