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”
All this noise is making me nervous
I feel every slammed door and drunken laugh
Sometimes there's no room for breathing
Take me to a colony and leave me in Antarctica
The living germs keep these buildings alive
And every day we feed them with our dirt and rotten memories
The front window in the house his mother left him
Is just another beacon in a sea of dark yellow
This place speaks to him, it's got its own language
Cold comfort through the gill cracked plaster
Looks at him with eyes in paint blisters
Squeezes music through cheap transistors
Voices of mothers with their prisoners for brothers
And the bug-eyed little creatures terrifying stupid teachers
Who then take it out on weaklings, spawning killing spree control freaks
Who get married in their prisons to abused lonely women
And I'm clean and I'm clinging
Like I've never held on to anything in my life
I'm clean and I'm clinging to you
And I'm clean and I'm clinging
Like I've never held on to anything in my life
I'm clean and I'm clinging to you
And I'm clean and I'm clinging
Like I've never held on to anything in my life
I'm clean and I'm clinging to you
And I'm clean and I'm clinging
Like I've never held on to anything in my life
I'm clean and I'm clinging to you
I feel every slammed door and drunken laugh
Sometimes there's no room for breathing
Take me to a colony and leave me in Antarctica
The living germs keep these buildings alive
And every day we feed them with our dirt and rotten memories
The front window in the house his mother left him
Is just another beacon in a sea of dark yellow
This place speaks to him, it's got its own language
Cold comfort through the gill cracked plaster
Looks at him with eyes in paint blisters
Squeezes music through cheap transistors
Voices of mothers with their prisoners for brothers
And the bug-eyed little creatures terrifying stupid teachers
Who then take it out on weaklings, spawning killing spree control freaks
Who get married in their prisons to abused lonely women
And I'm clean and I'm clinging
Like I've never held on to anything in my life
I'm clean and I'm clinging to you
And I'm clean and I'm clinging
Like I've never held on to anything in my life
I'm clean and I'm clinging to you
And I'm clean and I'm clinging
Like I've never held on to anything in my life
I'm clean and I'm clinging to you
And I'm clean and I'm clinging
Like I've never held on to anything in my life
I'm clean and I'm clinging to you
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