| Kanye West – Street Lights Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i was walking down times square at like 3 in the morning the other night just smoking a cigarette and this song just completely came to my mind....after moving out of my parents house a couple years ago and moving to the city, i've adapted to life here so well that when i'm just walking i completely know where im headed but i dont think about it at all, i just walk. where im headed is complete instinct which i sorta think is what he means by all this...its like he's so set in his way of life, he knows exactly where he's gonna end up, but where he ends up isn't where he wants to be...and he explains this better in Welcome to Heartbreak.. where he talks about seeing people around him who enjoy the simplest but most needed joys in life, while he has whatever he's ever wanted but he misses out on these simple joys normal people have. so in street lights it gives off the notion that he's so adapted to his new way of life that he just runs on instinct, but subconsciously there's a different place he wants to be in. he wants to be in a different position he's in now. he wants to enjoy the simple things people do...i understand that bc ive adapted to this new way of life, that everything i do, i do instinctively and when i was walking in times square, i knew i was headed for home which was my destination but when i got there it wasn't home or where i truly wanted to be. i realized how much i missed my parents and my family and my old life when i was a kid, and i just thought about this song that i never really grasped the meaning of until that day. | |
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