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”
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh yeah
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh yeah
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh yeah
You insult me in my home, you're forgiven this time
Things go well, your eyes dilate, you shake, and "I'm high"
Look in my eyes deep and watch the clouds change with time
Twenty hours won't print my picture milk carton size
Carton size
Carton size
Carton size
Call me up congratulations ain't the real why
There's no pressure besides brilliance let's say by day nine
Endless corporate ignorance lets me control time
By the way, by the way, by the way, by the way
Once again you see an in
Discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you'd kindly gurgle
Out a date for me
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh yeah
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh yeah
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh yeah
Now the body of one soul I adore wants to die
You have always told me you'd not live past twenty-five
I say stay long enough to repay all who cause strife
Once again you see an in
Discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you'd kindly gurgle
Out a date for me
Once again you see an in
Discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you'd kindly gurgle
Out a date for me
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh yeah
Oh oh oh oh oh
I bear true and an existing witness
To this barrel of monkeys
A self-proclaimed immoral success
Perfected by each whereof
Individually deadly, and equally so
And spread about the surrendered troops
For even thousands of miles
Will not tear apart their communication
Or the lack thereof
Vultures, liars, thieves
Each proclaim their innocence
In no suggestion or rhyme
Your weapon is contained
In the wrecking of the keeping the desired effect
The breaking of the spirit thwarts the whole being
Your weapon is guilt
Your weapon is guilt
Your weapon is guilt
Guilt
Oh yeah
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh yeah
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh yeah
You insult me in my home, you're forgiven this time
Things go well, your eyes dilate, you shake, and "I'm high"
Look in my eyes deep and watch the clouds change with time
Twenty hours won't print my picture milk carton size
Carton size
Carton size
Carton size
Call me up congratulations ain't the real why
There's no pressure besides brilliance let's say by day nine
Endless corporate ignorance lets me control time
By the way, by the way, by the way, by the way
Once again you see an in
Discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you'd kindly gurgle
Out a date for me
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh yeah
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh yeah
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh yeah
Now the body of one soul I adore wants to die
You have always told me you'd not live past twenty-five
I say stay long enough to repay all who cause strife
Once again you see an in
Discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you'd kindly gurgle
Out a date for me
Once again you see an in
Discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you'd kindly gurgle
Out a date for me
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh yeah
Oh oh oh oh oh
I bear true and an existing witness
To this barrel of monkeys
A self-proclaimed immoral success
Perfected by each whereof
Individually deadly, and equally so
And spread about the surrendered troops
For even thousands of miles
Will not tear apart their communication
Or the lack thereof
Vultures, liars, thieves
Each proclaim their innocence
In no suggestion or rhyme
Your weapon is contained
In the wrecking of the keeping the desired effect
The breaking of the spirit thwarts the whole being
Your weapon is guilt
Your weapon is guilt
Your weapon is guilt
Guilt
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likely a friend, enters layne's home & insults him, layne says hes going to change and get out of his drug habbit. The insult was probably about a 20 hour drug binge. hence the line, "20 hours wont print my picture..." The milk carton refrence is about back in the day, when someone would go missing, people would post te missing person's picture on milk cartons.
the chorus is about this friend telling layne exactly when hes going to die, he gurgles out a date of death for him.
the next line is the friend talking, saying that layne told this friend he wasnt going to live past his 25th birthday.
The end is saying that people are trying to make layne guilty so he'll quit the drugs.
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