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”
tamie flunked a test today and all she does is cry if they kick her off the cheerleader squad shes knows she gonna die she cant even go home tonight because she is so afraid that her parents might ground her cuz she didnt make the grade well her friends wont understand they might even laugh at her now shes feeling overwhelmed succumbing to the pressure so she wrote a little note and addressed it to her mom it says i hope this brings you peace pray for me until im gone
lately somethings changed with jane shes always late for school she cant take another day of her girlfriends being cruel shes great out on the football field ringing out all the cheer but in the halls of school she gets tormented by her peers as long as shes a cheerleader everything will be alright but unlike all the other girls shes home each friday night just to be accepted once was her one and only wish but she never was at all so she slashed her lovely wrists
marsha was a straight-a girl on the cheerleader team everyone thought she was stupid always lost in a big dream and they named her shit was stinging cuz of the way that she would walk all the girls would laugh behind her back and the boys stopped ball to mock now shes feelin self conscious and refusing to speak her parents are worried she hasnt spoken in a week inside shes crying out for help and it seems shes lost all hope her parents found her a day later hanging from a knotted rope
nancy's got the worst of it because shes prettiest everyone thinks shes conceited she always looks the best shes goes out with all the football guys and everyone thinks she is much to popular not to have lost her virginity she has no one she can turn to and shes feeling really sad and last night on a date some guy raped her really bad all she wanted was to be loved but she always felt so cheap so she stole some sleeping pills ate them all and went to sleep
stupid reasons why reasons why they all had to die suicide stupid reasons why reasons why they all had to die suicide stupid reasons why reasons why they all had to die suicide stupid reasons why reasons why they all had to die suicide
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lately somethings changed with jane shes always late for school she cant take another day of her girlfriends being cruel shes great out on the football field ringing out all the cheer but in the halls of school she gets tormented by her peers as long as shes a cheerleader everything will be alright but unlike all the other girls shes home each friday night just to be accepted once was her one and only wish but she never was at all so she slashed her lovely wrists
marsha was a straight-a girl on the cheerleader team everyone thought she was stupid always lost in a big dream and they named her shit was stinging cuz of the way that she would walk all the girls would laugh behind her back and the boys stopped ball to mock now shes feelin self conscious and refusing to speak her parents are worried she hasnt spoken in a week inside shes crying out for help and it seems shes lost all hope her parents found her a day later hanging from a knotted rope
nancy's got the worst of it because shes prettiest everyone thinks shes conceited she always looks the best shes goes out with all the football guys and everyone thinks she is much to popular not to have lost her virginity she has no one she can turn to and shes feeling really sad and last night on a date some guy raped her really bad all she wanted was to be loved but she always felt so cheap so she stole some sleeping pills ate them all and went to sleep
stupid reasons why reasons why they all had to die suicide stupid reasons why reasons why they all had to die suicide stupid reasons why reasons why they all had to die suicide stupid reasons why reasons why they all had to die suicide
suicide
suicide
suicide
suicide
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