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”
I had been spying for years
reversed my ears to hear the inside instead of out
fear and doubt proceeded discovery
I'd uncovered me, plenty of Hermes wannabes
lost their wings to the life mystery
History blisters me with truth and density
memories, like destinies
remain untouchable
the present presents presents
lessons to give or to receive? This question's evident
I am confident in my apparent specialist quest
agent intelligence
having already studied my own relovence
I remain anonymous You have not seen me
Mr. No Identity frequently spying your frequencies
Recording and deleting theories honestly
CHORUS
Casual
The hiss of this abyss is bliss
Casual
A ringing in my ears is refreshment
After a time of having my presence go unnoticed
the finest of gifts my cloak of mystery suddenly deserted me
The observer
now easily observed
was obvious due to an absurd onslaught of nerves
a bustle, a pound
my body found the ground
slowly surrounded by a society now spying me
Shall we try diplomacy?
My future looks bloody
I'd seen too much and for that I was hated
Yet their ideas I could not condemn
this amount of knowledge was the same reason I hated them
they cut off my tongue saying all senses are related
The crowd afraid of being incriminated
if I relayed these faded observations
I tasted blood
Then only black
was it a setback, the end the edge
a dive from the ledge
without my tongue's life
I am dead.
Incapable of suicide
these thoughts quickly died
if I jumped I would just fly, dip, and rise
And I did
back to consciousness
CHORUS
reversed my ears to hear the inside instead of out
fear and doubt proceeded discovery
I'd uncovered me, plenty of Hermes wannabes
lost their wings to the life mystery
History blisters me with truth and density
memories, like destinies
remain untouchable
the present presents presents
lessons to give or to receive? This question's evident
I am confident in my apparent specialist quest
agent intelligence
having already studied my own relovence
I remain anonymous You have not seen me
Mr. No Identity frequently spying your frequencies
Recording and deleting theories honestly
CHORUS
Casual
The hiss of this abyss is bliss
Casual
A ringing in my ears is refreshment
After a time of having my presence go unnoticed
the finest of gifts my cloak of mystery suddenly deserted me
The observer
now easily observed
was obvious due to an absurd onslaught of nerves
a bustle, a pound
my body found the ground
slowly surrounded by a society now spying me
Shall we try diplomacy?
My future looks bloody
I'd seen too much and for that I was hated
Yet their ideas I could not condemn
this amount of knowledge was the same reason I hated them
they cut off my tongue saying all senses are related
The crowd afraid of being incriminated
if I relayed these faded observations
I tasted blood
Then only black
was it a setback, the end the edge
a dive from the ledge
without my tongue's life
I am dead.
Incapable of suicide
these thoughts quickly died
if I jumped I would just fly, dip, and rise
And I did
back to consciousness
CHORUS
Lyrics submitted by Ender
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I definitely agree with chopstix719.
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