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've got a bone to pick maybe it's
Yours someone said if you worked hard enough ran fast enough learned enough
You would amount to
Something fail trying is not enough I'll hold you way
Too long it's cold when I touch you a
Release and everything you are is on the ground broken open and spilling
Leaves soak they drink you are blood
That's all fail trying is not enough I'll hold you way too long it's
Cold when I'm near you a release and everything you are
Is on the ground you are blood that's all
Blood fail trying is not enough I'll hold you way too long
It's cold when you're down release
And everything you are is on the ground broken, opened and spilling
Leaves soak they drink you are blood that's all fail
Trying is not enough I dragged you
Too far down it's
Cold when I release blood a release and everything you are is
On the ground broken open and spilling
Leaves soak they drink blood fail trying
Is not enough I held you way too long
It's cold when I'm near you a release and everything you are
Is on the ground and everything you are
Is broken opened and spoiled the body fail trying is not enough
And there I am above you I won't let go it's cold when you're down it's cold when I touch you and there I am above you I won't let go it's cold when I'm near you
And there I am above you opened and spoiled you were blood nothing more
Leaves were soaked you were blood that's all opened and spoiled the body
You are blood nothing more
It's cold when I release blood
It's cold when you're down I'll hold you way too long I won't let go
It's cold when birds fall from the sky
It's cold when I'm near you fail
Trying is not enough
Yours someone said if you worked hard enough ran fast enough learned enough
You would amount to
Something fail trying is not enough I'll hold you way
Too long it's cold when I touch you a
Release and everything you are is on the ground broken open and spilling
Leaves soak they drink you are blood
That's all fail trying is not enough I'll hold you way too long it's
Cold when I'm near you a release and everything you are
Is on the ground you are blood that's all
Blood fail trying is not enough I'll hold you way too long
It's cold when you're down release
And everything you are is on the ground broken, opened and spilling
Leaves soak they drink you are blood that's all fail
Trying is not enough I dragged you
Too far down it's
Cold when I release blood a release and everything you are is
On the ground broken open and spilling
Leaves soak they drink blood fail trying
Is not enough I held you way too long
It's cold when I'm near you a release and everything you are
Is on the ground and everything you are
Is broken opened and spoiled the body fail trying is not enough
And there I am above you I won't let go it's cold when you're down it's cold when I touch you and there I am above you I won't let go it's cold when I'm near you
And there I am above you opened and spoiled you were blood nothing more
Leaves were soaked you were blood that's all opened and spoiled the body
You are blood nothing more
It's cold when I release blood
It's cold when you're down I'll hold you way too long I won't let go
It's cold when birds fall from the sky
It's cold when I'm near you fail
Trying is not enough
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