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”
All day long, I sing this same old song.
Round my head, the same old record's on.
Sound I know, the engine slows, and the ground disappears...
oh my love.
Laying on the floor I think about superman: and did he ever lay around drinking, telling his friends, reefer in his hand, “Hey man some day I'm gonna make a big splash”, or does that kind of talk just come to us folk who can't find an 'S' on our chests? So just keep wheeling, dealing, bus-stop dreaming, laying on the floor just staring at the ceiling.
Sound I know, the engine slows, and the ground disappears...
oh my love.
Laying in the tub I thought about rock 'n roll and has it already been done before? Guess so, it's just getting your dick sucked, don't make it any less good than it once was, oh my god I wish that this dream would stop. Start again.
When I get well I'm gonna move to the country, breathe clean air man, turn the televisions off for a while, Eskimo style. Gonna just breathe in, breathe out, breathe. In the city you know, get paid, you get laid, go to the clinic and you listen as the doc says: “Don't drink, don't smoke, work hard, be fun, don't eat no junk” ain't it just enough to make you wanna go get drunk? that's what I done. Hmm, well, anyway the drink got me thinking what a friend had said, guess what he said: “Happiness is nothing but the flow of serotonin, it ain't got nothing to do with Jesus Christ, nothing got to do with wrong or right, oh help me out Simp, can it be right? that it all boils down to how the chemicals flow to your soul?”...
serotonin.
...into my soul, serotonin
Round my head, the same old record's on.
Sound I know, the engine slows, and the ground disappears...
oh my love.
Laying on the floor I think about superman: and did he ever lay around drinking, telling his friends, reefer in his hand, “Hey man some day I'm gonna make a big splash”, or does that kind of talk just come to us folk who can't find an 'S' on our chests? So just keep wheeling, dealing, bus-stop dreaming, laying on the floor just staring at the ceiling.
Sound I know, the engine slows, and the ground disappears...
oh my love.
Laying in the tub I thought about rock 'n roll and has it already been done before? Guess so, it's just getting your dick sucked, don't make it any less good than it once was, oh my god I wish that this dream would stop. Start again.
When I get well I'm gonna move to the country, breathe clean air man, turn the televisions off for a while, Eskimo style. Gonna just breathe in, breathe out, breathe. In the city you know, get paid, you get laid, go to the clinic and you listen as the doc says: “Don't drink, don't smoke, work hard, be fun, don't eat no junk” ain't it just enough to make you wanna go get drunk? that's what I done. Hmm, well, anyway the drink got me thinking what a friend had said, guess what he said: “Happiness is nothing but the flow of serotonin, it ain't got nothing to do with Jesus Christ, nothing got to do with wrong or right, oh help me out Simp, can it be right? that it all boils down to how the chemicals flow to your soul?”...
serotonin.
...into my soul, serotonin
Lyrics submitted by sam99foster
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I'm afraid i got this a bit wrong, I copied it from someone else who had it mostly down but made a couple errors - it's "the engine slows" not "the angels slow" and at the end it's "happiness is nothing but the flow of serotonin, it ain't got to do with Jesus Christ..." etc
The song remains awesome.
I love this song... I think its more or less about a person who's totally bored and unhappy with life because one day is the same as the next and spends alot of his/her time daydreaming to try and compensate. Why is no one else commenting on this class song? Come on people, comment!!! :p
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