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Birthright (Demo) Lyrics
“Get back up, what are you waiting for this time? “
I’m over playing with this plight
But I’m still handcuffed, ball-gagged, facedown to the floor
And I’m waiting while I’m hating what I’m waiting for
It’s time to take ahold of what belongs to me
It’s time to walk away with no apologies
These voices in the mirror start quietly
And now they’re screaming back at me
Don’t back down
Holding on until my hands and mind are bleeding
This is my birthright
I’m so sick of feeling like I’m helpless
This is over tonight
Don’t back up, your ass is to the wall again and
Aren’t you sick of wasting so much time?
And yes it’s true you’re a fool if you think you were born
To be waiting while you’re hating what you’re waiting for
How could have I been so earthbound
with my heart in the depths and my face in the ground?
it’s time to uproot myself and move on
How could have I been making sound
When my mouth and my lungs had both fused to the ground?
it’s time to uproot myself and move on
The voices in my head have all begun to sing
(the voices in your head have all begun to sing)
and they sure as hell hope I am listening
(I sure as hell hope you are listening)
I’m over playing with this plight
But I’m still handcuffed, ball-gagged, facedown to the floor
And I’m waiting while I’m hating what I’m waiting for
It’s time to walk away with no apologies
These voices in the mirror start quietly
And now they’re screaming back at me
Holding on until my hands and mind are bleeding
This is my birthright
I’m so sick of feeling like I’m helpless
This is over tonight
Aren’t you sick of wasting so much time?
And yes it’s true you’re a fool if you think you were born
To be waiting while you’re hating what you’re waiting for
with my heart in the depths and my face in the ground?
it’s time to uproot myself and move on
When my mouth and my lungs had both fused to the ground?
it’s time to uproot myself and move on
(the voices in your head have all begun to sing)
and they sure as hell hope I am listening
(I sure as hell hope you are listening)
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WOOT, 1st to comment!
Anyways, I think this song is about not waiting around anymore. in a more deeper perspective, its about not caring about moving on, being so sick of waiting on this one person that you've grown to hate it, but you still do it for some reason, and this song is explaining what happens when you get sick of waiting around.
And it also kinda insults ppl who think the only thing they're here for is to just get hurt. Hence the " And yes it's true your a fool if you think you were born To be waiting while you're hating what you're waiting for"
Kinda like a 'get your ass up and move along' kinda song. I like it :)
If i'm completely wrong, please correct me, don't want to give off false meanings.
no offence but this isnt atall like what you said you have completely made the song out to be about love and something like justin bieber it just pisses me off how every song nowadays is about "love" well fake love anyway and then when you get the songs that arent about this fake love song genre you get people like you trying to push awsome songs into the same genre as this pussy fake love song genre when its nothing like that. this song is saying how the person is changing to fufil his birthright from being a helpless...
no offence but this isnt atall like what you said you have completely made the song out to be about love and something like justin bieber it just pisses me off how every song nowadays is about "love" well fake love anyway and then when you get the songs that arent about this fake love song genre you get people like you trying to push awsome songs into the same genre as this pussy fake love song genre when its nothing like that. this song is saying how the person is changing to fufil his birthright from being a helpless person to someone who is unstopable mentally emotionaly and physicaly i jus fricken hate it how you have tried to make a song like this into a pussy type song just because everysone is now all faggy doesnt mean the older ones are so stop trying to shove it in that type of style when its obviously not im sorry if im offending you or being a twat its just its so hard to find a song that isnt all faggy and when you find it you get people trying to turn it faggy
I'm also going through somehting like this, I'm tired of waiting around. But i'm finding it easier to move along everyday
i never thought klay could make an instrumental like "baseline" into a song like this because "baseline" was so epic and awesome it sounded like a song on its own. i never thought vocals would work with it but klay did it! :D
"But I’m still handcuffed, ball-gagged, facedown to the floor" -- i see that as real vivid imagery and the thought of male bondage has always disgusted me. i down this only 'cause it's celldweller. ha.
This song just reeks of inner turmoil if you ask me. It's not about 'being so sick of waiting on this one person that you've grown to hate it,' But more about growing tired of waiting on yourself to get back up after failing. Being tired of putting it off, and feeling 'helpless'. about not being 'hand cuffed' and 'ballgaged' by your own emotions and not wanting to get back up and knowing you have to and 'waiting while your hating what your waiting for'. In short I guess I just think it's a struggle within some one... at least that's how it came across to me. I mean think about the song 'fadeaway'. Klayton uses these introspective alter egos to tear himself apart, It's his way of making himself better, fixing what's broken if you will. I don't know man, That's just my Opinion.
about being 'hand cuffed' and 'ballgaged' **** Sorry about that... I was in a hurry.
Still good, Shadenhand. Almost every song talks about his inner turmoil.
this, and every other one of his songs is completely about inner turmoil. and its amazing that everyone in some way can relate . but its not waiting on someone, or anything like that. Its about the struggle of being an addict... the alternate voices in all of his songs is the "demon" inside. or the voice of the mistress that is heroin. its unreal how powerful his songs. If you have been there, its obvious, in all of them