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”
The pale shadows flickered on the wall
Offering a refuge from
the dismal glance
The man sat at a table with his hands
crossed
And muttered a blessing in a drunken
stupor
The somber room reeked of oppressive
piety
Spreading the disease of divine hypocrisy
In the
shadows a wife and child slept
Weary eyes closed in a
listless grief
A silence hovered outside in a
pitch-black darkness
The man’s delusion
Demons with
lizard-like tongues and blackened wings
A curse on his
beloved
His fearful eyes darted around the desolate
room
And caught a shotgun hanging on the wooden
wall
The man sat at the edge of a bed
And
farewelled his sleeping family
The cold barrel pressed
against their forehead
In a calm devotion before the blast
The thunder silenced into a whisper
And raised the
smoke of lost tomorrow
Offering a refuge from
the dismal glance
The man sat at a table with his hands
crossed
And muttered a blessing in a drunken
stupor
The somber room reeked of oppressive
piety
Spreading the disease of divine hypocrisy
In the
shadows a wife and child slept
Weary eyes closed in a
listless grief
A silence hovered outside in a
pitch-black darkness
The man’s delusion
Demons with
lizard-like tongues and blackened wings
A curse on his
beloved
His fearful eyes darted around the desolate
room
And caught a shotgun hanging on the wooden
wall
The man sat at the edge of a bed
And
farewelled his sleeping family
The cold barrel pressed
against their forehead
In a calm devotion before the blast
The thunder silenced into a whisper
And raised the
smoke of lost tomorrow
Lyrics submitted by Phantom_Death
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