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”
Feels like I spent all this time talking to walls
Feels like I gotta let go of the way it was before
Are your really there? Are you made of stone?
Am I talking to someone or am I here all alone
Are you alive, don't you feel, feel, feel?
Show me you're here, show me your tears
Don't you feel, feel, feel, feel?
Show me, hold me, speak up and tell me something
Change my mind before it's too late
Are you alive, show me you're human
Can't you feel, feel, feel, feel?
Seems like you're stuck in a daze, slipping away, away
I'm sick of trying to reach you, can't you say what's on your mind
Baby we're losing the race to far behind, behind
Tell me that I'm not the only one who can try, who can fight the wall
Are you alive, don't you feel, feel, feel?
Show me you're here, show me your tears
Don't you feel, feel, feel, feel?
Show me, hold me, speak up and tell me something
Change my mind before it's too late
Are you alive, show me you're human
Can't you feel, feel, feel, feel?
Sometimes the words they don't get through
What really speaks is what you do
Open up, let me inside, just wanna find you
Are you alive, are you, are you?
Show me you're here, show me your tears
Don't you feel, feel, feel, feel?
Show me, hold me, speak up and tell me something
Change my mind before it's too late
Are you alive, show me you're human
Can't you feel, feel, feel, feel?
Whoa, wake up, are you dead?
Oh feel, feel, feel, feel?
Show me, hold me, speak up and tell me something
Feels like I gotta let go of the way it was before
Are your really there? Are you made of stone?
Am I talking to someone or am I here all alone
Are you alive, don't you feel, feel, feel?
Show me you're here, show me your tears
Don't you feel, feel, feel, feel?
Show me, hold me, speak up and tell me something
Change my mind before it's too late
Are you alive, show me you're human
Can't you feel, feel, feel, feel?
Seems like you're stuck in a daze, slipping away, away
I'm sick of trying to reach you, can't you say what's on your mind
Baby we're losing the race to far behind, behind
Tell me that I'm not the only one who can try, who can fight the wall
Are you alive, don't you feel, feel, feel?
Show me you're here, show me your tears
Don't you feel, feel, feel, feel?
Show me, hold me, speak up and tell me something
Change my mind before it's too late
Are you alive, show me you're human
Can't you feel, feel, feel, feel?
Sometimes the words they don't get through
What really speaks is what you do
Open up, let me inside, just wanna find you
Are you alive, are you, are you?
Show me you're here, show me your tears
Don't you feel, feel, feel, feel?
Show me, hold me, speak up and tell me something
Change my mind before it's too late
Are you alive, show me you're human
Can't you feel, feel, feel, feel?
Whoa, wake up, are you dead?
Oh feel, feel, feel, feel?
Show me, hold me, speak up and tell me something
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Feels like I've spent all this time Taking (to walls)<LYRIC CORRECTION Feels like I gotta let go Of the way it was before
I think she is saying that she's spent all this time talking to him but he's never listened and done what she's asked him to so she feels she's been talking to walls. And then she goes on to say that it wasn't always like this and that she realizes she has to stop grasping onto the past and waiting for it to go back to the way it was because it's never going to go back to the way it was. She's saying that she's got to let the past go.
Are you really there? Are you made of stone? Am I talking to someone? Or am I here all alone?
She's saying that because he's so blase in the relationship and indifferent to her feelings she's wondering whether he really is in the relationship at all. She's asking whether she's alone in the concept of the relationship.
Are you alive? Don't you feel? Show me you're here. Show me your tears.
Don't you feel?
Show me. Hold me. Speak up and tell me something Change my mind before it's too late
Are you alive? Show me you're human. Can't you feel?
In the chorus I think she's asking whether he's alive and human because he acts like a stone, devoid of genuine emotion. And she's asking him to show her that he feels and to cry to prove that he can feel. I then think she's asking him to speak up if he does feel and to anything to prove that he does love her becfore it's too late to change her mind on leaving him.
Seems like you're stuck in a daze Slipping away I'm sick of trying to reach you Can't you say what's on your mind?
Maybe we're losing a race Too far behind Tell me I'm not the only one Who can try Who can fight
I think she's saying he's slipping away because of his lacking in the relationship. She's sick of trying to get him to say something or do something that is evidence he's committed as much as she is to the relationship, and then she's asking him to do something simple like saying what's on his mind, kind of putting across the fact that she doesn't want to force him but is instead trying to get him to take 'baby steps' and do something easy first.
Sometimes the words, they don't get through What really speaks is what you do Open up, let me inside Just wanna find you
In the bridge she's saying that words don't mean a thing compared to the actions that someone takes; since actions speak louder than words. And then she's going on to say that she wants him to open up to her and let her see the real him.
Wake up Are you dead?
Here I think she is telling him to wake up, but then going on to ask him whether he is dead, though not in the literal sense but in the sense of emotion and humanity. Asking him whether he is lacking of anything that would not hinder the relationship and set it back on track.
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