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”
Your eyes, your concrete eyes
Cross criss cross my path
Walking in circular patterns
Shoe shine your ammo, polish your metal
I need not your wicked weapons
My war is not with someone like you
A string of blood that is not my own strings between
Increase time and it will fall into place
A sword and my heart
So much so that it makes its way through my throat giving me thought to speak
This becomes my pistol
This becomes my dagger of my time
Don't sell out
It all comes to
This becomes your future
Unseen war
Your weapons are useless
Drop the gun
Golden gun
Like bringing a knife to a gun fight.
Cross criss cross my path
Walking in circular patterns
Shoe shine your ammo, polish your metal
I need not your wicked weapons
My war is not with someone like you
A string of blood that is not my own strings between
Increase time and it will fall into place
A sword and my heart
So much so that it makes its way through my throat giving me thought to speak
This becomes my pistol
This becomes my dagger of my time
Don't sell out
It all comes to
This becomes your future
Unseen war
Your weapons are useless
Drop the gun
Golden gun
Like bringing a knife to a gun fight.
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I always thought that it was reference to the Scripture. The sword and my heart being the Bible (Eph. 6:17) and your weapons are useless, drop the gun, my war is not with someone like you, going back to the scripture "We wrestle not with flesh and blood but with principalities..." (Eph. 6:12). The through my throat, giving me thought to speak, is the prayer that is used to fight spiritual battles. The concrete eyes are the physical eyes that cannot see things spiritual things. That's just what I always thought though.
Alas, a typo! the line "Through my throat my throat giving me thought to speak" should be "Through my throat giving me thought to speak"
hey.. you did good. ;) it sounds right to me.. because reading the booklet is indeed difficult.. goood jobby.. haha
you forgot that the part, I brought a knife to a gun fight
Aside from this song being named: face:face on the 5 track pre release, i belive this song is talking about a war of words, and that if you use the wrong words (ammo) your weapons are nothing. Thats very brief and it goes a lot deeper.
what happened to, "your eyes, your conrete eyes"
the first verse isnt right either... instead of "Cross crisscross my path walking in circular patterns" it should be "Cross crisscross my path they walk, walk in their circular patterns"... anyways check out their website (normajeannoise.com)
I think this song is about how powerful and destructive words can be. and possibly how when witnessing to someone that just trying to win an argument doesn't solve anything.
Lyrics in booklet, WHERE ARE THE LYRICS?? In the booklet...
okay i dont get this. all the norma jean lyrics are said differently and they say crap in between the lines that isnt written anywhere. like whats after the word patterns before "shoe shine, your ammo, your metal" and he says polish your...what? and a whole ton of stuff all through the song that isnt in the lyrics anywhere. why cant they just type what they actually say. the lyrics in the chariot booklet are also completely wrong. it bothers me... if anyone knows the right lyrics for this song or the others, comment them, cuz they do that on almost every song.