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”
You are my new inspiration; my muse, and I mean that not as a compliment. I will use you to cruise through any writers block, any lazy days when a glazed gaze invades my minds cave of creativity.
I will think of you, and what you did to me. I will take negativity and make it inspire me, I was not a book from a library. As I stand here alone, I declare I was not alone, to be picked up and dropped off at a later date, and you barely even made my spine bend, just skim through some of the interesting bits and then skip to the end.
The notes you left in my margins turned from scribbles to scars, but heres the best part, you didn't even realize you were reading the first draft of a best seller, the manuscript of future nobel prize winner, this book you discard as a pamphlet will ignite shit.
I will work 10x harder than before, I will create art, I will create beauty, I will create so many things that you can't ignore, but I will not do them in your name. I will not shout you from the rooftops, I will tap your name out in morse code on my outer thigh as I casually accept plaudits from on higher.
I will not try to win you back, I do not want you back. I just want to show you, I just need to show you what you fucking walked away from.
I will achieve all my goals tenfold, I want to achieve your goals too, causally. I will have happiness and joy in my life, I will fall in love, husband, child, and wife. I shine brighter than I could ever of dreamed to be, and you will see me.
I will make rivers run red in your anonymity, the screams of nature will echo our affinity, my wrath will be relentless, my path of destruction will be momentously momentous.
I will change the face of history, I will paint it in my likeness, and I will like this. I will destroy everything that you hold dear by simply destroying everything far and near.
My footsteps will be impossible not to hear, I will watch you from afar and taste each tear. I will wipe out entire races, I will erase faces, and displace in great haste, and know graces.
This world will become my plaything, embraced in my ways and then just break it. I will burn this entire world to the ground. I will a mark greater than any have left before. I will lay waste by land, air, and sea, and you will see me.
Lyrics submitted by Glappkontakt
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