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Callin' the words that I haven't done
Callin' out your name
Tryin' not to hate myself
For gettin' in the middle, shinin' every light upon it
Still, I miss the way you’d hold me close
In a cold wind
Caught you in our room starin' at the light, I’d been up all night
Is this life and we’re just livin' it?
Still I wanna celebrate
Our love, I
I’ve been rollin' on sixty, I can die on the floor
I’ve been shackled and delivered
There’s a girl out there with silence in her eyes
Her truth is in the dark
Yeah, I see you
Comin' in view
Yeah, I need you
I’m comin' in too
In view
Ain’t no wind that I could feel in the rain, in the rain
In the fleeting rain
Turn around and rip my heart then look at it and see
How it broke away
Ain’t no way to elevate to another line
With nowhere to go
Ain’t no chains to hold you in, to hold you to
To losing you
Hiding from an enemy
When something inside me died
It’s hard to see real clear these days
With darkness on my mind
As I stare into the ocean floor
And I wonder where I once was
Was I fallin' through the air tonight
To crumble into your arms?
Is this love?
Are you sure?
Is it something
You can control?
I’m retired
I’m in chains
I’m in love
I’m in pain
All these changes everywhere
Just go ahead and take my hand
Hold me close, now let me go
Try and understand
I believe in all the power
In doing what we can do
We can try and learn to make it through
Then come out the other side
I don’t see you at all comin' in view
How do we decide what we can do?
I don't read your mind
Gimme truth
Callin' out your name
Tryin' not to hate myself
For gettin' in the middle, shinin' every light upon it
Still, I miss the way you’d hold me close
In a cold wind
Caught you in our room starin' at the light, I’d been up all night
Is this life and we’re just livin' it?
Our love, I
I’ve been rollin' on sixty, I can die on the floor
I’ve been shackled and delivered
There’s a girl out there with silence in her eyes
Her truth is in the dark
Comin' in view
Yeah, I need you
I’m comin' in too
In view
In the fleeting rain
Turn around and rip my heart then look at it and see
How it broke away
Ain’t no way to elevate to another line
With nowhere to go
Ain’t no chains to hold you in, to hold you to
To losing you
When something inside me died
It’s hard to see real clear these days
With darkness on my mind
As I stare into the ocean floor
And I wonder where I once was
Was I fallin' through the air tonight
To crumble into your arms?
Are you sure?
Is it something
You can control?
I’m retired
I’m in chains
I’m in love
I’m in pain
Just go ahead and take my hand
Hold me close, now let me go
Try and understand
I believe in all the power
In doing what we can do
We can try and learn to make it through
Then come out the other side
How do we decide what we can do?
I don't read your mind
Gimme truth
Song Info
Submitted by
mellow_harsher On Aug 30, 2017
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I think this song speaks about a long distance relationship, and how complicated is to endure the hardships and sadness if your loved one has gone away probably forever. The character from the song is calling and trying to listen for an answer back but the person he longs for has already moved on or is probably too busy forgetting him in the middle of everything.
Still he is sure of what he feels, and he's not ashamed of holding her close in his heart even thought he doesn't know what she has been up to cause the truth is in the dark.
Hiding from an enemy as he explains he's well aware his feelings could turn into hatred or resentment and he's at the bottom of his mental state, crushed by the overwhelming weight of reality, not even knowing where he is in his life and wishing to be received in her arms.
I think the chain in this song is not love itself but the uncertainty of affection by a person that has gone far away both physically and emotionally.
This is just a perfect song.
Rollin on 60 is a gang reference. The singer is likely sentenced to a long prison sentence for a gang related crime. While in prison he calls the name of his love in his cell or in solitary, trying to imitate himself because he has no one else to talk to. He asks his love to forget about him on the middle of his prison term and move on with her life. But he can’t stop thinking about her and how she would hold him close. He remembers coming home to find her staring at the light after he was out all night with the gang. Is that the life they’re destined to live? He almost died. He is arrested, shaken and delivered by the experience. His love is out there, silently waiting for him or hiding the truth about his past. While in prison he turns his life around. Maybe he finds religion. He stares down a darkness as deep and black as the bottom of an ocean as he comes to terms with his past. He’s “in chains,” in shackles I’m the prison. Finally he is released. He sees all the changes that have occurred while he was incarcerated, not only within himself, but his friends, family and the city he lives in, and the world. He Sees the power he has to make better choices. He has chosen to live a better life and asks his love to choose him.