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 Earth it did crack open on the day
that I was born and a thousand merry
pranksters came dancin' through the storm.
I lay cradle bound a howlin' out my mind
not knowin' years to come I'd be shoutin'
over din
I sucked information through the holes in
my skull as my belly gurgles hungry my
mouth is always full.
I am Antipop; I'll run against the grain till
the day I drop. I am the Antipop; the man
you cannot stop.
As a young man, I plug into the tube, but
the stench of all that pretense I cannot
muddle through.
I lay on my back and scan the radio all
that comes out my speakers is a steady
syrup flow.
I suck information through the holes in my
skull as my belly gurgles hungry my mouth
is always full.
I stood by watching and I seen 'em come
and go. I seen 'em make that million then
vanish in the snow.
They come upon you like a pack of rabid
hounds as they slobber in your ears and
purge you with their sounds.
Pushing misinformation through the holes in
my skull my belly gurgles nauseous and still
my mouth is full.
I am Antipop; I'll run against the grain till
the day I drop. I am the Antipop; the man
you cannot stop.
that I was born and a thousand merry
pranksters came dancin' through the storm.
I lay cradle bound a howlin' out my mind
not knowin' years to come I'd be shoutin'
over din
I sucked information through the holes in
my skull as my belly gurgles hungry my
mouth is always full.
I am Antipop; I'll run against the grain till
the day I drop. I am the Antipop; the man
you cannot stop.
As a young man, I plug into the tube, but
the stench of all that pretense I cannot
muddle through.
I lay on my back and scan the radio all
that comes out my speakers is a steady
syrup flow.
I suck information through the holes in my
skull as my belly gurgles hungry my mouth
is always full.
I stood by watching and I seen 'em come
and go. I seen 'em make that million then
vanish in the snow.
They come upon you like a pack of rabid
hounds as they slobber in your ears and
purge you with their sounds.
Pushing misinformation through the holes in
my skull my belly gurgles nauseous and still
my mouth is full.
I am Antipop; I'll run against the grain till
the day I drop. I am the Antipop; the man
you cannot stop.
Lyrics submitted by knate15
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