I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
It seems like you want me to be someone.
I think I'm just another nobody.
You can dress me up and send me on my way, but you'll never get the kid out of me.
I know that I'm not half the man that you thought
I should be, but one day I hope you'll see.
There's no way that one hundred of your books could be equal to one hundred things
I've seen.
A new stage in a new world every night, and one thousand midnight highway dreams.
I know I'm not half the man that you thought I should be,
But I've traveled even further than their narrowed minds can see..
I know I'm not half the man
That you thought I should be |*first time*|
There's more to my life you'll see. |*second time*|
Can't you realize that I'm just me, the real me?
That's all I want to be.
I think I'm just another nobody.
You can dress me up and send me on my way, but you'll never get the kid out of me.
I know that I'm not half the man that you thought
I should be, but one day I hope you'll see.
There's no way that one hundred of your books could be equal to one hundred things
I've seen.
A new stage in a new world every night, and one thousand midnight highway dreams.
I know I'm not half the man that you thought I should be,
But I've traveled even further than their narrowed minds can see..
I know I'm not half the man
That you thought I should be |*first time*|
There's more to my life you'll see. |*second time*|
Can't you realize that I'm just me, the real me?
That's all I want to be.
Lyrics submitted by punk_in_drublic99
Living It Up Lyrics as written by Carlos Marcelo Maurice Jordan
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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