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”
I will drive a thousand miles
To escape the smog in this town
I will drive although I don't have a license
To escape the ideal that this city crowns
Hide every little scar with so much make-up
The skin can't even breathe
Hide every little scar or become the food they feed
Shift into a higher gear
Place the brick on the gas
On what I left behind I won't waste a tear
My rearview mirror has got broken glass
I will drive until I reach the desert
And wait until I see with my own eyes again
I will drive I'll head for the desert
And wait until our minds speak the same words as back then
This makes me into nothing in their eyes
But I'm willing to pay the price
To escape the smog in this town
I will drive although I don't have a license
To escape the ideal that this city crowns
Hide every little scar with so much make-up
The skin can't even breathe
Hide every little scar or become the food they feed
Shift into a higher gear
Place the brick on the gas
On what I left behind I won't waste a tear
My rearview mirror has got broken glass
I will drive until I reach the desert
And wait until I see with my own eyes again
I will drive I'll head for the desert
And wait until our minds speak the same words as back then
This makes me into nothing in their eyes
But I'm willing to pay the price
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
Act Lyrics as written by Marcus Tobias Dahlstroem Christian Thell Lindskog
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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this song is about beeing christian and getting fed up with the ideals of the world. he wants to escape this place because they have their values so screwed up. and he talks about how the people in the world have to hide themselves behind masks to even survive because if they showed their vulnerable selves, they'd get eaten for breakfast. This song is really about him making a decision to live for heaven and not for the world. "On what I left behind I won't waste a tear". he says that he doesn't regret his decision for one second. "and wait until I see with my own eyes again" he's talking about getting away from the world temporarily to clear his mind of the corruption it brought. "And wait until our minds speak the same words as back then". being christian and in the world, he let the world's ideals get to him and it made him lose some of the things that God wanted him to live for. So he's going away until he feels that his mind is free of the world and focused on god.
I like this song because it reminds me to be in the world and not of the world. Also, it reminds me a lot that I'm set apart and that, as one of His children, God has a higher purpose and a higher calling than what the world has for me. that's all.
My favorite Blindside song. The screaming and music is amazing. Full of intensity.
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