The way this song speaks to me🥺🥺when I sing it I feel like I relate
The faces all around me they don't smile they just crack
Waiting for our ship to come but our ships not coming back
We do have time like pennies in a jar
What are we saving for?
What are we saving for?
There's a smell of stale feeling that's drinking from my skins
The drinking never stops because the drink off all our sins
We sit and throw our roots into the floor
What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?
So give me something to believe
'Cause I am living just to breathe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe
Something's always coming you can hear it in the ground
It swells into the air with the rising, rising sound
And never comes but shakes the boards and rattles all the doors
What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?
So give me something to believe
'Cause I am living just to breathe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe
I am hiding from some beast
But the beast was always here
Watching without eyes
Because the beast is just my fear
That I am just nothing
Now it's just what I've become
What am I waiting for?
Its already done
Oh
So give me something to believe
'Cause I am living just to breathe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe
Waiting for our ship to come but our ships not coming back
We do have time like pennies in a jar
What are we saving for?
What are we saving for?
There's a smell of stale feeling that's drinking from my skins
The drinking never stops because the drink off all our sins
We sit and throw our roots into the floor
What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?
So give me something to believe
'Cause I am living just to breathe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe
Something's always coming you can hear it in the ground
It swells into the air with the rising, rising sound
And never comes but shakes the boards and rattles all the doors
What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?
So give me something to believe
'Cause I am living just to breathe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe
I am hiding from some beast
But the beast was always here
Watching without eyes
Because the beast is just my fear
That I am just nothing
Now it's just what I've become
What am I waiting for?
Its already done
Oh
So give me something to believe
'Cause I am living just to breathe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe
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“The faces all around don’t smile, they just crack”……(People are like zombies , working a job that they clearly hate or stuck in a relationship they cant get out of)
“Waiting for our ship to come but our ships not coming back”……(People are hanging on to false hope and past opportunities instead of taking an active approach to getting out of a a bad situation)
“We sit and grow roots into the floor, what are we waiting for?”(People content to just sit at the job or life they hate and wither away into nothingness)
“Somethings always coming you can hear it in the ground, but never comes.” (People are gripped by irrational fear that keeps them from moving forward. They fear something that’s never going to happen to them)
“I am hiding from the beast, but the beast was always here”….(We are and have always been the biggest detriment to our own success. WE are the beast)
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