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 should have always known you'd always scratch that itch
When you asked me for safe passage on my shoulders where we slid
And just before you laid dead weight upon its shores
I stung you in the face for that's the nature of my core
Because I got distance, don't let it close
Gotta let me know you just gotta let me know
Because forget which way is out now
Gotta let me know, you just gotta let me know
I'm nowhere near this place you wear
It's unforgivable, it knows that I am visible
I'm broken mirrors and useless prayer
This lock is healing me, you know you came so willingly
Waiting is a vessel that will take me to
Love, it knows no order when you taste the truth
Because I'm trapped in this cement husk
Gotta let me go, you just gotta let me go
Because I paid with own touch now
I bought a little cut, there is blood for every month
In the way you used to call her wicked answers
Time is a plague, there's no time in this place
If you don't, if you don't let me go
Heaven's made a cesspool of us all
I'm nowhere near this place you wear
It's unforgivable it knows that I am visible
I'm broken mirrors and useless prayer
This lock is healing me, you know you came so willingly
Burns a kiss with serpent scales
There is no miracle, I lost your miracle
I'm nowhere near this place you wear
It's unforgivable it knows that I am visible
And I wrap myself around your buried questions
Through blisters of confinement
I seek to drain this broken shelter
To refill the pigment case that I have left
Don't stay long for teeth nurse the first wound
Coats revolve, hope to gain
What if we find what tongue ties double Windsor?
Invoke to no reply
Those that lie have froze at the border
No implies close the frame
What if we find the sunlight draws a curtain?
Invoke to no reply
There's a place where this depth charge ignites
In this place where the soul has no purpose
I can't believe you when your thirst won't let me go
I am the moment you were always speaking of because there's
No fence will hold
The sentient culprit fall about it
Say where I can enter them
Culprit fell about it
One fell, the other taste won't lie
Make no doubt about it
How many blame? How many cave into the pressure I apply?
How many blame? How many cave into the pressure I apply?
(If you take this breath of mine)
How many blame? How many cave into the pressure I apply?
(If you take this breath of mine)
How many blame? How many cave into the pressure I apply?
(If you take this breath of mine)
How many blame? How many cave into the pressure I apply?
(If you take this breath of mine)
When you asked me for safe passage on my shoulders where we slid
And just before you laid dead weight upon its shores
I stung you in the face for that's the nature of my core
Because I got distance, don't let it close
Gotta let me know you just gotta let me know
Because forget which way is out now
Gotta let me know, you just gotta let me know
I'm nowhere near this place you wear
It's unforgivable, it knows that I am visible
I'm broken mirrors and useless prayer
This lock is healing me, you know you came so willingly
Waiting is a vessel that will take me to
Love, it knows no order when you taste the truth
Because I'm trapped in this cement husk
Gotta let me go, you just gotta let me go
Because I paid with own touch now
I bought a little cut, there is blood for every month
In the way you used to call her wicked answers
Time is a plague, there's no time in this place
If you don't, if you don't let me go
Heaven's made a cesspool of us all
I'm nowhere near this place you wear
It's unforgivable it knows that I am visible
I'm broken mirrors and useless prayer
This lock is healing me, you know you came so willingly
Burns a kiss with serpent scales
There is no miracle, I lost your miracle
I'm nowhere near this place you wear
It's unforgivable it knows that I am visible
And I wrap myself around your buried questions
Through blisters of confinement
I seek to drain this broken shelter
To refill the pigment case that I have left
Don't stay long for teeth nurse the first wound
Coats revolve, hope to gain
What if we find what tongue ties double Windsor?
Invoke to no reply
Those that lie have froze at the border
No implies close the frame
What if we find the sunlight draws a curtain?
Invoke to no reply
There's a place where this depth charge ignites
In this place where the soul has no purpose
I can't believe you when your thirst won't let me go
I am the moment you were always speaking of because there's
No fence will hold
The sentient culprit fall about it
Say where I can enter them
Culprit fell about it
One fell, the other taste won't lie
Make no doubt about it
How many blame? How many cave into the pressure I apply?
How many blame? How many cave into the pressure I apply?
(If you take this breath of mine)
How many blame? How many cave into the pressure I apply?
(If you take this breath of mine)
How many blame? How many cave into the pressure I apply?
(If you take this breath of mine)
How many blame? How many cave into the pressure I apply?
(If you take this breath of mine)
Lyrics submitted by maslachak_, edited by HumayanIslam
Agadez Lyrics as written by Omar Rodriguez Cedric Bixler
Lyrics © MUSIC SALES CORPORATION
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