She walks to the mailbox each morning at nine
Every day she begins she's always one day behind
At least when it comes to the mail

She sits on the balcony paying the bills
Her letters just hashing her cigarettes onto the sill
Every breath a little more pale

And the hill's still left to climb
It's just so

High
And I'm so
Tired
Come on look me in my bloodshot eyes
The clouds are all on
Fire
It's just so
High
And I'm so
Tired
Come on look me in my bloodshot eyes
The clouds are all on

Sits in his basement from midnight 'til four
Painting pictures that nobody sees from his days in the war
The canvas is painted bright red, red
He heats up the shower, he paces the hall
He'll scrub for an hour or more but he won't get it all
The paint in his fingernail beds

The hill's still left to climb
It's just so

High
And I'm so
Tired
Come on look me in my bloodshot eyes
The clouds are all on
Fire
It's just so
High
And I'm so
Tired
Come on look up at the bloodshot sky
The clouds are all on
Fire
The clouds are all on
Fire
The clouds are all on

We wait in valleys whiles the clouds come in
We see no shadows, 'cause the shadow's all there is
And we climb,
And we climb

But it's just so
High
And I'm so
Tired
Come on look me in my bloodshot eyes
The clouds are all on
Fire
It's just so
High
And I'm so
Tired
Come on look up at the bloodshot sky
The clouds are all on
Fire
The clouds are all on
Fire
The clouds are all on
The clouds are all on
Fire
The clouds are all on
Fire



Lyrics submitted by AbsolutionAgent_gMs

Track duration: 03:54


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    General Comment:and i also kind of agree with charcoalsketch. KIND OF, though. the only song i have a problem w/ is caves, but i do love the piano in it
    Flag punkrockprincess17on December 23, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:this song obviously kind of references to drugs..."come on look me in my bloodshot eyes"...but it's more. i have no idea what it means but i'm glad this was the first song i heard from the glass passenger
    Flag punkrockprincess17on December 23, 2010   Link
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    My Interpretation:I believe that this song is about being stuck... with no way out in sight. It MAY, and I know that tying yet another song on this CD to cancer is annoying, be about the long uphill battle out of Andrew's cancerous state. He's talking about how tired he is and the pain he is going through... and there's still a HUGE hill left to climb. And he's wondering if he can do it. He's wondering whether he can climb the hill or not... but first he has to climb out of the shadow of cancer and face the painful, fiery sky, and push himself to bear with the pain before he can pass through it... Just a thought :)
    Flag Tlothspeichon October 06, 2009   Link
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    My Opinion:i think everything in transit was better.. :/ this CD's songs just aren't as catchy and they're way too repetitive.
    Flag charcoalsketchon June 24, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I think this relates to his cancer somewhat.
    Everyone has challenges in life, and climbing the hill is obviously about getting over those challenges. People will be daunted by how high the hill looks and how tired they become.
    With Andrew, his challenge was cancer, and he was told that he just might die, so obviously the hill he had to climb was huge. This challenge made him tired emotionally, but also physically because you do not get much sleep in a hospital.
    Flag whocansaveuson May 13, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:andrew in this song is talking about becoming a big band because he says "it's just so high i am just so tiered"
    he is tiered of touring they have been touring non-stop since 2005 and he knows that they are getting
    bigger and bigger as the year goes on and he is also talking about were his insperation is and that is the
    sunset andrew is a big fan of the sun and the sky and the bloodshot skys is saying he is looking at the sunset
    or the sunrise and he is tiered cause he clearly hasent slept
    he also states at one point in the song "and we climb,and we climb and we climb Hiiiger" he is saying
    they have finally become a big band
    Flag cdroche1433on February 06, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:To see what the song is about, go here: virb.com/absolutepunk/videos/…

    For the rest of the album: absolutepunk.net/artists/…
    Flag MCSmateon October 27, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I think it relates to the boring repetition of everyday life. but also that we all have things that are hard to over come "its just so high and im so tired" and that its not always drugs people have to over come and that it might be memories, that part about the guy from the war it just emphasizes how difficult issues like these are... maybe i mean i never think i have quite understood jm, pure genious though, definatley.
    Flag livFERtheMU5iCon October 18, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:"Sits in his basement from midnight 'til four
    Painting pictures that nobody sees from his days in the war
    The canvas is painted bright red, red
    He heats up the shower, he paces the hall
    He'll scrub for an hour or more but he won't get it all
    The paint in his fingernail beds"

    The paint here is a metaphor for blood. As someone said earlier, he paints the canvas red because of all the blood and carnage he saw. When he scrubs his hands, but can't get it out of his fingernail beds, it's referring to his attempt to get the blood off his hands, to redeem himself from the lives he's taken. But he can't forget, so the "paint" stays, no matter how long he washes.
    Flag starsfinallyxplodeon October 17, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I love JM but I really don't like this song :/
    Flag helloworld44on October 10, 2008   Link

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