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”
So is it courage or strength
And is that what I'm waiting for?
If I could just kill myself
Would it also kill the remorse?
I wanted so badly to catch a break
But I'm only breaking down
I'm still here and standing
But if it's up to me
I don't think I'll be hanging around
The drink slips down my throat
And the burn cures nice and slow
All the worst parts I wouldn't want you to see
The only parts left of me
Now, here I am
Just a kid without a better plan
But it's the simple thoughts that haunt me the most
I never got to see the west coast
Spent my nights just asking why
Would God let me become like this
Was it a joke from the start?
Was I suppose to laugh more at it?
And everyone's quoting their teachers and preachers
But their words make me feel so alone
No one ever says that they've had those thoughts
In the middle of the night
No one ever admits that they waited to take their life
The drink slips down my throat
And the burn cures nice and slow
All the worst parts I wouldn't want you to see
The only parts left of me
Now, here I am
Just a kid without a better plan
But it's the simple thoughts that haunt me the most
I never got to see the west coast
But it's the life I dreamed I have
The love I've found in my grasp
The words I could share with someone
Those thoughts keep the breath in my lungs
That tomorrow my hope will become
To feel a love that can't be undone
And save a wretch like me
So if the drink slips down your throat
And the burn cures nice and slow
All the worst parts you wouldn't want me to see
The same parts, I have in me
Now, scares me to thinking this way
I feel just like you do
But when you're by yourself you should know
One day we got to see the west coast
And is that what I'm waiting for?
If I could just kill myself
Would it also kill the remorse?
I wanted so badly to catch a break
But I'm only breaking down
I'm still here and standing
But if it's up to me
I don't think I'll be hanging around
The drink slips down my throat
And the burn cures nice and slow
All the worst parts I wouldn't want you to see
The only parts left of me
Now, here I am
Just a kid without a better plan
But it's the simple thoughts that haunt me the most
I never got to see the west coast
Spent my nights just asking why
Would God let me become like this
Was it a joke from the start?
Was I suppose to laugh more at it?
And everyone's quoting their teachers and preachers
But their words make me feel so alone
No one ever says that they've had those thoughts
In the middle of the night
No one ever admits that they waited to take their life
The drink slips down my throat
And the burn cures nice and slow
All the worst parts I wouldn't want you to see
The only parts left of me
Now, here I am
Just a kid without a better plan
But it's the simple thoughts that haunt me the most
I never got to see the west coast
But it's the life I dreamed I have
The love I've found in my grasp
The words I could share with someone
Those thoughts keep the breath in my lungs
That tomorrow my hope will become
To feel a love that can't be undone
And save a wretch like me
So if the drink slips down your throat
And the burn cures nice and slow
All the worst parts you wouldn't want me to see
The same parts, I have in me
Now, scares me to thinking this way
I feel just like you do
But when you're by yourself you should know
One day we got to see the west coast
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And everyone's quoting their teachers and preachers but their words make me feel so alone No one ever says that they've had those thoughts in the middle of the night No one ever admits that they waited to take their life
That is completely true. The only people who advise depressed people are people who have never been depressed and therefor no nothing about how depression thinks or feels. And even if they do, they don't like to say it.
you're exactly correct. i think ppl like "teachers and preachers" (but especially preachers) have good intentions when they try to help ppl but just don't always understand.
Oh my gosh, you're so right!
Brilliant.
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