one of my favorite songs they've put out despite the completely listenable discography.
This song almost starts off as a love song to a past love or moment in time that he once loved. Its not just the lyrics, but the tone of the song where he feels so much regret about what has transpired to change him by so much. he feels like a completely different person with no chance of redemption or returning to what he used to have. Whether its drugs, the loss of innocence, or just the long road of mistakes that have changed him, he knows his days back on ellis drive are gone. He will no longer be the same man everyone once saw him as, and possibly the favorite time in his life.
As the chorus comes, he recognizes that its all nostalgia, but perhaps he feels as though he isn't a good enough person to become what he once was. theres no redemption left in his heart or his soul and he is too far gone. his eyes are bloodshot, and he thinks that even if he had a chance to relive the best days of his life, he couldn't maintain the man he once was or the relationship he misses so deeply. he has failed his aspirations and dreams so deeply with all the time wasted fucking up.
the second verse is absolutely the pinnacle of his failures. his knowledge of the devil shows that he has spent time in sin. he has been too messed up and has screwed around too much to see that all thetime he spent screwing around has changed him. changed him so much that his innocence, a past relationship, a person he had wished to be are all gone and that he has wasted a lot of things in pursuit of his happiness when it turns out years later that he had it the whole time but he was too blind to see it.
one of my favorite songs they've put out despite the completely listenable discography.
This song almost starts off as a love song to a past love or moment in time that he once loved. Its not just the lyrics, but the tone of the song where he feels so much regret about what has transpired to change him by so much. he feels like a completely different person with no chance of redemption or returning to what he used to have. Whether its drugs, the loss of innocence, or just the long road of mistakes that have changed him, he knows his days back on ellis drive are gone. He will no longer be the same man everyone once saw him as, and possibly the favorite time in his life. As the chorus comes, he recognizes that its all nostalgia, but perhaps he feels as though he isn't a good enough person to become what he once was. theres no redemption left in his heart or his soul and he is too far gone. his eyes are bloodshot, and he thinks that even if he had a chance to relive the best days of his life, he couldn't maintain the man he once was or the relationship he misses so deeply. he has failed his aspirations and dreams so deeply with all the time wasted fucking up. the second verse is absolutely the pinnacle of his failures. his knowledge of the devil shows that he has spent time in sin. he has been too messed up and has screwed around too much to see that all thetime he spent screwing around has changed him. changed him so much that his innocence, a past relationship, a person he had wished to be are all gone and that he has wasted a lot of things in pursuit of his happiness when it turns out years later that he had it the whole time but he was too blind to see it.