Lyrics
Watch you when you say
Observing your words
What you are and when you blame
Noticing your actions and attributing responsibility
Everyone, you broken king
Referring to oneself as a damaged ruler
Watch you change the frame or
Monitoring how you perceive things
Watch you when you take your aim
Observing your intentions and goals
At the sum of everything
Reflecting on the entirety of life
'Cause you and your heart
Commenting on the distance between you and your emotions
Shouldn't feel so far apart
Expressing the sentiment that this emotional distance shouldn't exist
You can choose what you take
Emphasizing the power to choose what affects you
Why you gotta break and make it feel so hard
Questioning the need to experience pain and difficulty
Lay there in the street
Imagining a state of vulnerability, akin to shattered glass on the road
Like broken glass reflecting pieces of the sun
Describing the broken fragments reflecting sunlight
But you're not the flame
Differentiating oneself from destructive forces
You got the people passing by
Noting the presence of people passing by
Because you know what you don't like
Understanding personal dislikes
It's just so easy, it's just so easy
Highlighting the simplicity of disliking something
But you and your heart
Reiterating the emotional distance between you and your heart
Shouldn't feel so far apart
Re-emphasizing that this emotional gap is undesirable
You can choose what you take
Reaffirming the ability to choose one's emotional responses
Why you gotta break and make it feel so hard
Questioning the necessity of making things difficult
Oh and you and your heart
Repeating the idea of emotional closeness being ideal
Shouldn't feel so far apart
Reiterating that emotional distance is undesirable
You can choose what you take
Reiterating the power to choose one's emotional responses
Why you gotta break and make it feel so hard
Questioning the need for unnecessary hardship
You draw so many lines in the sand
Metaphorically describing setting boundaries
Lost the fingernails on your hands
Expressing the toll taken by stress and worry
How you're gonna scratch any backs?
Pondering how to seek support or assistance
Better hope the tide will take our lines away
Optimistically anticipating the natural resolution of problems
Take all our lines and
Advocating letting go of self-imposed limitations
Hope the tide will take our lines and
Repeating the hope for resolution
Hope the tide will take our lines away
Reiterating the desire for problems to be washed away
Take all our lines away
Emphasizing the hope for complete resolution
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