As Time Goes By
Reviving Senses: A Tale of Redemption and Regret
Lyrics
Like you're alive again
Expressing the desire to feel alive once more
Take ten broken limbs
Suggesting the need to overcome challenges and difficulties
And make it alright for them
Turning things around and making them right for others
And I needed you more,
Expressing a significant need for someone
More than you'll ever notice
Emphasizing the depth of need that may go unnoticed
But I need to do more
Expressing the desire to do more for a deeper connection
If you're to ever know this
Highlighting the importance of the other person knowing this
Or you won't care at all
Emphasizing the potential lack of concern from the other person
No, you won't care at all
-For you won't care at all
-No, you won't care at all
-Dance puppet boy
Using metaphorical language to portray performance and approval-seeking
If you do a good job
-Then they'll want you again,
-Give it all that you've got
-Show them the joy and the pain and the ending
-Then do it again, and we'll all stop pretending
-They'll pay more attention to what's before mentioned
-As you bob your head
-'cause you're not even listening
-A very small few of you even give meanings
-But laugh, clown boy, laugh
-'cause it's always so pleasing
-Feel, damn you, feel
Commanding to feel alive again
Like you're alive again
Reiterating the desire to feel alive
I needed to know,
Questioning the impact and significance of one's actions
Needed a show of hands
-For all this couldn't be sure
-As we see a lot of them
-And I traded it all,
-Could I make a difference
-At all?
-I met a woman,
Narrating a story of missed opportunities and regrets in a relationship
She was wonderful,
-Everything perfect,
-We both had the world
-But I filled up my senses
-With thoughts from the ghost
-And I spent her life savings
-Left no room for
-Both of us
-Crying and trying
Describing emotional turmoil and the difficulty of communication
And screaming aloud,
-I barely can see her tumultuous crowds
-Are careful to hide her and sing much too loud
-See, you don't even know what I'm talking about
-Feel, damn you, feel
Revisiting the theme of feeling alive and questioning impact
Like you're alive again
-I needed you more,
-Than you would ever've noticed
-Et Al
-Couldn't be sure
-That you would ever notice
-But I gave it my all
-Did I make a difference at all?
-Like you're alive again
Reiterating the desire to feel alive and overcome challenges
Take ten broken limbs
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