Fireman
Journey to Self-Transformation: Embracing Challenges and Finding the Glow
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How long and lonely the trip to being a better man
Reflecting on the challenging and solitary journey towards self-improvement.
Leave behind all you love, all of your friends
Choosing personal growth over attachments, leaving loved ones and friends behind.
Trading in your chips for pennies
Exchanging valuable experiences or assets for something less significant.
Trading in your demons for lessons
Transforming inner struggles or personal demons into valuable life lessons.
Trading up forever man
Continuously striving for improvement and better circumstances.
Yea you're trading up forever man
Emphasizing the perpetual nature of seeking improvement.
When I look behind me I see silhouettes,
Reflecting on the past, seeing fading memories represented as silhouettes.
Ever growing smaller as time takes its best
Acknowledging that time diminishes the significance of past experiences.
It doesn't mean I hate you
Clarifying that distance or change doesn't imply hatred but a necessity for personal growth.
Like just means I have to grow
Stating the willingness to evolve and develop as an individual.
I am a fireman
Identifying oneself as a metaphorical "fireman" on a quest for enlightenment or positivity.
And I'm seeking out that glow
Expressing a pursuit of the inner warmth or positivity associated with being a fireman.
The only thing keepin' these legs moving is knowing things will turn around again soon
Finding motivation in the belief that challenging times will eventually improve.
Life is hard when you're sloggin' through deja vu after deja vu
Describing the difficulty of facing repetitive and familiar challenges (deja vu).
Waters up to your legs and rising too
Symbolizing the rising difficulties in life with water levels increasing.
This isn't hell, this is right here, this is you
Rejecting the idea that the current struggles are equivalent to hell, emphasizing personal responsibility.
You build a kingdom of shit and complain about
Criticizing the tendency to create problems and complain about them.
Which way the wind blew
Highlighting the futility of blaming external factors for one's situation.
Life tears it down and no one cries with you
Expressing the loneliness of facing life's challenges without emotional support.
Life tears it down
Repeating the idea that life can be destructive and isolating.
Life tears it down and no one cries with you
Reiterating the theme of life's destructive nature and the lack of shared sorrow.
Life tears it down
Emphasizing the recurring nature of life tearing down, possibly highlighting despair.
Sit alone thinking no one's there
Isolation and the feeling of being unheard or unnoticed.
Ignoring talking from outside the door
Ignoring external influences and conversations, choosing solitude.
Never opened, never touched
Describing a closed-off and untouched aspect of the self.
Never wondered very much about
Indicating a lack of curiosity or introspection about personal development.
How I became the man I am
Reflecting on personal responsibility for one's current state, blaming others in the past.
Always blaming others, my teachers, my parents
Acknowledging a pattern of blaming external influences instead of self-realization.
Never realizing I was coding myself from day one
Realizing the influence of personal choices in shaping one's identity from an early age.
I'm a computer in a world of flesh
Metaphorically depicting oneself as a computer in a human world.
I'm a computer doing its fucking best
Expressing dedication and effort in navigating life despite the challenges.
It doesn't mean I hate you
Reiterating that change and growth are not fueled by hatred but by necessity.
I just means I have to grow
Affirming the commitment to personal development and growth.
I am a fireman
Repeating the identity as a "fireman" and the quest for inner warmth or positivity.
Seeking out that glow
Continuing the theme of seeking enlightenment or positivity as a fireman.
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