Hiding
Echoes of Lost Time: Year Over Year's Emotional Journey
Lyrics
Smiling
Expressing happiness or contentment.
Pictures of you and me
Reflecting on shared memories through photographs.
Outside our house on lakeview road
Describing a location, possibly a home on Lakeview Road.
Before you had left me crying
Recalling a time when the speaker was left in tears.
Too young to understand
Acknowledging youth and lack of understanding during a past event.
That when you left
Referring to someone leaving, resulting in emotional pain.
You left and tore what I had in half
Expressing the profound impact of the departure on the speaker's life.
I'm the king of wasting time we don't have (Time that we don't have)
Admitting to a habit of wasting time that is limited or running out.
I wish I had more time with you (But let go too soon)
Expressing a desire for more time with a person who was let go too soon.
Left me cracked like a window (Looking into our backyard)
Describing emotional vulnerability and feeling shattered like a broken window.
In the house that I grew up in.
Reflecting on emotional pain within the context of the speaker's childhood home.
Hiding
Introducing the theme of hiding, possibly emotions or the truth.
When I had heard the news
Describing the speaker's emotional state upon hearing significant news.
I guess I was scared
Admitting to fear and a sense of cowardice in facing a difficult situation.
I was cowardice
Acknowledging a reluctance to say goodbye.
To say goodbye to you
Describing a long journey to meet someone at the hospital.
Driving twelve hours through the night
Expressing a connection between love and a visual detail in the person's eyes.
To meet you at the hospital
Recalling a significant event at the hospital.
Love was yellow in your eyes
Associating the color yellow with love in the person's eyes.
I'm the king of wasting time we don't have (Time that we don't have)
Repeating the theme of wasting time in a context of limited time.
I wish I had more time with you (But let go too soon)
Reiterating the wish for more time with the departed person.
Left me cracked like a window (Looking into our backyard)
Repeating the metaphor of feeling broken like a cracked window.
In the house that I grew up in
Revisiting the emotional impact within the speaker's childhood home.
I'm the king of wasting time we don't have (Time that we don't have)
Repeating the theme of wasting time in a context of limited time.
I wish I had more time with you (But let go too soon)
Reiterating the wish for more time with the departed person.
Left me cracked like a window (Looking into our backyard)
Repeating the metaphor of feeling broken like a cracked window.
In the house that I grew up in
Revisiting the emotional impact within the speaker's childhood home.
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