![]() ![]() The first line about his brother living vicariously through his child's success makes a poignant point like there’s this stage in your life where you're no longer dreaming and have finally settled down. Flying for a while is a reminder that life is temporary, a point emphasized repeatedly on “People and Things”, but the fleetingness shouldn't deter leaping for that ultimate sensation. It's something very powerful, but I feel like Andrew captures it quite well with the emotion he puts into the chorus. ![]() My first DMT experience especially comes to mind, where the whole world came at me in this rainbow wave of soothing energy, assuring me that all the work I had done trying to find myself had led me right to this perfect moment. The idea of synesthesia, or hearing color in this case is a phenomena often associated with the use of psychedelics. Grab your wings they’re putting gravity on trial It doesn’t matter if you’re invisible to everyone else as long as there’s someone who can appreciate the emotions of your experience. Saying there's more to life than the songs he writes (that most either won't hear or understand) is a foreshadowing of the next verses adding more to the equation with being in love. This verse seems like a very modest way of summing up his experience, but a line like "shooting fireworks at falling stars" connotes a power to add color to the scenery and affect a visible change. There’s more to life than singing songs we write Living in the shadow of the moon is a reminder that for most people all the emotion of their accomplishments and trials are dwarfed when taken from the context of a larger world. Pictures from a space shuttle are removed and only capture moments. ![]() I noticed he uses a lot of the same metaphors in many of his songs, like references to space and airplanes. He uses every tense, reflecting on where he and everyone he loves are in past, present, and future. This first section seems to be a reflection about time and space. I've always been a huge Andrew McMahon fan, and I'm so happy I got to see this performed a few weeks ago.Īlthough it's stylistically a bit different from JM, the quality of the lyrics is equally incredible I see colors, and I don't feel the choice Like many things, this is a storm we're meant to ride Put on your wings that put gravity on trial There's more to life than singing songs we wrote Shooting fireworks and falling stars, and prison bars Collecting trophies for the songs they wrote ![]()
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