This is a song about the memory of a past lifetime where a happy relationship was once existent. Over time, the bonds that held them together have dissipated. He is begging to realize that life is more than what is painted in a rosy picture. Day by day he begins to understand more fully as he contem...
[Verse 1]
Don't try to wake me up
Even if the sun really does come out tomorrow
Don't believe anything you say anymore
In the morn, in the morning
Bricks to this old house are breaking
Steel would have weathered but now forlorning
It's alarming how loud the silence screams
No warn, no warn, no warning
Addictions fill the table where the family used to sit
And conversate, conversate to the sounds
To the sounds of the record player
With its jumping needle and the lights that grow dim over time
[Chorus]
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
[Verse 2]
Are you where you thought you'd be?
So beautiful and only twenty-three
Opposition rests in the hearts
With no, with no, with no opportunity
It's not that we don't talk
It's just no one really listens and honesty fades
Like a politician lost in the course
All smiles, but no one remembers our names
[Chorus]
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
[Bridge]
Don't try to wake me up
Even if the sun really does comes out tomorrow
Don't believe anything I say anymore, in the morn, in the morning
[Chorus]
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
Alexithymia was written by Stephen Christian & Joseph Milligan.
Alexithymia was produced by Aaron Sprinkle.
Anberlin released Alexithymia on Tue Feb 20 2007.