“Barely” is about finding the cure to the epidemic that we all live in. No one person has the same exact opinions and perceptions as another, yet time and time again, the destructive notion that we all “barely” become what we want to be continues to persist. The song reflects on those tensions, argu...
[Verse 1]
You, you pick up
Where she left off
But I need a change
I get away
The way you blow my phone up when
It’s getting late
I lose my faith
[Pre-Chorus]
There’s no easy way to say this
I’m afraid
Why you always want tomorrow
Without today?
[Chorus]
Well ask me if I feel
Ask me if I’m real
Ask me if I’m anything at all
And I will say barely
Barely, barely
[Verse 2]
You, you give up
Where she left off
Say I need to change
I play it safe
The way you curse my voicemail
When it’s getting late
I lose my faith
[Pre-Chorus]
There’s no easy way to say this
I’m afraid
Why you always want tomorrow
Without today?
[Chorus]
Well ask me if I feel
Ask me if I’m real
Ask me if I’m anything at all
And I will say barely
Barely, barely
Ask me if I feel
Ask me if I’m real
Ask me if I’m anything at all
And I will say barely
Barely, barely
[Bridge]
I knew a girl from the Jersey Shore
She used to make me make the drive
When she wanted more, and we would
Come alive, come alive, come alive, come alive
She told me time don’t exist
It’s a gun in hand and we all
Pull the trigger just to get her mad and we
Come alive, come alive, come alive, come alive
And all the pretty people
With their silhouettes
Wait for Armageddon's coming
Just to clear their debts, oh yeah we
Come alive, come alive, come alive, come alive
And if we ever get better
It’s because ourselves
And if we make our way to heaven
It’s cause we’re in hell, oh yeah we
Come alive, come alive, come alive, come alive
I kill, when you kill, people
And I will, if you will, equal
Come alive, come alive, come alive, come alive
I kill, when you kill, people
And I will, if you will, equal
Come alive, come alive, come alive, come alive
I kill, when you kill, people
And I will, if you will, equal
Come alive, come alive, come alive, come alive
I kill, when you kill, people
And I will, if you will, equal
Come alive, come alive, come alive, come alive
I said
I kill, when you kill, people
And I will, if you will, equal
Come alive, come alive, come alive, come alive
Barely was written by Mike Raj.
“I learned through a wise conversation with someone that all the answers are inside of us. We do not have to sit around and wait for a Deus Ex Machina to come save us – we are the machine. Once we focus on our humanity and our ability to connect and direct our courses, we can then begin to truly imp...