Weightless

Album: Nothing Personal (2009)
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  • Manage me, I'm a mess
    Turn a page, I'm a book half unread
    I wanna be laughed at, laughed with, just because
    I wanna feel weightless and that should be enough
    But I'm stuck in this fucking rut
    Waiting on a secondhand pick-me-up
    And I'm over getting older

    If I could just find the time
    I would never let another day go by
    I'm over getting old

    Maybe it's not my weekend but it's gonna be my year
    And I'm so sick of watching while the minutes pass as I go nowhere
    And this is my reaction to everything I fear
    'Cause I've been going crazy
    I don't want to waste another minute here

    Make believe that I impress
    That every word by design turns a head
    I wanna feel reckless, wanna live it up just because (just because)
    I wanna feel weightless, 'cause that would be enough

    If I could just find the time
    I would never let another day go by
    I'm over getting old

    Maybe it's not my weekend but it's gonna be my year
    And I'm so sick of watching while the minutes pass as I go nowhere
    And this is my reaction to everything I fear
    'Cause I've been going crazy
    I don't want to waste another minute here

    This could be all I've waited for
    (I've waited, I've waited for)
    This could be everything, I don't wanna dream anymore

    Maybe it's not my weekend but it's gonna be my year
    And I've been going crazy, I'm m stuck in here

    Maybe it's not my weekend but it's gonna be my year
    And I'm so sick of watching while the minutes pass as I go nowhere
    this is my reaction to everything I fear
    'Cause I've been going crazy
    I don't want to waste another minute here Writer/s: Alexander William Gaskarth, Jack Bassam Barakat, Matthew Bach Squire, Robert Ryan Dawson, Zachary Steven Merrick
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Ann from Shawnee, OkI interpret this song differently, kind of. To me this song is about anorexia. I've dealt with an eating disorder and am still. "manage me, I'm a mess, turn a page, I'm a book, half unread" means, in my opinion, I'm a mess, I'm falling apart, get to know me more, I'm not what everyone thinks I am. "I wanna feel weightless, and that should be enough," I think that one is pretty self explanatory
  • Ashley from Oshkosh, AlI heard in an interview that this was the last song on Nothing Personal that Alex Gaskarth wrote and he was kind of having a hard time writing songs for this album. If you listen to the words of the song, you can kind of hear his frustration of being stuck in a room trying to get some lyrics onto paper. haha. I think he also used some of these lyrics from old blogs of his.
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