Amity - Outside Looking In [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

Verse 1:
When you wake up and look down to find the world at your feet
It makes you think about how much you work in a week
Is it really worth it for this circus of freaks?
Absurd as it seems, you’ll see that person is me
But despite my life, I’ve yet learned
If you play with fire, you might just get burned
To stay alive, I’ve tried to set stern/
Rules, but I get tired when I am left hurt
It turns out life’s like a cigarette
It’ll go fast if you live it like it’s limitless
It won’t pass if you watch the smoke pirouette
But you don’t care, so you just take a bigger breath
Inhale to die and ignite the bitter end
You don’t need to light a life deprived of intellect
The materials are instilled to spin a web
And every choice is another chance so don’t give in yet

Hook:
Now I’m on the outside, looking in
An out-of-body experience of what I could have been
Observing the decisions of a foolish kid
But I know I made the right choices and pulled the pin

Verse 2:
The choices I’ve made led to where I am today
I just hope to splash colours on areas of grey
Life passes while you’re staring into space
Soon there’ll be someone else standing in your place
So remember, seize the day and embrace opportunities
Lead the way and celebrate what you’re doing here
I was lost but I found my true self
Because when you don’t stop, you’re bound to do well
Getting criticised by a cynic hurts but/
Always seeming to be your own critic’s worse when/
You’re a pedantic perfectionist who isn’t perfect
Frantically searching for the right beat to spit a verse to
Happiness comes from coming to terms with the fact/
That you’re not perfect, in fact, I’m further from that
You learn that you work just to earn what you have
But you won’t know you’ve got it ‘till it’s turned to your back

(Hook)

Verse 3:
Don’t mess with the butterfly effect
You might not notice all the underlying stress
I sleep at night and there’s nothing I regret
I find peace of mind that the sun will rise again
Over time I’ve made some hard decisions
And there’s more to come that I can’t envision
Every day I’m making it a farther distance
But I take every step on the path with wisdom
From start to finish, I’ll die a happy man
I played my cards right, despite a crappy hand
Slipping through my fingers like trying to grab at sand
I made a castle out of mine inside a magic land
Live deliberately like the thunder and the rain
Not passively like the blood pumping to your brain
Looking back, there’s nothing I would change
Sure, I made some wrong turns but become what I had aimed for