Multiple voices overlap in this lyrical piece about longing and disconnection. Speakers wrestle with refusing love, searching for authenticity, and feeling like castaways among billions of bottles, using superhero imagery and the recurring motif of messages in bottles to explore isolation and the desire for genuine connection.
The world was on fire, no one could save me but you. Strange what desire will make foolish people do. I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you. I never dreamed that I'd knew somebody like you.
No, I don't want to fall in love. No, I don't want to fall in love with you. Because you—
I've never felt this way. What a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you when I don't want to fall in love.
No, I don't want to fall in love with you.
Am I wrong?
Wrong?
Wrong?
Say you gotta choose another way.
Way. Way. Way.
I ain't trying to do what everybody else doing just 'cause everybody doing what they all do.
If one thing I know, I fall but I grow.
I'm walking down this road of mine, this road that I know.
So am I wrong thinking that we could be something for real?
Now I'm alone for trying to reach the things that I can't see. But that's just how I feel. But that's just how I feel. That's just how I feel, trying to reach the things that I can't see.
A year has passed since I wrote my note. I should have known this right from the start. Only hope can keep me together. Love can mend your life, but love can break your heart.
Message in a bottle.
Message in a bottle. 100 billion bottles washed up on the shore. Seems I'm not alone in being alone. 100 billion castaways looking for a home.
Achilles and his gold, Achilles and his gifts, Spider-Man's control, and Batman with his fists. And clearly I don't see myself up on the list. She said, where do you want to go? How much you want to risk? I'm not looking for somebody with some superhuman gifts, some superhero, some very fabulous, just something I can turn to somebody I can kiss. I want something like this.
Oh, I want something like this. Oh.
Somebody with some superhuman gifts, some superhero, so very helpless. Just something I can turn to, somebody I can miss.
I want a bitch like this. I want a bitch like this.
Feel my instincts here for you. Hey, now, by my bed for you. Hey, now. Hey, now.
Come be with me, babe. Come as you are. Come catch a vibe, babe. Free falling, baby, don't wake before I'm down. Free falling, baby, don't wake before I'm down. Come and touch me, baby, I need to be loved.
Turn away and kick up the red sand. Summer's gone and now I'm bleeding. I can tell now you're thinking of leaving.
