Lyrics

[Verse 1] Falling too fast to prepare for this Tripping in the world could be dangerous Everybody circling is vulturous Negative, nepotist Everybody waiting for the fall of man Everybody praying for the end of times Everybody hoping they could be the one But I was born to run, I was born for this [Pre-Chorus] Whip, whip Run me like a racehorse Pull me like a ripcord Break me down and build me up I wanna be the slip, slip Word upon your lip, lip Letter that you rip, rip Break me down and build me up [Chorus] Whatever it takes 'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins Whatever it takes 'Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains Whatever it takes Now, take me to the top I'm ready for whatever it takes 'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins I do what it takes [Verse 2] Always had a fear of being typical Looking at my body feeling miserable I'm always hanging on to the visual I wanna be invisible Looking at my years like a martyrdom Everybody needs to be a part of 'em I'll never be enough from the prodigal son I was born to run, I was born for this [Pre-Chorus] Whip, whip Run me like a racehorse Pull me like a ripcord Break me down and build me up I wanna be the slip, slip Word upon your lip, lip Letter that you rip, rip Break me down and build me up [Chorus] Whatever it takes 'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins I do whatever it takes 'Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains Whatever it takes Now take me to the top I'm ready for whatever it takes 'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins I do what it takes [Bridge] I'm hypocritical, egotistical Don't wanna be the parenthetical, hypothetical Working hard on something that I'm proud of, out of the box An epoxy to the world, the vision we've lost I'm an apostrophe A symbol to remind you that there's more to see A product of the system, a catastrophe Yet a masterpiece, yet I'm half-diseased And when I am deceased At least I'll go down to the grave and die happily And leave my body and my soul to be a part of thee I do what it takes [Chorus] Whatever it takes 'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins Whatever it takes 'Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains Whatever it takes Now take me to the top I'm ready for whatever it takes 'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins I do what it takes [Spoken: Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon] This whole time I felt like my pants were riding up on me but then I remembered that I did this Goodness sakes We're gonna play another song for you, this one's off our new record Uh, short story for you The first song I ever wrote, I was eleven years old I still remember it to this day, and uh I didn't have- my first instrument was piano, I played piano from six to sixteen For ten years as classical, just like Chopin, Beethoven, Bach, things like that And I think that's where I learned melody from, was a lot of classical instrument- instrumentation and melodic writing And when I was eleven years old, I didn't like my voice My brothers called me Cookie Monster from like Sesame Street Is that a thing in France, Sesame Street? You kinda know Cookie Monster, like [eating noises], you saw the cookies? Yeah Is that true Mac? Did you do it? Mac, was that you? No, you were the good brother, huh? Right, this is my brother Mac, he's also our manager of our whole career And he's a wonderful manager I don't know if it was Mac I think it probably was, to be honest Anyway, well after I got past all that trauma, the Cookie Monster trauma I turned- I was in a very uh- I started to feel depression for the first time in my life when I was in middle school So I was around eleven years old, and I just felt very foggy I wouldn't even say sad, I felt numb- I was very numb And I found myself feeling incredibly alive when I would make music So I'd write these songs for no one to hear And for a long time nobody did hear it, I just kept it to myself And I felt this sense of release that I'm sure so many people feel when you draw a picture When you create a piece of art When you code some beautiful piece of code When you write a book When any, y'know, any creative process It filled me in a way that I needed And then I just started to do it all the time So eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen Hundreds, hundreds, thousands of songs Literally thousands of songs Obsessively, compulsively, almost every day And the band can attest to this 'cause still, to this day, I'll still- Every album it's like two hundred songs It's actually a problem I think I think I need to still seek help for that (Wonderful problem) Oh yeah, It's a great problem for a band (Thank you for this problem) Anyway, long story short Because there's so many songs, there's some themes that I just happen to come back to all the time 'Cause it's all autobiographical And one of those themes is a feeling of not being good enough And I don't know where that comes from, maybe it's just the human experience Maybe everyone feels it But I certainly feel it quite a bit and I'll write these songs about self-empowerment Really just for myself In that moment, on that day, to get myself out of bed To get out of my victimhood To get up and go out And then I know the day will be better And it's not always better, but at least I tried Anyway in this, long story short, this is one of those songs So it's interesting, cause I'll meet people all the time who'll be like "Man, I listened to that song and there was- you had so much confidence in that song and this bravado" And I'm always like "awesome", but really in my heart I'm like "Man I wrote that on a really shitty day when I was feeling not any of those things" And I was writing it to try to get out of that But it's been incredible to see that y'know, people get what they need from music And that's the beauty of it Anyway This song is called Eyes Closed