Maybe I'm Dreaming album cover

Owl City – Rainbow Veins Lyrics

Electronic

High rise, veins of the avenue
Bright eyes and subtle variations of blue
Everywhere is balanced there like a rainbow above you
Street lights glisten on the boulevard
And cold nights make staying alert so hard
For heaven's sake, keep me awake so I won't be caught off guard
Clearly I am a passerby but I'll find a place to stay
Dear pacific day, won't you take me away?

Small town hearts of the New Year
Brought down by gravity, crystal clear
City fog and brave dialog converge on the frontier

Make haste, I feel your heartbeat
With new taste for speed, out on the street
Find a road to a humble abode where both of our routes meet

The silver sound is all around and the colors fall like snow
The feeling of letting go, I guess we'll never know

Cheer up and dry your damp eyes and tell me when it rains
And I'll blend up that rainbow above you and shoot it through your veins
'Cause your heart has a lack of color and we should've known
That we'd grow up sooner or later 'cause we wasted all our free time alone

Your nerves gather with the altitude
Exhale the stress so you don't come unglued
Somewhere there is a happy affair, a ghost of a good mood

Wide eyed, panic on the getaway
The high tide could take me so far away
VCR's and motorcars unite on the Seventh Day

A popular gauge will measure the rage of the new Post-Modern Age
'Cause somewhere along the line all the decades align

We were the crashing whitecaps
(On the ocean, on the ocean) On the ocean
What a lovely seaside holiday away
A palm tree in Christmas lights
(My emotion, my emotion) My emotion
Struck a sparkling tone like a xylophone
As we spent the day alone

Cheer up and dry your damp eyes and tell me when it rains
And I'll blend up that rainbow above you and shoot it through your veins
'Cause your heart has a lack of color and we should've known
That we'd grow up sooner or later 'cause we wasted all our free time alone

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Comments (7)

  • Anonymous
    I love this song! but what does it mean? i was thinking about a love. but ppl say drugs and that would make senselike where "both of our routs meet".this guy and a drug dealer meeting up? then "the silver sound is all around a colors fall like snow" meaning silver sound gun shot colors fall like snow blood?? just thought of that today. but i dont like thinking of it that way i like the love way it makes the song much better but either way i will still love it. anyone else have a clue?
  • Anonymous
    It has a nice sound to it but the lyrics don't actually make any sense. Most of their songs are like that.
  • Anonymous
    its telling you to freaking be happy!!its saying that like your heart isnt happy and you need to find love or somehting and live up to the fullest.
  • Anonymous
    first of all, it's only one guy, and his name is adam young. second of all, he's a Christian and he wouldn't be writing about drugs. his lyrics don't usually make a lot of sense but that's what makes it him.
  • Anonymous
    I love this song, but it really could be about drugs. And if it's not, I enjoy this song while smoking weed or doing other drugs anyway because the melody and the lyrics make me really happy while being stoned :) My friends laugh about my love to this song but it doesn't matter because it makes me feel really really happy! :) Ooooh I soooooo adore this song
  • Anonymous
    I think this song is about drugs but my sis says it's totally not so i am stumped
  • Anonymous
    i think that this song is about a guy and a girl that were in love, but found that they didn't really belong together and that they had a lot of strain on their relationship and that he's saying exactly that and he's just telling her that he knows that neither of them were happy and that they need to let go of each other and let go and have fun. but that's just what I think so.....