The track covers his love for his now girlfriend, actress Odessa Adlon and their perspectives in life.
Fallen
Jaden Lyrics
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Take me to the truth
Take me home with you
Change my taste in music
(I'm fallen) make me rise with you
(She likes me) I'm surprised you do
I've seen better days, yeah
And my soul, you penetrate, I need your energy
Your vibrations make me levitate, sipping Hennessy
Reading bell hooks, she just sayin'
I'm surprised you do (baby)
I won't lie to you (I love you)
I'm your guy who's new
Hide me from the blue
I'm dying on the moon
And I just needed you
Baby, you are so unusual like cutting cuticles
But that is just what makes you beautiful
Like watching tulips grow
When you walk, it's just slow motion baby
Why you moving slow?
And when you talk, I got my lasers on you like a UFO
Girl, your eyes are like the open sea, the simple poetry
This whole generation, O-M-G, I see your soul, it's older
We should build a city overseas, this country kinda cold
I mean they feed the children dopamine
And leave them on the sofa
I mean, ah, I need someone to renounce with, whoa
Ice Bucket Challenge in the fountain, whoa
Chance of finding you, one in a hundred thousand, whoa
I just wanna kiss you on the mountain, whoa
Spend some time with you
I might bend the rules
'Cause I'm in love with you
You can see the truth
I will show you soon
Just meet me on the moon
She said, "love is a strong word"
Said, "love is a strong word"
Well I'ma sing it for you, baby, I'll be your song bird
If you don't have no loving
How we supposed to move on, word?
A brother just got shot
Because he stopped on the wrong curb
If love is a strong word, then love is a strong word
But we need lots of loving if we wanna move on, word
And I'ma sing it to you, baby, I'll be your song bird
But I'ma keep it honest with you
I won't lie to you
My pride dies with you
Girl, I love you, too
(Mommy)
I will see you soon (mommy, mommy)
Your homework is due
What's the difference from the future and the past
Just seen bad men, Lex Luther, drag wasteman in the Jag (why?)
Started floating through the valley of the City of the Angels gripping cash
Now I'm bleeding on the people, I forgot that I still got an open gash
I'm the realest kid you never had, baby
I won't lie to you
My pride dies with you
The lyrics of Jaden Smith's song "Fallen" are filled with love, spirituality, and self-reflection that make the listener connect with the emotions that come with the lyrics. The song speaks about love, the struggle of the youth, the search for identity, and the need to connect with oneself and others. The chorus emphasizes the desire to find truth, the need to be guided by someone who can help us rise, and the power of love to heal and transform lives.
Throughout the verses, Jaden compares his love interest to things that are beautiful and unique, like the open sea, and tulips growing. He talks about the need for human connection and the importance of finding someone to share his experiences with while also acknowledging that love can be a strong word, but one that is essential for healing the world.
By saying "she said love is a strong word, well, I'mma sing it for you, baby, I'll be your songbird," Jaden is emphasizing the importance of love and how it can be a transformative force in the world. The song's outro expresses Jaden's willingness to be honest and vulnerable with himself and his loved ones, showing his growth as a person.
Overall, "Fallen" is a complex song that talks about different aspects of life and love, making it relatable and compelling to many listeners.
Line by Line Meaning
Take me to the truth
Jaden wants to be shown the truth about something.
Take me home with you
Jaden wants to be close to someone he cares about.
Change my taste in music
Jaden is open to new experiences and wants to expand his interests.
(I'm fallen) make me rise with you
Jaden admits to being in a vulnerable state but wants someone to lift him up.
(She likes me) I'm surprised you do
Jaden is grateful and surprised that someone he likes shares his feelings.
Look, your love's like a river, bae
Jaden compares the love he feels for someone to a flowing river.
I've seen better days, yeah
Jaden has had struggles in the past and things have been better for him.
And my soul, you penetrate, I need your energy
Jaden feels a deep connection with someone and needs their energy to thrive.
Your vibrations make me levitate, sipping Hennessy
Being around someone makes Jaden feel uplifted and he is enjoying a drink while in their presence.
Reading bell hooks, she just sayin'
Jaden is reading a book by bell hooks and taking in the messages being conveyed.
I won't lie to you (baby)
Jaden promises to be honest with someone he cares for.
I love you
Jaden expresses his love for someone.
I'm your guy who's new
Jaden is someone new in a relationship.
Hide me from the blue
Jaden wants to be shielded from sadness or negative emotions.
I'm dying on the moon
Jaden is using a metaphor to convey his emotional state, feeling isolated and alone.
And I just needed you
Jaden needs someone he cares about to make him feel better.
Baby, you are so unusual like cutting cuticles
Jaden finds the person he cares for to be unique, comparing them to a beauty treatment for nails.
But that is just what makes you beautiful
Jaden finds the quirks and unique features of someone he cares for to be attractive.
Like watching tulips grow
Jaden compares being around the person he cares for to watching a beautiful natural process unfold.
When you walk, it's just slow motion baby
Jaden enjoys watching someone he cares for walk in slow motion.
Why you moving slow?
Jaden wants to know why someone he cares for is walking slowly.
And when you talk, I got my lasers on you like a UFO
Jaden is paying close attention to someone he cares for when they speak, using a playful metaphor.
Girl, your eyes are like the open sea, the simple poetry
Jaden comments on the beauty of someone's eyes and the simplicity of their nature.
This whole generation, O-M-G, I see your soul, it's older
Jaden sees a kindred spirit in someone he cares about, describing their soul as wise beyond their years.
We should build a city overseas, this country kinda cold
Jaden suggests starting a new life with someone he cares about in a new location.
I mean they feed the children dopamine
Jaden is critical of some societal norms, suggesting that children are being overstimulated with technology.
And leave them on the sofa
Jaden is suggesting that children are being left to their own devices, without proper engagement or stimulation.
I need someone to renounce with, whoa
Jaden wants to find someone who shares his feelings on societal issues and will work towards change alongside him.
Ice Bucket Challenge in the fountain, whoa
Jaden suggests doing something unusual to start a movement and promote change.
Chance of finding you, one in a hundred thousand, whoa
Jaden recognizes that finding someone he cares about is rare and remarkable.
I just wanna kiss you on the mountain, whoa
Jaden wants to share a moment of intimacy with someone he cares about in a beautiful natural setting.
Spend some time with you
Jaden wants to enjoy the company of someone he cares about.
I might bend the rules
Jaden is suggesting that he will go against the norm to be with someone he cares about.
'Cause I'm in love with you
Jaden expresses his feelings of love towards someone.
You can see the truth
Jaden believes someone he cares about can understand the sincerity of his feelings.
I will show you soon
Jaden promises to demonstrate his love for someone.
Just meet me on the moon
Jaden suggests meeting and spending time alone with someone he cares about.
She said, 'love is a strong word'
Someone Jaden cares about critiques his use of the word 'love.'
Said, 'love is a strong word'
Jaden acknowledges that love is a powerful emotion.
Well I'ma sing it for you, baby, I'll be your song bird
Jaden will continue expressing his feelings through his music and lyrics.
If you don't have no loving
Jaden believes that without love, there is no hope.
How we supposed to move on, word?
Jaden questions how people are supposed to progress without love.
A brother just got shot
Jaden is saddened by recent acts of violence and tragedy.
Because he stopped on the wrong curb
Jaden suggests that this tragedy could have been prevented if circumstances had been different.
But we need lots of loving if we wanna move on, word
Jaden believes that love is a necessary component to overcoming challenges and moving forward in life.
And I'ma sing it to you, baby, I'll be your song bird
Jaden will continue using his music to express his feelings and spread a message of love and hope.
But I'ma keep it honest with you
Jaden promises to always be truthful with someone he cares about.
My pride dies with you
Jaden is willing to let go of his pride to be with someone he cares about.
Girl, I love you, too
Jaden expresses his love for someone.
(Mommy)
Jaden is addressing someone close to him with a term of endearment.
I will see you soon (mommy, mommy)
Jaden promises to see someone close to him in the near future.
Your homework is due
Jaden reminds someone close to him of their responsibilities and obligations.
What's the difference from the future and the past
Jaden is questioning the distinction between time periods.
Just seen bad men, Lex Luther, drag wasteman in the Jag (why?)
Jaden has witnessed negative actions and is questioning the motives behind them.
Started floating through the valley of the City of the Angels gripping cash
Jaden has been successful and is enjoying his wealth while in Los Angeles.
Now I'm bleeding on the people, I forgot that I still got an open gash
Jaden realizes that despite his success and wealth, he still has emotional wounds that are impacting him.
I'm the realest kid you never had, baby
Jaden believes that he is authentic and genuine, despite not having a prior relationship with someone he cares for.
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Jaden Smith, Tavon Thompson
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@adrian-cv1tu
Yeah
Take me to the truth
Take me home with you
Change my taste in music
I'm fallen, make me rise with you
(She likes me) I'm surprised you do
Look, your love's like a river, bae
I've seen better days, yeah
And my soul, you penetrate, I need your energy
Vibrations make me levitate, sipping Hennessy
Reading bell hooks, she just sayin'
I'm surprised you do (baby)
I won't lie to you (I love you)
I'm your guy who's new
Hide me from the blue
I'm dying on the moon
And I just needed you
Baby, you are so unusual like cutting cuticles
But that is just what makes you beautiful
Like watching tulips grow
When you walk, it's just slow motion baby
Why you moving slow?
And when you talk, I got my lasers on you like a UFO
Girl your eyes are like the open sea, the simple poetry
This whole generation, OMG, I see its soul, it's older
We should build a city overseas, this country kinda cold
I mean they feed the children dopamine
And leave them on the sofa
I mean, ah, I need someone to renounce with, whoa
Ice bucket challenge in the fountain, whoa
Chance of finding you, one in a hundred thousand, whoa woah
I just wanna kiss you on the mountain, whoa
Spend some time with you
I might bend the rules
'Cause I'm in love with you
You can see the truth
I will show you soon
Just meet me on the moon
She said: Love is a strong word
Said: Love is a strong word
Well I'ma sing it for you baby, I'll be your song bird
If you don't have no loving
How we supposed to move on, word?
Heard a brother just got shot
Because he stopped on the wrong curb
If love is a strong word, love is a strong word
Then we'll need lots of loving if we wanna move on, word
And I'ma sing it to you, baby, I'll be your song bird
But I'ma keep it honest with you
I won't lie to you
My pride dies with you
Girl, I love you too
I will see you soon
Your homework is due
@TheBlackWizardADOS
For those who are confused about some of the imagery in this music video, or those that want to listen, I'd like to provide my perspective on it. That is, if it's alright with you. These images are very interesting so I'd like to share with some of you what's on my mind. Now; this may be long, so if you don't feel like reading a lot, I recommend you do not read this comment.
Getting right into it, there are many things you'll recognize as the video goes through it's transitions bare with me and I'll try to address everything;
There is a story being told here, and we can see that through the linear nature of the video. It has a clear beginning, middle and end. Which means there is recognition of transition from one plane of existence into the next. Which would also denote recognition in some level of time, some awareness of moment to moment. Jaden in the beginning of the video is still, calm, and unmoving. It's not until the music starts, or the frequency begins, that we see his struggle for life. We see his pain and it is even expressed through his dance movements. Pain on this plane can only persist when a person denies the truth and in doing so clings to a false reality. (i.e. Jaden repeats "Take me to the truth.") The reality we're in, or at least as we know it now, is always painful, but that pain exists to teach you a lesson which will move you from this reality to the next. Time is an important factor here and I'll explain it in the other bullets.
The scenes (with the exception of one) have a transition from daytime to nighttime. Entering and leaving. Jaden entered this reality when the frequency hit (when the music started) and the entire time the music was playing he clung to this existence. He left this reality at the end when he died, and we can see him preparing for his departure when he put on his jacket. In fact, you'll notice when he begins his verses is when he does the most clinging. He jumps up from the ground, struggling against the inevitable death scene and begins his dances, fights for his life. He vomits, which is a struggle in and of itself. A struggle to belong where you don't. Vomiting is rejection, and this process is also a story of rejection. He fights the silence of nothing and becomes active, rather than passive. This is when he is grasping for this reality that we know now. When the singing comes through, the frequency of the music changes, and he starts to "die" in the music video.
The singing message generally speaks of leaving or transitioning out, while the rap verses generally speak of staying with this "love" feeling. So we can see that there is a level of conflict here. In fact throughout the whole song the conflict is apparent. The scenes take place in the past, yet he is wearing futuristic clothing, he says she loves him in the beginning and then that she doesn't at the end. (She likes me... I'm surprised you do. Versus the ending, You say love is a strong word, if love is a strong word, then I'ma sing it for you baby, I'll be your song bird.) In the verses it would seem that he's suffering through this conflict in the name of what we know as "love" (seemingly unrequited), but what he knew as love was not true love. Love has no true opposite. The "love" that we know on this plane of existence is simply the addiction feeling from the ego, that someone or something can give us (or in this case give our ego) that will distract us from the pain of this reality. This is why we pursue it in the first place, to reach that peace of the next level consciousness, to escape conflict and that is important. When we first fall in "love" with another person, the feeling is unbelievably distracting from the torture and suffering of the world, but like all addictions, the high begins to wear off and the destructive natures of our ego (the thinking mind, the entity we confuse as ourselves) begin to reflect upon one another. We begin feeding a negative cycle which, as long as the ego (desire) is involved, can only end in demise (end of the relationship) at worse case or in greater suffering (a suffering greater than when you were alone) at the least. The wounded Jaden traveling through the video represents our ego, because the ego is suffering. The ego is the part of ourselves that is manufactured over time. The part of us that lives in the past and then reflects upon the future. (Jaden exists in the past but reflects the future with his clothing.) The ego does not exist in the NOW. It can only exist because of time and time is false. The only thing we have is now. Past and future exist only in the human mind.
The ego Jaden represents is struggling to live, because the ego knows only struggle, it needs conflict to continue life. That's why when the verses start, and he begins speaking about the conflict of the "love" feeling, Jaden is the most active. Digging a little more into the ego, it tells you who you are and what to expect based events that no longer exist. It deals mainly in fear. It projects predictions of future moments which may be harmful based on those events. The ego is the lower, animal consciousness in the human nature. It tells us how to protect ourselves, but in doing so, it constructs false fears. Fears which are intensified through the love addiction. In order to transition to another plane of existence however, the ego must die. Since time is a false construct of human consciousness, and ego is a construct of time. Then the ego is a false construct of self. Which means there is another self, a conscious self that exists outside the ego.
Here we enter the man in black. Always a step ahead of the ego. Always observing. Always Passive and guiding the ego where to go. When the video began and Jaden was convulsing through the small town. The man in black was observing, as if already there, observing him. When Jaden exited the house, the observer was already there, watching from the outside (on the right side of the screen), when Jaden went to get the coat which was hanging for his exit, the observer was there behind it waiting for him. When Jaden was listening to man on the moon, the observer was setting up the phone for Jaden to pick up. And after that, the observer had already beat him to the cliff and was already looking out into the nothing, before Jaden had arrived there. The man in black marks many things in this video. Transition being one. From one plane to the next. The passive watcher. But on the notion that this is a video of self discovery, he represents the consciousness outside of ego. Once the observer began watching what the ego was doing, how the ego reacted, he began his transition process. Awareness, or light, drives away the darkness. The consciousness has all the answers already, and was guiding Jaden to the way out. The only way to truly live, is to live in the moment because the moment is all you have. The moment is the only thing that is real. The future you stress about may or may not happen. The past is gone, but the moment is always. The moment exists and the consciousness is aware of the moment.
You'll notice there is a scene here, where Jaden does not die. He yields or submits onto his knees before nature. You'll also notice in that scene, unlike the other scenes that transition from day to night, in this one it is always day, he's always within the light. In this scene also, he moves the least. He is generally still. Except when he evokes the power of love to get in contact with the other self through the Kid Cudi record. Seen with the waving effect of his hand in the "I love you" hand sign and then on the Kid Cudi record before Jaden picks up the phone... of course this hand sign also has esoteric connotation, but that is for you to explore. This scene is the arrival, enlightenment, to be in light. This is the now. This is the moment, the situation that is always. Nothing changes except that he yields to the power of the universe at the end. He accepts all that is and falls before it. Coming to the end of the video we see in all other scenes, he dies. The ego is no more. ("My pride dies with you.") The love addiction which he thought existed does not pick up and he departs into another reality. You'll notice at the end of the music video when he's standing next to the man in black, that Jaden, after he hangs up, begins to phase out of the reality. There is a lot of emphasis on the moon also. (Meeting him there, dying there.) And honestly I'm not all the way sure what the symbolism is there. If anyone else knows feel free to express it.
I'll end this off by saying you will more than likely see what it is you want to see from this song's music video. Just like in all things. You may want to hear this explanation he provides to you, (i.e. "She likes me... I'm surprised you do.", "Meet me on the moon.", "I will show you soon.", "I love you."), as some sort of external experience but I'm thinking this video is more conveying an external expression of an internal process. Although there is an outer process he's describing, I believe it exists on top of the inner one he is conveying. What I'm saying is, when you hear these external references realize that they all exist as a reflection of self. When you have a "love" addiction to someone, the problems which you think they are giving you are actually you reflecting self onto that person. I believe if you are wise and see this for what it is, through that connection you can receive the lessons of the universe and transition to something outside the realm of what you thought was possible. That's what Jaden is doing here, he uses the love addiction as a conduit to transition to the next plane. Without getting too much deeper I'll leave things here.
If you read all of this congratulations! I hope you got something out of it! lol
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2024 everyone?
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Still vibey 🥃
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@@Kidlogos1 kid Cudi x Jaden tour gonna be crazy this year
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Heeeeeere
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Brazillll
@liorivera7777
I wonder if Jaden still know karate
@ledah0012
nigga never knew karate
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Jungle Fire First true af
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Jungle Fire First Lol.