Come Walk With Me
M.I.A. - www.musicasparabaixar.org Lyrics
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There's a thousand ways to track you down
Whatever you said and done
There's a thousand ways to make it count
There is nothing that can touch me now
You can't even break me down
Every time you think of some
It's all ready been did and done
Can I be your best friend?
Can I make it to the end?
Can you give me some of what you went and gave them?
Come on walk with me
You ain't gotta shake it just be with me
You ain't gotta throw your hands in the air
'Cause tonight we ain't acting like we don't care
It's cool (it's cool) it takes two, so I'm gonna still fux with you
It's cool (it's cool) it takes two, so I'm gonna still fux with you
There's a thousand ways to meet you now
There's a thousand ways to track you down
Whatever you said and done
There's a thousand ways to make it count
There is nothing that can touch me now
You can't even break me down
Every time you think of some
It's all ready been did and done
Can I be your best friend?
Can I make it to the end?
Can you give me some of what you went and gave them?
Come walk with me
You ain't gotta shake it just be with me
You ain't gotta throw your hands in the air
'Cause tonight we ain't acting like we don't care
Tryna feel like what that feeling's like
When someone makes you feel alright
We can take the same path tonight
For the ride I got plenty of time
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger
That's how my roads getting longer and longer
My tracks are less traveled here to Uganda
Can we touch base just to discuss agenda
Can I be your best friend?
Can I make it to the end?
Can you give me some of what you went and gave them?
Come walk with me
You ain't gotta shake it just be with me
You ain't gotta throw your hands in the air
'Cause tonight we ain't acting like we don't care
It's cool it takes two, so I'm gonna still fux with you
It's cool it takes two, so I'm gonna still fux with you
Power, power, power, power
Power, power, power, power
Power, power
M.I.A. coming back with power power!
The song "Come Walk With Me" by M.I.A. is a combination of an invitation, a statement, and a question. The track reflects a person's urge for a companion and the feeling of contentment that comes with it. The song begins by conveying the message that although there are many ways to meet people nowadays, it can be hard to build a genuine relationship. There's always an attempt to connect with someone that has already been tried and executed.
The lyrics emphasize the singer's eagerness to walk beside the listener and become best friends. M.I.A. is asking if she can be the individual's closest friend and if the person can provide her with the same love and attention they do to their other friends. She sings, "Can you give me some of what you went and gave them?" The rapper doesn't want to be just another acquaintance; she wants to be an essential component of the listener's life.
Line by Line Meaning
There's a thousand ways to meet you now
There are numerous ways to connect with you in today's world
There's a thousand ways to track you down
There are innumerable methods to find and locate you
Whatever you said and done
Regardless of what you have said or done
There's a thousand ways to make it count
There are countless ways to make things work
There is nothing that can touch me now
I am invincible and untouchable
You can't even break me down
You cannot succeed in breaking me down emotionally or physically
Every time you think of some
Every time you come up with an idea
It's all ready been did and done
It has already been done and cannot be undone
Can I be your best friend?
Can I be your closest and most trusted friend?
Can I make it to the end?
Will you allow me to accompany you until the end?
Can you give me some of what you went and gave them?
Will you give me the same love and attention you gave to others?
Come walk with me
Join me and let's go for a walk together
You ain't gotta shake it just be with me
You don't have to flaunt or show off, just be with me
You ain't gotta throw your hands in the air
You don't have to throw your hands up in the air in excitement
'Cause tonight we ain't acting like we don't care
Because tonight, we are not pretending to not care or be apathetic
It's cool (it's cool) it takes two, so I'm gonna still fux with you
It's okay because it takes two to maintain a relationship, so I will still be with you
Tryna feel like what that feeling's like
Trying to experience the feeling or sensation
When someone makes you feel alright
When someone makes you feel good and content
We can take the same path tonight
We can journey down the same route tonight
For the ride I got plenty of time
I have ample amount of time for this ride
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger
Adversity builds resilience and strength
That's how my roads getting longer and longer
That's how my journey is becoming lengthier and harder with time
My tracks are less traveled here to Uganda
My path is less common in Uganda
Can we touch base just to discuss agenda
Can we communicate to discuss our objectives?
Power, power, power, power
Strength, power, influence, and might
M.I.A. coming back with power power!
M.I.A. is returning with vigor and force
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: MATHANGI ARULPRAGASAM, DAVID JAMES ANDREW TAYLOR
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
@arjhaylagocacho2132
2024 everyone?
@KIT_TV22
SALUTE 💪🏿💜
@Kidlogos1
Still vibey 🥃
@KIT_TV22
@@Kidlogos1 kid Cudi x Jaden tour gonna be crazy this year
@King_of_nothing3HW
Heeeeeere
@andersonsilva3476
Brazillll
@liorivera7777
I wonder if Jaden still know karate
@ledah0012
nigga never knew karate
@marlenezzz
Jungle Fire First true af
@kiabethbautista969
Jungle Fire First Lol.