Look around you, love,

We ain’t dead in the water,

But this tide going out feels like your luck is drifting away

Through your window, 

There’s a streetlight glowin’,

You hope your rearview will show you that streetlight just blinking away

Find you staring, stuck inside your head

Leaping from great heights,

So high that you might never come down,

Feel the wind all around you keeping your head in the clouds,

These neon lights across the hillsides,

They’re glowing hot pink and yellow,

I can see their color in your eyes

Find you staring, stuck inside your head

Leaping from great heights,

So high that you might never come down,

Feel the wind all around you keeping your head in the clouds,

This is 'Hillsides,' the last song on 'Wander,' and for me, it's about that intense feeling of knowing you could be so much more. It starts with that moment where you might feel 'dead in the water,' watching your 'luck drifting away' – that common feeling of being stuck, of just hoping things will change. You look out your window at the 'streetlight glowing,' wishing that dull, everyday view would change into something new.

Then comes the chorus: "Find you staring, stuck inside your head / Leaping from great heights, / So high that you might never come down, / Feel the wind all around you keeping your head in the clouds." This is the pure exhilaration of the daydream. It’s the vision, the rush of seeing everything you could be, all those vibrant possibilities playing out in your mind. It’s intoxicating, that feeling of limitless potential, soaring high in your thoughts.

But the real core of the song, and that final shift, comes with those 'neon lights across the hillsides, They’re glowing hot pink and yellow,' where you 'can see their color in your eyes.' This is the moment when that vivid daydream starts to pull you toward real-world action. It's the point where you realize that the daydream itself is beautiful, but it's worthless if you don't act on it. It's a vivid picture in your mind, but it stays just a picture unless you actually start moving toward that glow of the lights in the distance.