Past Lives Lyrics by Jay Som
(Feat. Hayley Williams)
Broken sparrow
An open echo
Looking sideways
Casting shadows
Entire lifetimes
Spent on the sidelines
Time you borrowed
It’s falling apart
Shut down and restart
Melt off, defrost
I’m spiraling up
Walking side by side
With your past lives
Into a standstill
Still
Still blurring lines
Shifting gears
Caught in halftime
It’s falling apart
Shut down and restart
Melt off, defrost
I’m spiraling up
I’m spiraling up
I’m stuck in the mud
I’m spiraling up
I’m stuck in the mud
I’m spiraling up
I’m spiraling up, up
It’s falling apart
Shut down and restart
Melt off, defrost
I’m spiraling up
It’s falling apart
Shut down and restart
Melt off, defrost
I’m spiraling up
Spiraling
The Meaning of “Past Lives” by Jay Som featuring Hayley Williams
Jay Som just dropped “Past Lives,” and honestly, it feels like walking through a dream you can’t quite shake. There’s this hazy, almost fragile beauty to it—like catching a glimpse of something beautiful just as it starts to fade.
Broken sparrow / An open echo / Looking sideways
Those opening lines hit hard, don’t they? It’s like she’s singing about all the little broken pieces we carry, the echoes of who we used to be. You can almost feel the weight of those “entire lifetimes spent on the sidelines”—all that time just… waiting.
And then there’s that refrain: “I’m stuck in the mud / I’m spiraling up.” It’s such a raw, honest contradiction—that feeling of being trapped while somehow still rising. Maybe that’s what growth really feels like: messy, confusing, and beautiful all at once.