In "Boomerang (Extended)," Passenger describes a life stuck in exhausting repetition, where every effort rolls back like a stone or returns like a thrown boomerang. The longing moves from mere survival toward wanting genuine love, trust, and peace, not just fleeting highs that fade by morning. The repeated image of the boomerang captures how hope keeps circling back to disappointment, yet the plea for something real and lasting shows a stubborn refusal to settle for numbness.
Boomerang (Extended) Lyrics by Passenger
Well every day I roll this stone up a hill
Then I watch it roll back down
I throw it out like a boomerang
Spinning in the sky then it comes back round
And I can’t run or hide away
It always seems to track me down
Down
I’m sick and tired of Groundhog Day
I need something new to bring me round
You see I want to live a good life
I don’t wanna just survive
Yeah, I wanna love and be loved
I wanna feel alive
I wanna feel alive
Well every night I dream of something good
Then I wake to find it gone
I fly high like a boomerang
But always come back down before too long
Yeah and I can feel it slide away
With every answer I get wrong
I’m sick and tired of Groundhog Day
I need something true to move along
You see I want to live a good life
I don’t wanna just survive
Yeah, I wanna love and be loved
I wanna feel alive
And I wanna feel the sun upon my skin
I wanna flourish and thrive, oh
I just wanna feel peace within
When I close my eyes, eyes
So give me something I can feel
Something I can trust with all my heart
Give me something that is real
Something to hold on to in the dark
Give me something I can taste
And something that won’t tear my world apart
Give me something that won’t disappear
‘Cause I just want to live a good life
I don’t wanna just survive, oh
Yeah, I wanna love and be loved
I wanna feel alive
And I wanna feel the rain upon my skin
I wanna dance beneath the sky, oh
I just wanna feel peace within
When I close my eyes
When I close my eyes
