Very few sounds to those like the surf lapping on the shore, Oceans, meditative breath its natural rhythm, It's only natural that we would seek to experience the waters energy to sir, the harmonised, with the waves of the danger of being put under is ever present right away. Is to put your trust in the very thing that has the potential to devastate you can like love. That way, it is and you'd motifs exploration of water, the penultimate track. Circles finds MAC miller surfing in perfect harmony with a world of his own, making putting his faith in love. The same way, a surfer trust the water to return him safely to shore,

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with the minimal intimate production approach of circles, the track centres around a simple for core progression play guitar miscellaneous background, sound filter in and now I'm mac warms up his voice. The sense of the term it's coming together in real time, almost like a jam session that turned to gold yeah, It the loosened prohibitory feel continues throughout the track. Based doesn't it until nearly a minute in and drums until a minute and a half the slow build. The track is unhurried and taking its time, just like mac, has been learning to do throughout goals, it's are you going so

what is our brain wealth we fine no it's your eyes and your ears and your mouth, then your nose, then your shoulders, your knees and your toes before beginning the first verse surf begins with a series of Hayes, a staple mac Miller added in the world a posthumous releases, these kinds of familiar organic impulses take on extra importance. The kind of raw human moments at reunited, with the spirit of those who have passed, thus even from beyond man, set aside is very much with us as well. In this five min odyssey through love and growth, once comfort ability is establish mac begin serve with an essential question said: where are you going? Can I come to this? the first time on circles that mac asked to follow a nameless figure recall that on woods, mac said

when you're leaving, where you go, can I come there to be a hint of desperation and max asking on woods, but by the of surf. There is far more resolve present policy, to still be battling, a fear of being alone will see that sir. Sentimentally stronger mac, more inclined to stay optimist, despite his internal worries, thus the following lines. The whole world is open, a playground for me and you. The image here displays an increase. We sweet childlike curiosity and approached to love after still our youth with affirmations and encourage them that anything is possible that the world and feature is theirs for the taking mac uses that subtext too. The score. His vision of the limitless of love and intimacy, specifically, the play ground as a symbol of adventure, wonder and continued discovery. The way playground see

larger than life. When we're kids is the same way, mac sees the world with his lover. He then continues and we could be fine shit who the hell knows. The openness of the playground presents a bit of uncertainty for mac attempts to assure his partner by continuing his optimistic view of their future together This line, combined with mac asking his leaving lover if it can come with her, seems to imply that the relationship could be in peril, that his partner is upset or the worried about the sustainability of their future together, despite the subtext max and displays a lack of brooding concern, as he has evidently moving with the flow of life. how the surf endlessly lapse against the shore. Makin declares its your eyes in your ears in your mouth, knows head in your shoulders. Your knees and your toes staying with a child like playground mood makko lose too nursery rhyme, head shoulders needs and toes. We hear stories about relationships,

knocking and soothing someone's inner child and hear back is bringing that child to the fore. Importantly, mac is an objective find his partner here, as he avoids describing body parts in a way that is over sexual. Rather, it seems he's genuine enamored by their beauty to reflect this map out. The number of vulgar harmonies to these lines, elevating them about the others. Just like max lever stands out in a crowd. So do these lines as mac uses musical accents to reflect how this person makes them feel in your mouth. Then your nose, then your shoulders, your knees and your toes will have this moment come true. They know nature's way and for me you know she just like I got to know. Klaus don't need to be lower before it's all over. I promise we'll do it. How I come in the first two bass interests

continuing the song slow, build mac sings. I dream of this moment. Will it come true, the whole world? They know it? They just waiting for me and you mac is playing with big ideas here. The world he opened up into a playground for his partner is now staring back at him with expectant eyes. There's almost a sense that love is royal and surf universe and makin. This unnamed person are the high rulers yet mac wondering whether his visions will come true continues. The sub textual layer of conflict beneath his grand vision of love in the future, that is to say, does this person feel the same way they enjoy. in their future with the same sense of grandeur and bliss. Back then continues, and she just like I got her head in the clouds, The sense of one miss here as mac dissolves, any differences between him and the she placing the couple in the clouds merely deify them their partners in the truest sense of the word. A mac makes it clear. They share the same zeal and sense of wonder and life

he flips the negative connotations surrounding having your head in the clouds making. It sound like a sweet refuge just like the playground making daydreaming sound, tangible and permanent, of course, citing clouds and love song calls to mind dunno from swimming or mac used a central image of being in the clouds as a destination that offered refuge from the pressures on the ground. Nasby document Our episode, undone o the cloud motif, is unavoidably associated with max pass girlfriend area on a grundy, possibly the intended subject of the song. In any case, mac continues by vowing that this mutual space in the clouds is sustainable. Singing dont need to be lower before it's all over. I promise will figure it out his closest makin. His love can come to an eternity together. The still just people, a mac, understand

so they will still have to work. In spite of our incredible that relationships out like referred many times, wrote swimming in circles, the sky in the sea. The high and low tides of life are presented simultaneously. Much like the tides rise and fall as natural. So too is love. The central image of surf then comes from the ease with which mac tackles romance here. His release tone, which is matched by the laid back production mimics. The late in nature of a literal surf said point that we also understand max dedication to another is implicitly dedication to the self to across circles. We've referred mac clearing out the clutter in his head heard in finding his footing as a creative and as a man, and, of course, this means he's more prepared to be a partner than ever before. You have two short for yourselves. You can truly show out for their relationships in your life.

I come in, do what I need to do so much of this world is above us by the name. Might tell you that I went crazy, trying to read your mac continuous averse singing. I ain't coming down. Why would I need to Here he speaks to our desires, to suspend time when we feel the natural high of appear and worked on love. Mac is choosing to keep himself ball in the sky to keep his palms open. whatever splendours may landed them and to be comfortable with those very splendours drifting off as their time comes recalls. The finale of the previous line before it's all over speaking to max acceptance of the passage of time is nothing short of a sage here and just when we think he can't get any higher mac sings so much of this world as above us, he blows. The world is constructing, serve out even further developing the universe, forest love in real time.

implying that as high as they are now this potential to go even further to beam and happier also, this idea that things can be above us in terms of information being out of reach, implies or something ethereal and potentially wonderful shrouding, all of surf, notably max, First to it as this world, not the world working. Stinks between the actual world and the self contained world, makin visions he and his love existent. When, together, when we, I noticed a slight distinction in wording, the penultimate lighted, the verse becomes a little inside joke between us and mac. He sings. They might tell you that I went crazy obviously, MAC miller doesn't have the power to reshape time and space, as he sings about here on, surf amazed, it might look at any over unabashed expression of love and call it crazy. We think of Tom cruise jumping on opus couch and his infamous declaration of love for katy homes and the media subsequent spending whose went crazy. But if we allow ourselves to be music fans lovers and feeling people, we realise, there's no,

outlandish or outrageous about this world back is created on surf on circles or even across his dick eight plus music career he's doing what artist do best, which is to accurately transformed felt emotion into, are creating worlds that attempt to resemble the way certain experiences are p. we'll make us feel the verse than ends with max centering us on his intentions, with his partner singing. I'm just trying to read you maybe mac years wondering if his partner also thinks he's crazy, trying to read her reaction to his grand vision of the world. They create there. There is also the chance mac is saying. I'm just trying to reach you. Perhaps continuing the subtext ever relationship at odds mac is striving higher and higher on the track, trying to reaches lever in the clouds. After this second verse, we get the first adoration of this Of course, what dissect that, along with the rest of surf right after the break episode is brought to you by nissan thrill looks different for everyone for some its

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dissect before the break. We heard mac laying out as majestic vision of a limitless future with his lover, something that contain into serfs, who know Lee dry in days day go to get water and much less grow people a lot, but hey so do until now it's one of those last sir search begins. I know we try and the days they go by there's a during here between mac speaking about himself in his partner in speaking about the universal we another means of an. Hiding the listener closer into this world here so delicately spinning. The simplicity of the line keeps with the youthful tone of the track, yet in ankara slate so much of our experience of life for all our here trying doing what we can with what we have

sometimes were trying our best, sometimes not, regardless of our condition. Time marches on the days go by both time and the universes indifference have been motifs, develop throughout circles, as mac continues to rise, with a reality that we will not live forever and that we are, the tiniest disintegrating specks lost in the vastness of the universe Well, that larger reality has the potential to be devastating, but also great freedom in it, as were free to construct our own reality to some degree, it calls to mind something max said at the time: a swimming release about the freedom of found and not caring about how he was perceived by others quote yet, have your own reality, and that has to be the driving force of your life and club on sir. If we actually find him creating his reality, this world he's building with us over and in the face of the harshest realities of life in the universe max days optimistic singing until we get old, there's water in the flowers, let's grow mac, your positions, life as an ever evolving journey growth, isn't something

only happen stronger transition from youth to adulthood; rather, the stains, our entire life in terms of the relationship mac describes on the track mac envision, nurturing it into old age. The way he might nurture a plant, but is ongoing, effort is required to keep it alive and a bit of clever wordplay. He takes the commonplace phrase. Let's go and changes that ever so suddenly to let's grow mechanism. There are going and growing into the future and doing better there's also a subtle invocation of a circle. In these lines, we are faced with the server of life and the idea of getting old, the lifecycle of flowers and the reminder that, with its non linear and feeds into itself from growing by yourself to growing with another person the way the surf feeds into the shore. Finally, the implication of water, as a life source of course evokes the central motif of swimming in circles. Much of swimming typically showcases the way water can take a life be drowning or the physical

of swimming itself being required to navigate rough waters. The huron serve water is a life. Giver feels like a reward for the swimming waiting and growing mac did across the previous album. Very quiet almost placid development of the water motif, but it speaks volumes to what sir needs to swimming an circles. This fusion of growth, the world and love, be a love of self or another. calls to mind something mac proclaimed during an instagram live stream. He did from his garden. The natural energy of the planet is a feminine energy. It's nurturing it's. It gives birth to life in these beautiful plants you see around me. I mean that's, that's a feminine energy, so you gotta you gotta love! You gotta appreciate a female. You gotta, you gotta, do what you gotta do to to to to keep these plants growing. You know my continue serves core

singing people. They lie, but hey so do y mac here, humanizes himself, including himself in the universal observation about the dishonesty of humans recalls the press mac did leading up to swimming and how he at much of his time reminding fans he's merely a person, immensely loved and talented, but a person? Nonetheless, the next line, until it gets old, contains a slight but important change from the first time. We heard it just moments ago, when maxing, until we get old, The shift from we too, it implies that we are now talking about max shortcomings as a person, we realise that the idea of law, it is just a stand in for the way were all fallible and flawed. This is a typical mac miller, move making himself appear as one of us because he is weekends once again with theirs water in the flowers. Let's grow the repetition. Here, sir, This is the central and most powerful image of the song would take you. the sky high imagery of the first first, the notion of the flowers can be almost cartoonish we can.

Imagine these flowers soaring up into the clouds to meet mac worries he's we realize that's. The whole point of this track were being guided on a journey. I forgot listen acceptance of ourselves and our relationships to meet each other. where we are with the promise of watering our flowers, so we can become who we need each other to be one back reforms, the songs, coastguard singing, let it go, let it be or all we need today. The notice surrender here again recalling the song title now. We have no actual control over the surf itself. Finding peace in that discovery

it's a worldview in line with the dallas principles of acceptance, detachment from desire, and in the moment presence we discuss throttle now some circles and were all we need today also continues to a vote. Both the universal and the specific lover described and surf showcasing max ability to include everyone, even in this most intimate expression, and it's here that we realise that the water in those flowers is each other that we are each other life source that we are all. We need to grow to reach the extravagant heights mac vividly straight through the sun, the beautiful declaration of faith and humanity in the power of community trust. In that, despite how we all lie. Despite our myriad of flaws, we are better together than we are divided and as if to exemplify his own proclamation. Mac continues by repeating the first line of the post course. Let it go, but then hums the rest. These homes are crucial in the They are care, free and pleasing to the ear suggesting that mac is finding himself at peace harmonizing with the world. His creator,

some long long, windows, closed alma. Mater knows me. Someone else will continue the human admissions conveyed in the chorus mac begins the second versing. Sometimes I get lonely not when I'm alone, these The clarification are essential and that they remind us of max on afflictions is suffering We need serfs themes just as much as the listener continues by describing a trigger for his loneliness,

what is more when I'm standing in crowds that I'm feeling the most on my own This kind of loneliness amongst crowds as a common pain point four celebrities, but it also to a more general scenario experienced by those with social anxiety being around other people doesn't mean you feel connected with them, and sometimes this can actually das orbit loneliness, because those strangers remind you have all the connections you wish you had, but recalls max opening minds on swimming. When he saying I got neighbours who more like strangers, we could be friends as mac recognizes the potential for connection but struggles to take and towards that aim, but with the next lines of surf mac remains hopeful singing. I know that somebody knows me I somewhere, there's home, I'm starting to see that all I have to do is get up and go.

The same way. Mac was looking for a way out of his head on swimming his opening track, where the way he was trying to reach the other side of the closed door on good news, mac, you're, communicate and understand in that connection and comfort only exist if one acts, if he just gets up and enters the playground while interacting with the world, it can be scary and vulnerable and also offers unrivaled rewards like love and companionship. This moment of mac discovering and acknowledging agency as powerful showcasing the growth experience across swimming in circles like those water flowers, on serfs chorus, we ve witnessed mac blooming into something wholly elegant and beautiful within them like repetition, recite the songs bridge singing going going going before I'm gone. The movement here imply

mac has acted on the realisation of the end to he's gotten up open that closed door and went outside I've heard moments of action similar to this on swimming encircles. This moment on surf the penultimate track of the twenty five song. Double album feel special. His outwardly joyous almost celebrate tory painting the experience of getting out of your own head as something spectacular, a beautiful parting message. As we approach the closing chapter of the project, we also find mac you're thinking of circles once again before I'm gone, speaks directly to the chorus, getting old and getting right with yourself before your mortal time is up. This is further understood when we realise that mac is likely playing off the common phrase, going going gone used by baseball announcers as a batter hits a home run and when a player hits home run they round the bases from home plate back to home plate. I complete circle around

the diamond. This is fitting symbolism for the allusions to mortality in this line of woking that iconic final line of so it goes just like a circle. I go back where I'm from mac understands that we're all going until we're gone, but within this baseball framework, we're simply going back home, This baseball reference also continues the theme of adolescence in the playground symbolism present throughout sir. In fact, it would seem that baseball and playgrounds had been intertwined max mind, since he was a kid when I took a local pittsburgh news channel on a tour of blue side park around the release of that album. They walk right from the baseball field, the playground something you did regularly as a child. I play baseball there, Ever every game you I run ride to the slide, ironically, in line with a going going gone lyric. This new segment ended with one final. Joking regret. The star of flu slide park has only one regret,

I never who one home run here. My whole life, not until his elbow one out of the park, the in no way try the days they go to get on the news, water and snacks. People riding the high of the bridge retreated to one final chorus now there's water in the flower. Slits grow feels even more like a moral imperative, notably mac is not actively watering. The flowers in this image is noting they ve already been tended to. Thus surfers about understanding the tools already present in love, the self and our connection with others. This is how we grow with what we have together. There is pain, loss

confusion, but there is still so much to experience and enjoy in this life, is at this point we might recall of the beginning of the album and max opening words. This is what it looked like right before you for the album began in a state of peril. We close out with this incredible feeling of peace being one with the world around us, a world of her own making and similar max humming. Earlier we find him fiddling around on the base guitar and extended musical outgrow, totally free and in harmony with his invite, I do incredibly, fitting that serve answered back playing this wandering bay solo because aside,

represents that, let it go, let it be mentality in its music, as well as its lyrics. It's not like mac, some virtuosity based player, just like he isn't some experts singer, but that's kind of the point is working with what he has with the water, our readiness flowers, accepting that as enough and cultivating something pure and beautiful and true, beat the playground, baseball or based guitar maggie's as free as a child. He surfing. He's totally given himself over to the waves harmonious with the water floating onto shore, the goal of sir is to make it ashore much like the goal of coming in circles is to make it period once and for always. Mac is surviving imperfect time with this world he's come to love.

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