From the album Cicada
This is about wanting someone while knowing you are not ready to be wanted back. The speaker keeps offering a future version of themselves instead of showing up now. Every promise here is conditional on waking up tomorrow as someone else.
You're everything I'm thinking of / From time to time, and dust to dust
That phrase 'dust to dust' twists a funeral rite into a confession about inconsistency. They are admitting the feeling is not constant, it comes and goes like static between stations.
I'm lost beneath your cloud / Can I keep my two feet on the ground?
The question is not rhetorical. They genuinely do not know if they can stay grounded around this person. The image flips romantic floating into something closer to dissociation.
Wake me, I'll love you tomorrow / You leave me breathless and hollow
This might be the most honest two lines in the song. Love is pushed to tomorrow because today they are too emptied out to give anything real. The promise is always deferred.
Careful, our time's not what it seems / So shake this one off and dance with me
The warning and the invitation contradict each other on purpose. They know the clock is running but they are still asking for more borrowed time instead of dealing with what is actually happening.
I could be someone you should get to know
Repeating this four times does not make it more convincing. It makes it sound like they are trying to talk themselves into believing it. The insistence reveals the doubt underneath.
The cicada in the title only lives above ground for a few weeks after years underground. Good Kid never says that explicitly, but the whole song is about emerging into something brief and urgent while still acting like you have all the time in the world. By the end, you are not sure if they ever wake up or just keep deferring until the person is gone.