He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
You're my concentration
Everything else is a bore
I've got myself snagged on you
No self-control now
All that I wanna do
Sleep in the shadow of you
For the rest of my life
Now we can chisel
Chisel off built up walls
Of pain deposited from past lovers
Memories they can sleep
And we can live comfortably
For the rest of our lives
Wrong or right
Shipwrecked into you
Situation is foolish
Put up a fight
You're my big distraction
Obvious companion
I'm falling fast (fast)
Like an avalanche
Indentured servant
A slave to a slave
Thank God for my hopeful heart
And for mutual feelings
Look how it's balanced now
Maybe we'll just settle down
For the rest of our lives
Wrong or right
Shipwrecked into you
Situation is foolish
Put up a fight
You're my big distraction
Obvious companion
I'm falling fast (fast)
Like an avalanche
Look how it's balanced now
Maybe we'll just settle down
For the rest of our lives
Lives
Wrong or right
Shipwrecked into you
Situation is foolish
Put up a fight
You're my big distraction
Obvious companion (distraction)
I'm falling fast (fast)
Like an avalanche
You're my big distraction
Obvious companion (distraction)
I'm falling fast (fast)
Like an avalanche
You're my big distraction
Obvious companion (distraction)
I'm falling fast (fast)
Like an avalanche
You're my big distraction
Obvious companion (distraction)
I'm falling fast (fast)
Like an avalanche
You're my big distraction
Obvious companion (distraction)
I'm falling fast (fast)
Like an avalanche
Everything else is a bore
I've got myself snagged on you
No self-control now
All that I wanna do
Sleep in the shadow of you
For the rest of my life
Now we can chisel
Chisel off built up walls
Of pain deposited from past lovers
Memories they can sleep
And we can live comfortably
For the rest of our lives
Wrong or right
Shipwrecked into you
Situation is foolish
Put up a fight
You're my big distraction
Obvious companion
I'm falling fast (fast)
Like an avalanche
Indentured servant
A slave to a slave
Thank God for my hopeful heart
And for mutual feelings
Look how it's balanced now
Maybe we'll just settle down
For the rest of our lives
Wrong or right
Shipwrecked into you
Situation is foolish
Put up a fight
You're my big distraction
Obvious companion
I'm falling fast (fast)
Like an avalanche
Look how it's balanced now
Maybe we'll just settle down
For the rest of our lives
Lives
Wrong or right
Shipwrecked into you
Situation is foolish
Put up a fight
You're my big distraction
Obvious companion (distraction)
I'm falling fast (fast)
Like an avalanche
You're my big distraction
Obvious companion (distraction)
I'm falling fast (fast)
Like an avalanche
You're my big distraction
Obvious companion (distraction)
I'm falling fast (fast)
Like an avalanche
You're my big distraction
Obvious companion (distraction)
I'm falling fast (fast)
Like an avalanche
You're my big distraction
Obvious companion (distraction)
I'm falling fast (fast)
Like an avalanche
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
yet another b side off return of saturn. i think on some peoples cds this was actually an extra track, but i didn't get that on mine because i got my cd at walmart. bastards. but i still got the pretty piano version of 'too late' which is also lovely. but yeah this song's a good one