So what's your purpose for me
With your intentions in the air
So what if I wanted to ask you
If I could meet you there

Go inside
I'm coming through for you
I could not be more gone

We watched each other escape
From the commotion that we knew
The way our languages fade
In through an empty living room

Go inside
I'm coming through
Into our world that you surround
Show me now
I'm here with you
For you I could not be more gone


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Living Rooms Lyrics as written by Nathaniel Joseph Cox Justin Keith Holman

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    what i think the writer means is that he needs whoever it is hes in a relationship with to show him that they actually do love each other because it seems like there is so much distance between them ("show me now im here with you, for you i could not be more gone)

    Phantom13on June 28, 2005   Link
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    Oddly enough this song reminds me of a relationship Im in now....she has a boyfriend but likes me as well....I feel so "gone" away from her even when I am around her... Amazing song though

    Opethsbiddingon December 22, 2005   Link
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    The writer is trying to convey his confusion, in that the girl he's in love with isn't showing him that she loves him. And now he wants to know, what are your intentions?

    optimistic_oneon July 29, 2006   Link
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    For me, he's given himself to her, but she hasn't given it back to him yet, and he's wondering if the space between them is going to continue like an empty "living room"

    tino91on July 17, 2007   Link
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    To me, this song talks about a failed relationship, but in different times of said relationship:

    "So what's your purpose for me With your intentions in the air So what if I wanted to ask you If I could meet you there "

    the singer is confused about the intentions of the other person, looks like "would you like it if ask you out?"

    and

    "We watched each other escape From the commotion that we knew The way our languages fade In through an empty living room "

    after the "commotion that we knew" that reads like the actual relationship, the singer and the other person see their languages fade so much like they can't hear each other even in an empty living room.

    This is a metaphore to total lack of communications: languages fading and impossibility to hear and understand each other even in a space in which is really easy to hear anything, like an empty living room.

    The main chorus and the ending

    "Go inside I'm coming through Into our world that you surround Show me now I'm here with you For you I could not be more gone"

    are all about the singer giving his availability to salvage the relationship, asks the other to come "into our world that you surround", like everything is all in the other person's hand.

    But sadly, that other person, could not be more gone.

    Fantastic song by Revis, simple and powerful

    ertyon July 02, 2017   Link

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