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.
Is there a place that we can go to teach the children not to grow?
Where lovers don't remember where they met and heartbreak is easy to forget?
Is there no love to speak of?
I'm looking for a new place to call home
There has to be a closer country where love can live near me
I've got to find it because I'm not seeing clearly
There is someone knocking on my door
No one lives here anymore
Don't I know you?
You've got to believe me
We met yesterday
Don't I know you?
I don't believe this bar is closing sir
Don't I know you? ( I guess I never did)
Is there a place that we can go to teach the children not to grow?
Where lovers don't remember where they met and heartbreak is easy to forget?
There has to be a closer country where love can live near me
I've got to find it because I'm not seeing clearly
There is someone knocking on my door
No one lives here anymore
There is no love
Where lovers don't remember where they met and heartbreak is easy to forget?
Is there no love to speak of?
I'm looking for a new place to call home
There has to be a closer country where love can live near me
I've got to find it because I'm not seeing clearly
There is someone knocking on my door
No one lives here anymore
Don't I know you?
You've got to believe me
We met yesterday
Don't I know you?
I don't believe this bar is closing sir
Don't I know you? ( I guess I never did)
Is there a place that we can go to teach the children not to grow?
Where lovers don't remember where they met and heartbreak is easy to forget?
There has to be a closer country where love can live near me
I've got to find it because I'm not seeing clearly
There is someone knocking on my door
No one lives here anymore
There is no love
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Great version of a great song,
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i can only give write about what this song meant to be -- not what it is definitely about.
last spring, when this album was in heavy rotation in my CD player, i was romantically involved with a girl at school who was originally from another country. she was the personification of "flighty" -- moving from emotion to emotion, and then back again, at the drop of a hat.
one night, she'd spend all hours outside with me, the next, she'd ignore my calls. she was, in every sense, a gypsy -- one inclined to a nomadic, way of life.
i finally got to a point where this song made all kinds of sense to me; i felt as if i would have been better had i stayed an ignorant, care-free child ("is there a place that we can go to teach the children not to grow?") and that it would be much better to just forget the whole experience.
i felt like an integral part of the essence of 'me' had been taken; that, when friends came to my door, it was all a show -- no one really lived here anymore.
this was all almost a year ago. i've washed my hands of it and i'm over it, but i was just listening to this album again tonight, and it's truly amazing the places music can take you. the conventions of time and space need not apply when music is involved,
barabbas i agree and think you are 100% correct, a lot of this CD has to do with heartbreak and I think you hit this one on the head.
"Where lovers don't remember where they met and heartbreak is easy to forget?"
Is a great line, showing he wishes he could just get over it, and emotions could change that simple.
"Don't I know you? You've got to believe me We met yesterday Don't I know you? I don't believe this bar is closing sir Don't I know you? ( I guess I never did)"
Is him living in this fantasy world that I talked about earlier, "Where heartbreak is easy to forget" This is that, it's over and they have forgotten each other.
I think this song is written about some one who has been beat up by life and is looking for a utopia or heaven where he can continue on with life without looking back I also think that the writer (Croom) is singing about the absence of heart and all emotional state is gone (is someone knocking on my door, no one lives here anymore) it seems more about someone with a broken heart trying to move on and reastore his heartbreak and to regain feeling of his emotions HIL for life
the bass in this song is sooooo good
yeah it is. i love this song.
the lyrics are amazing.
the bass in all there songs are awesome, there bass player is AMAZING. this song owns
love the bass and the guitar solo :) my fav song of the albuM!
I love the musical diversity that this band displays. Their lyrics are equally incredible. It hits me on every level.
It's funny how you can't really interpret lyrics until you can relate to them... I just read the lyrics, and they made perfect sense to me.
would you mind giving us your interpretation?