Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
They carved the message deep within our broken hearts that failed to mend:
Make out kids never had a chance to be best friends.
He's into math and magazines,
Director's cuts and gray-sell green
Armed with her knife and contradictions,
She sees completely through me.
I'm fond of twin peaks,
Afternoons,
Inexpensive wine,
With cordon bleu..
Armed with a plethora of insecurities, we keep each other amused..
Headed for the madness, we are better by design,
It's all we'll ever have to say goodbye..
Say goodbye.
Flown in, sleep over winter break,
Cocktails and miniature mistakes,
Lights out, we're covered in each others' warm embrace..
And we sing..
Headed for the madness, we are better by design,
It's all we'll ever have to say goodbye,
Say goodbye. [x2]
If we keep swimming, maybe this will never die.
We fail to keep in touch these days,
As I'm liquid cold, she's motor grey,
We're hollowed by circumstance that pushed us both away.
We carved a message deep within our broken hearts that failed to mend:
Make out kids never had a chance to be best friends.
Make out kids never had a chance to be best friends.
He's into math and magazines,
Director's cuts and gray-sell green
Armed with her knife and contradictions,
She sees completely through me.
I'm fond of twin peaks,
Afternoons,
Inexpensive wine,
With cordon bleu..
Armed with a plethora of insecurities, we keep each other amused..
Headed for the madness, we are better by design,
It's all we'll ever have to say goodbye..
Say goodbye.
Flown in, sleep over winter break,
Cocktails and miniature mistakes,
Lights out, we're covered in each others' warm embrace..
And we sing..
Headed for the madness, we are better by design,
It's all we'll ever have to say goodbye,
Say goodbye. [x2]
If we keep swimming, maybe this will never die.
We fail to keep in touch these days,
As I'm liquid cold, she's motor grey,
We're hollowed by circumstance that pushed us both away.
We carved a message deep within our broken hearts that failed to mend:
Make out kids never had a chance to be best friends.
Lyrics submitted by AllStarMe, edited by bmo16, WaterFromDust
Make Out Kids Lyrics as written by Joshua Allen Cain Jesse Mack Johnson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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before i work with the opening verse, i wanna get to the rest of the song and explain at the bottom.
"She's into math and magazines, Director's cuts and gray cell green Armed with an eye for contradictions, She sees completely through me."
the way i see it, this phrase is first describing her, with the math and magazines, and she also likes extended movies and grey cell green the band. the next two lines describe (possibly?) why he likes her so much; she sees all his contradictions and sees completely through the bullsh*t.
"I'm fond of Twin Peaks afternoons, Inexpensive wine with cordon bleu.. Armed with a plethora of insecurities, we keep each other amused.."
here i find it too indubitable that he uses "armed with (adj + noun)" in both the first and second verses; he must have meant something by them. so here he's saying they both are self-conscious and use them as satire against each other, but in a playful way. and the obvious first two lines of this verse mean he likes the marathon shows and eating cheaply.
"Hooray for the madness, we are better by design, Let's hope we'll never have to say goodbye.. Say goodbye."
too obvious here. He loves the instability or what appears to be instability in his relationship, but they balance each other and are "better by design" together than apart; they hope they never lose each other.
"They carved a message deep within our broken hearts that failed to mend: Make out kids never had a chance to be best friends."
now, at the beginning of the song, without the rest of the song, it seems that this can be taken literally as they have no chance of friendship because they are "make out friends" with a little deeper thinking and seeing the rest of the lyrics, as well as the use of this line at both the beginning and end of the song, it almost seems as if he tries to first convey that first message, but then goes on to say no, because of all these situations that we've been through together, we are so much more than just make out friends. the end line just means to me that hes kind of throwing it back in the faces of those who doubted and argued.
but, as others have said, this is all pure speculation without the original writer's full detailed analysis.