Tie me up with sheets, and hang me from your tree
I'll stay our here all night, it doesn't even matter
As long as I can see, into your room and feel
Like I'm inside your life, I'll follow you forever

Don't cut me down just yet, I'll make things right again
Don't close your blinds on me, on me...

I will never recover from this
I will never believe in this again
And I can never go back to the way I used to be before this started

The snow won't go away, My nose runs down my face
No one sees me here, It doesn't even matter
And every step I take, I stay in the same place
I can't begin to start again why can't I just be perfect?

I will never recover from this
I will never believe in this again
I can never go back to the way I used to be before this started

I will never recover from this
I will never believe in this again
I can never go back to the way I used to be before this started

You see my ghost and you'll never forget it
My face is as white as the snow that haunts me
Your windows my door and nothing can stop me
Sometimes betrayal can make you happy

Don't cut me down just yet, I'll make things right again
Don't close your blinds on me, on me...

I will never recover from this
I will never believe in this again
I can never go back to the way I used to be before this started

I will never recover from this
I will never believe in this again
I can never go back to the way I used to be before this started


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The Ides of March Lyrics as written by Neil Boshart Joshua Bradford

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    My Interpretation

    To me, this song is a metaphor for being left behind by someone else in a relationship.

    "Tie me up with sheets, and hang me from your tree"T

    he imagery I get when I listen to this song is a girl having an old piece of clothing she's used and now she's forgotten outside once she's hung it to dry. This is written from his perspective; he's the piece of clothing that she's forgotten, he feels like he belongs to her and he just wants to go back into her life to be with her again, even though she left him out to dry and wither by himself.

    "I'll stay out here all night, it doesn't even matter As long as I can see, into your room and feel Like I'm inside your life, I'll follow you forever"

    Throughout the song he constantly says he just wants her to take him back, he just wants to somehow, in any way shape or form, be a part of her life. He just stays outside waiting for her to come out and bring him back in to her life. But she constantly doesn't, she just leaves him outside.

    "I will never recover from this I will never believe in this again I can never go back to the way I used to be before this started"

    While he's outside waiting, his feelings start to change. He's getting tired of being left vulnerable ( "The snow won't go away" he's outside just being exposed to everything without her protection), he realized that he's been torn and hurt and he couldn't be the same even if she finally did come out and take him in. So he feels like he's damaged and couldn't be the same way he was before she set him out to dry and wither (or, according to the metaphor, she broke up with him and moved on to other things)

    synergysin22on March 31, 2010   Link

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