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.
There's room between your heart
And the chair where I've been sleeping
The place that we called home
Will someday watch you leaving
There's room between today
And the last time that I saw you
The pictures in my brain
Will fade until I lose you
If you would come back home
We could start all over
If you would come back home
I swear it would be better
There's room left in the house
There's food still in the pantry
I could fix you lunch
Or take you out for coffee
If you would come back home
We could start all over
If you would come back home
I swear it would be better
Call the surgeon (If you would come back home)
Mend the pieces (If you would come back home)
Call the surgeon (If you would come back home)
Mend the pieces (If you would come back home)
Call the surgeon (If you would come back home)
Mend the pieces (If you would come back home)
Call the surgeon (If you would come back home)
Mend the pieces (If you would come back home)
And the chair where I've been sleeping
The place that we called home
Will someday watch you leaving
There's room between today
And the last time that I saw you
The pictures in my brain
Will fade until I lose you
If you would come back home
We could start all over
If you would come back home
I swear it would be better
There's room left in the house
There's food still in the pantry
I could fix you lunch
Or take you out for coffee
If you would come back home
We could start all over
If you would come back home
I swear it would be better
Call the surgeon (If you would come back home)
Mend the pieces (If you would come back home)
Call the surgeon (If you would come back home)
Mend the pieces (If you would come back home)
Call the surgeon (If you would come back home)
Mend the pieces (If you would come back home)
Call the surgeon (If you would come back home)
Mend the pieces (If you would come back home)
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amazing... heartbreaking and with a great lyrical simplicity. theres this really tragic desperation, where the singer begs to make the significant other stay<br /> <br /> "There's room left in the house<br /> There's food still in the pantry<br /> I could fix you lunch<br /> Or take you out for coffee"<br /> <br /> im sure we've all had that last ditch attempt to get that person to stay only a little bit longer
The ending refrain of this song, "call the surgeon / mend the pieces," just kills me. Pure emotion.
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It's about two individual's sharing a life together and one of them leaving, and the other waiting up in sense for the other one because he can't bare the thought of sleeping in "their bed" without her. Then it goes on to say that he hasn't seen her in awhile, and that as much as he wants to remember everything he loves about this girl. He knows that with time, he'll forget the little things about her. Like her exact scent, or the way her voice sounded or the echo in her laugh. He hates the thought of this, and wishes she would come back 'home' and knowing that if she doses 'everything will become better' this time.
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This entire song is so moving- but the one line that sticks out to me is the "and the chair where I've been sleeping" line. This break up was due to cheating on the Male's part. I find it painfully ironic that he cannot bring himself to sleep in the bed that he cheated on his wife in.
(Track 4 from the album The Sparrow and the Crow —.)
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First please excuse my english you all out there, but i just wanted to write that with "the chair where i am sleeping" he is building up the picture of a hospital, someone waiting for hours on the chair next to the bed of the (dying?) love. And in the end with the call for the surgeon he is back in the hospital again. I like that a lot. Greetings from germany
the part in the song
There's room between today And the last time that I saw you The pictures in my brain Will fade until I lose you
it's so heart breaking. i think this song is about his dying wife. and when he sings "the pictures in my brain will fade until i lose you" it makes me so sad. because you don't wanna forget. you don't want to forget how the person you love smells, how she laughs, the sound of her voice, her touch, the times you spent together, the memories that bind you together. but as time comes you start to forget => "there's room between today and the last time that i saw you". and you try to remember, but it will fade away with every day.
that's the part of the song that touches me the most. sry for my bad english, i'm german..
i relate this to something i'm experiencing as we speak. my girlfriend is in illinois, and i'm in asia and i'm trying to get back to her, but the u.s embassy isn't letting me get my student visa so i can finish my studies in the u.s. this is in her perspective. and sadly this doesn't make me feel better, just realize the situation more. and it makes me sad because i want to get back to her, and she's wanting me to come back home (her heart) so we can start over again. it could mean something different, but this is how i relate it to me.