Breezeblocks

The song's a giant metaphor. "She may contain the urge to run away, but hold her down with soggy cloths and breeze-blocks" It's about the weight our main character (we'll simply call him "him") feels he puts on her. "Cetirizine, your fever's gripped me again. Never kisses — all you ever send are full stops." He's saying that he loves her (as in the fever of love) but is also calling her his medicine in the sense of she always stops the love. He explains this plainly with the "Never kisses" line. "Do you know where the wild things go? They go along to take your honey" This is obviously the fear of someone taking her away. "Break down, now weep. Build up breakfast, now let's eat, my love" I think this is more personal rather than pointing out her reaction, though it could be interpreted the other way. As the song reaches this point, he explains his fears, his actions, and his feelings toward the person herself. And the feelings and thoughts are frightful and discouraging. He's constantly haunted by the thought that someone else may come along and take away this person who doesn't even love him the same way, so he feels as though he's doing nothing but weighing her down and being a burden. In other words, he's the breeze-block. "Muscle to muscle and toe to toe, The fear has gripped me but here I go. My heart sinks as I jump up. Your hand grips hand as my eyes shut" This represents a break up that ends in them staying together. "Muscle to muscle" could describe them laying together or literally fighting. "toe to toe" shows us that there is a fight, even if only verbal. "My heart sinks as I jump up." this is him deciding to end the relationship for her sake (as described by his heart sinking). "Your hand grips hand and my eyes shut." this is her stopping him and him. His eyes shutting represents his willingness to ignore the fighting for the sake of keeping her. "Do you know where the wild things go? They go along to take your honey.Break down, now sleep. Build up breakfast, now let's eat, My love" This reiterates his fear of her leaving, but following the fight in the sense of their sleeping after he closes his eyes. It's meant to give deeper meaning to the fighting. "She bruises, coughs, she splutters pistol shots" This is re-describing the fighting. In the chorus, it's described in a very analytically way in the sense that it simply says that it happens. This is more emotional in the effect it has on him. "she splutters pistol shots" seems like the most appropriate place to start, despite it being at the end. The pistol shots are the harsh words and actions she "splutters" at him. They cause "bruises." I don't know what's up with the coughing though. It could describe simply her actually coughing. "Hold her down with soggy clothes and breeze-blocks" This acts as a reminder to himself that he's a weight on her life. It holds an ever-presence in this song. "She's morphine, queen of my vaccine — My love" So again, he describes her as his medicine, but in a different sense; context is important. Following the fighting, as they calm down and sleep together, he thinks of her as a vaccine to his sadness and the fighting. After another chorus (fight) he reiterates "She may contain the urge to run away But hold her down with soggy clothes and breeze-blocks," describing himself, again, as a weight on her life, as a burden. "Germolene, disinfect the scene, my love." He follows the fighting by describing her as the only thing to fix or "disinfect" it and asking her to do it. Note that this time she doesn't fix it, she's only asked. "But please don't go, I love you so, my lovely" She's leaving. A little more musical stuff to talk about here. As this fight ends, the song is at it's quietest, opening by continuing with only one instrument from the chorus. The instrument is getting quieter and lower in tone until it fades. The scene is at a calm, depressed, low tone feeling as though it's tired, as he begs for her to stay with him. As it ends, and she's leaving, the song breaks out into the fullest, and most eventful the instrumental has been, giving a feeling of rapid, distraught begging. As if he's losing his mind at the thought of her leaving. "Please don't go, please don't go. I love you so, I love you so." The pleading. "Please break my heart." Deep down he wants her to go, to be free of him, to be happy, and he recognizes how much he hates it. "Please don't go. I'll eat you whole. I love you so." "Please don't go. I love you so. I love you so, I love you so." At this point, there are two lyrical moments happening at the same time. They're fighting with each other. The song get's slightly louder as it continues, and neither takes gravity over the other. It continues with the pleading in a loving way, saying simply that he loves her, and needs to be with her, then, the thought that he'll "eat [her] whole" starts taking over, describing his nature to hold her down and his want to keep her no matter what. In the end, "Please don't go. I'll eat you whole. I love you so" takes over, being the only lyric left from the fight of emotion. The idea that he's "eat [her] whole" to stay with her is the winning idea. Then this pleading cuts out abruptly leaving a soothing rhythm. This could mean that it simply continues in that she comes back "hand to hand" again, soothing him (this being in the first person). Or it could mean that she was gone and it was over. The song's about a bad relationship, not necessarily abusive, but simply depressed. It's about specifically the guy in the relationship and how he feels and his battling wants. It's about him hurting the person he loves and wanting her to be done with him, but also loving her and wanting her to stay with him. It's about the end of a relationship.