Powder in your hair
Staples in your jeans
Fireworks at the water
You were holding a styro-foam cup
Held between your teeth
Telling me how you're going to outlive your body

What you said I wrote it down,
It won't say,
It won't speak the same
Maybe I know better than
To read more
Than what's written

After everything
After everything
Left in the sun, shivering.
After everything.

Gathering your storm
I talk to fill the space
You know where so and so was
When they were our age
And every night you seem
To talk me out of everything

Careful what you say next,
Don't waste a sin-gle drop
What you said I wrote it down,
Won't say, won't speak the same

After everything,
After everything.
Left in the sun, shivering.
After everything.

What you said I wrote it down,
It won't say,
It won't speak the same
Maybe I know better than
To read more
Than what's there

After everything,
After everything.
Left in the sun, shivering.
After everything.


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    To me, there seems to be two different ways to interpret the song. The first being that the singer is writing about a close friend/relative who is going to die soon (which makes sense with the context of the rest of the album, esp. "Three Months"). They're saying that their body is going to die before their spirit, which indicates some sort of a disease. So the singer writes down all the things this person says so that they don't forget, but the words can't be spoken or else they lose all their meaning. Or, as is indicated by the last line, the singer will attach more meaning to the words than was intended. An alternative would be that their close friend/relative is simply leaving or breaking up with them. Doesn't seem to fit as well with everything else, but it's always an angle.

    mytreacherousfriendson April 27, 2013   Link

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