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.
I don't want to hear you whisper
I don't want to orbit your world of two
There's only room for you
In your world of two
I don't like to hang around you
I don't want to live in your world of two
There's only room for you
In your world of two
It's not that I don't like you
But it's not that I don't love you
It's not that I don't think you are
Two of the most
Perfectly
Beautiful
People in your world
In your world of two
There's only room for you
In your world of two
There's only room for you
In your world of two
In your world of two
There's only room
There's only room
There's only room
For you
I don't want to orbit your world of two
There's only room for you
In your world of two
I don't like to hang around you
I don't want to live in your world of two
There's only room for you
In your world of two
It's not that I don't like you
But it's not that I don't love you
It's not that I don't think you are
Two of the most
Perfectly
Beautiful
People in your world
In your world of two
There's only room for you
In your world of two
There's only room for you
In your world of two
In your world of two
There's only room
There's only room
There's only room
For you
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Great version of a great song,
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at first i thought it was about being a third wheel, he doesn't like to hang out with them because he's left out and the other two will always put the other first. but i like JustJulie's idea too, that its a two-faced girl.
@orange_rain \r\nI think you\'re dead on about it being a song about being left out because the other two always put each other first. I relate to it as a goodbye song to one of two people who have gotten so absorbed in each other that you no longer have a place with either. While I\'d be willing to bet that the "two" in the song is probably a friend of his who met a girl, the great thing about the song, and what makes it relatable is that it could just as well be about his girlfriend and her facebook account, or about siamese twins as I once heard someone say. In the end, for me, it\'s about giving up, putting on a fake smile, and walking away without being hostile, despite how painful it might be to know that you don\'t belong where you once did. There are a lot of songs about giving up on something, typically about feeling defeated, but the tone of this song is different than most that admitting defeat, kind of woefully jolly. It\'s uniquely about not belonging - not gaining or losing, just not belonging.