the last verse should be:
I've waited and I wait some more
won't see me knockin on another door
but all of this is crazy and amazing
it's only one half of us that I'm saving
so I'm praying, just to let it go
watch from a distance, just to see you grow
In the end he just wants to let go of her, because he knows she's already moved on with her life. In the beginning lines I think he says 700 places, 700 faces, one" as in, out of all the faces she was one that stood out... a nice Petty reference though probably unintentional. He loses the girl to another guy because he can't be around, he even references her father's advice for her, "Father, got the best plan, saving his daughter, for the best man," which would probably not be a struggling musician. A beautiful misbegotten love song.
the last verse should be: I've waited and I wait some more won't see me knockin on another door but all of this is crazy and amazing it's only one half of us that I'm saving so I'm praying, just to let it go watch from a distance, just to see you grow
In the end he just wants to let go of her, because he knows she's already moved on with her life. In the beginning lines I think he says 700 places, 700 faces, one" as in, out of all the faces she was one that stood out... a nice Petty reference though probably unintentional. He loses the girl to another guy because he can't be around, he even references her father's advice for her, "Father, got the best plan, saving his daughter, for the best man," which would probably not be a struggling musician. A beautiful misbegotten love song.