The lyrics, to me anyway, speak of a couple reuniting after a long time apart. This is not a happy reunion. He wants her back, he says he has changed, but she sees his disguise; she can see right through him.
The reunion brings back all the bad memories and feelings that she had - all the mistakes that she/him/both of them made.
'We remark on the way that things have changed': to me, that seems like they are trying to make conversation, stalling - eg 'i see you cut your hair/got a new couch,etc'..
They talk/fight about their past ('argue the night') .
They 'remark on the way that things remain' -they remark on how they both haven't really changed; they still see the negatives in each other that broke them up in the first place.
But he still wants her back. He wants this more than her, and she wonders why: after all their history, all these bad memories and mistakes, she can't see how it could work, how it could go back to the way things were ('what once was clothed in white'). Too much has happened, too many mistakes that cannot be undone ('now bears the bruise of a burden'). The 'burden' maybe being the memories that she now has to live with.
This song is deep and wonderful.
The lyrics, to me anyway, speak of a couple reuniting after a long time apart. This is not a happy reunion. He wants her back, he says he has changed, but she sees his disguise; she can see right through him. The reunion brings back all the bad memories and feelings that she had - all the mistakes that she/him/both of them made.
'We remark on the way that things have changed': to me, that seems like they are trying to make conversation, stalling - eg 'i see you cut your hair/got a new couch,etc'..
They talk/fight about their past ('argue the night') . They 'remark on the way that things remain' -they remark on how they both haven't really changed; they still see the negatives in each other that broke them up in the first place. But he still wants her back. He wants this more than her, and she wonders why: after all their history, all these bad memories and mistakes, she can't see how it could work, how it could go back to the way things were ('what once was clothed in white'). Too much has happened, too many mistakes that cannot be undone ('now bears the bruise of a burden'). The 'burden' maybe being the memories that she now has to live with.