i think it's a conversation between 2 people, a man and a woman
the man has fallen into a routine which is below him
the first verse is the woman trying to get him out of it, "there's time on your side..." is her telling him he has such great potensial and he could do anything
"but you work in a shirt..." is her pointing out how he is choosing to waste that potensial
the pre-chorus "but it dont matter to me..." is him trying to act like he doesn't care about it
the second verse is where they start argueing, too much time spent dragging the past up" is her telling him hes living in the past and needs to move on
"i didnt see you not looking when i messed up" is him saying she is too quick to critisise him
"settling down in your early twenties" is her saying he has resigned himself to a dull life without living properly first
"suck more blood than a backstreet dentist" is him snapping at her, that she drains the life out of him the way a bad dentist would have to suck the blood from a patients mouth
the third verse is when they begin to drift apart
"great ruins make for a greater glory" is him justifying his life, him being the ruins, he feels that his life has broken him but that makes him better than her as she has not suffered the way he has
"the only thing growing is our history" is her looking back over the futility of their floundering relationship
"knock me down i get right back up again, i come back stronger than a powered up pacman" is him taker her previous comment as a way of knocking him and making him feel guilty, he feels that all the pain makes him stronger but he really just raises for a while before falling deeper into the shattered shards of his own existance.
the chorus is the man's life in a nut-shell, he fears anything that is not farmilliar, repeating over and over because he cannot accept getting what he supposedly whished for earlier "all i wanted to be was a million miles from here". this song overall is about the decline of a persons life when they refuse to progress
I don't think that's actually a conversation. Your comment about the pre-chours contradicts itself. How can he act like he doesn't care if he desires to get away from that place? There is no dialog in there, it's a one person lyric...
I don't think that's actually a conversation. Your comment about the pre-chours contradicts itself. How can he act like he doesn't care if he desires to get away from that place? There is no dialog in there, it's a one person lyric...
I don't think that's actually a conversation. Your comment about the pre-chours contradicts itself. How can he act like he doesn't care if he desires to get away from that place? There is no dialog in there, it's a one person lyric...
I don't think that's actually a conversation. Your comment about the pre-chours contradicts itself. How can he act like he doesn't care if he desires to get away from that place? There is no dialog in there, it's a one person lyric...
i think it's a conversation between 2 people, a man and a woman the man has fallen into a routine which is below him the first verse is the woman trying to get him out of it, "there's time on your side..." is her telling him he has such great potensial and he could do anything "but you work in a shirt..." is her pointing out how he is choosing to waste that potensial the pre-chorus "but it dont matter to me..." is him trying to act like he doesn't care about it the second verse is where they start argueing, too much time spent dragging the past up" is her telling him hes living in the past and needs to move on "i didnt see you not looking when i messed up" is him saying she is too quick to critisise him "settling down in your early twenties" is her saying he has resigned himself to a dull life without living properly first "suck more blood than a backstreet dentist" is him snapping at her, that she drains the life out of him the way a bad dentist would have to suck the blood from a patients mouth the third verse is when they begin to drift apart "great ruins make for a greater glory" is him justifying his life, him being the ruins, he feels that his life has broken him but that makes him better than her as she has not suffered the way he has "the only thing growing is our history" is her looking back over the futility of their floundering relationship "knock me down i get right back up again, i come back stronger than a powered up pacman" is him taker her previous comment as a way of knocking him and making him feel guilty, he feels that all the pain makes him stronger but he really just raises for a while before falling deeper into the shattered shards of his own existance. the chorus is the man's life in a nut-shell, he fears anything that is not farmilliar, repeating over and over because he cannot accept getting what he supposedly whished for earlier "all i wanted to be was a million miles from here". this song overall is about the decline of a persons life when they refuse to progress
I don't think that's actually a conversation. Your comment about the pre-chours contradicts itself. How can he act like he doesn't care if he desires to get away from that place? There is no dialog in there, it's a one person lyric...
I don't think that's actually a conversation. Your comment about the pre-chours contradicts itself. How can he act like he doesn't care if he desires to get away from that place? There is no dialog in there, it's a one person lyric...
I don't think that's actually a conversation. Your comment about the pre-chours contradicts itself. How can he act like he doesn't care if he desires to get away from that place? There is no dialog in there, it's a one person lyric...
I don't think that's actually a conversation. Your comment about the pre-chours contradicts itself. How can he act like he doesn't care if he desires to get away from that place? There is no dialog in there, it's a one person lyric...