In an interview on Red Mag Matt Peters explains it as so: “That’s kind of a cryptic one. That was actually written a while before the rest of the song, and as we were working on ‘Birthday’, it kind of just seemed too perfect not to use… The pronoun ‘you’ is more a sneaky way to say ‘me'; the ‘you’ is a royal ‘you’ more than anything. It’s that feeling of, if you don’t act — if you don’t change your mind — at some point, everything’s going to change around you, and you can’t control it, and you’re just going to be left standing there. That’s a really bad description of it, but I think it kind of speaks for itself.”
This song's been bugging me for a while and when they released the track by track video I pretty much went crazy when the one song they didn't explain was this one. Here's the link to the interview: redefinemag.com/2013/royal-canoe-band-interview-today-were-believers-lyrics/
In an interview on Red Mag Matt Peters explains it as so: “That’s kind of a cryptic one. That was actually written a while before the rest of the song, and as we were working on ‘Birthday’, it kind of just seemed too perfect not to use… The pronoun ‘you’ is more a sneaky way to say ‘me'; the ‘you’ is a royal ‘you’ more than anything. It’s that feeling of, if you don’t act — if you don’t change your mind — at some point, everything’s going to change around you, and you can’t control it, and you’re just going to be left standing there. That’s a really bad description of it, but I think it kind of speaks for itself.” This song's been bugging me for a while and when they released the track by track video I pretty much went crazy when the one song they didn't explain was this one. Here's the link to the interview: redefinemag.com/2013/royal-canoe-band-interview-today-were-believers-lyrics/