| Toad the Wet Sprocket – Fall Down Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The song sounds so much like my ex-wife and where I was mentally in the year leading up to the divorce. She was clearly not happy but wouIdn't admit it. I felt like I was stuck in indecision about divorce for a long time cause I knew it was over and I wouldn't admit that to myself. The good times never staying and cheap thrills fading away were the rare time we got along like we did at the beginning, and how the sex was trying to hold it together. 'When will we fall down' was that thought in the back of our minds that we were doomed ultimately, and we were just prolonging that. The chorus is delivered forcefully with the lyrics 'jump back' implying someone realizing they need to wake up, step back and look at things realistically. Been too long this time indicates the cycle of break up and make up being stretched too far. She hates her life etc.... described my ex so well. She constantly judged herself, was jealous and spiteful of her friends, and pushed others away hard enough to never recover that first impression. It continues with reference to the cycle of on/off and implies that neither is going to save it this time when it falls. The last bit is tricky: "For the last time conscience calls for a good friend I was never there at all" The subconscious had been calling for its 'good friend' to come to reason, and had been ignored until now. |
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