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Big If – You Went Gold Lyrics 2 years ago
this song is probably about kelly clarkson.
ryan and she had a messy "relationship" throughout lights and sounds and paper walls.
a few songs from that era are about her.
it is speculated that ryan wanted them to date but due to her touring schedules and all of the attention she was getting while "going gold" kinda stopped them from doing so.
ryan went on to dedicate some songs a few times to "a girl he just couldn't get"

You're sleeping on a cloud
and I'm barely off the ground

and

I went nowhere, you went gold
You went gold

- probably paralleling both their careers, where she became huge and yellowcard unfortunately never really took off after l&s

Where I used to have a chance
I don't know you now

- this is a reference to knowing someone before they become famous and seeing how everything about them changes after that

You left me in the water
And everybody knew I would drown for you

- here he talks about how they never went public because of her career, even though he clearly wanted and everyone they knew were pretty aware of their situation. in the end, he felt abandoned by her, even though it was probably the best for her at that point

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