I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Up so close I never get to see your face.
Microscope I might as well be out in space.
Up so close I never get to see the view.
Down your throat I'm never sure if it's still you.
Up your nose down to your toes.
In your mouth way down south.
Up so close it seems I only think of you.
Up so close I never see the sky so blue.
I only wanted to be sure
That what it was was really pure.
I put my face down in the cake.
My feet were flailing in a lake.
Up so close, I never get to see your face.
Microscope, I might as well be out in space.
Up so close, I never get to see you.
Microscope, I'm never sure if it's still you.
Microscope I might as well be out in space.
Up so close I never get to see the view.
Down your throat I'm never sure if it's still you.
Up your nose down to your toes.
In your mouth way down south.
Up so close it seems I only think of you.
Up so close I never see the sky so blue.
I only wanted to be sure
That what it was was really pure.
I put my face down in the cake.
My feet were flailing in a lake.
Up so close, I never get to see your face.
Microscope, I might as well be out in space.
Up so close, I never get to see you.
Microscope, I'm never sure if it's still you.
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no, jawbreaker, stoney's right - c'mon, "way down south" - i don't think that it gets any clearer then that.
He never sees the girl he's with, because he's always "up so close"...to her vagina, that is.
i think that this song definitely adresses oral sex with lyrics like "way down south" but "down your throat" and "in your mouth" for example i think are about kissing. so it's about how in general when your being intimate with somone you can't really see them cus you're too close. it's why i can't help but peek somtimes when i kiss.
That's true but it's too obvious to be interesting. I think it's talking about a relationship where all two people do anymore is have sex, so they don't know each other anymore. "I might as well be out in space" - they're physically intimate, but mentally lightyears apart.
The ultimate meaning is that sexual intimacy alone isn't real intimacy at all. Hence "I might as well be out in space." "I'm never sure if it was still you" -- she might as well be anyone, because they don't have a mental connection anymore.
Oh, and "microscope" refers to seeing only a small aspect of her, that is, parts of her body and her sexuality, not the big picture -- her whole person.
Is it me or is this song about oral sex???? "I put my face down in the cake" He's up so close to her down there he can't see her face. Then he talks about down her throat, she must return the favor!!!!!!!! sigh So deep and meaningful.
I think you are retarded. But, you might have a point... then again probably not.
Might just be my personal experience speaking here but it sounds like this song could be about being so close to someone that you lose sight of other things in your life, though he sort of makes it sexual so I don't know what to think.
I think that the people in song got so close that they didnt realize that they were changing and now there 2 complettly different people
Is that even possible?
I interpreted this song in an entirely different way. When I first heard this song I thought about a long distance relationship. Two people constantly far away, and when they do see each other close up, they soak up every little detail of the other person. The second part of each line indicated the previous distance to me, rather than being "too close".
"I might as well be out in space" "I never get to see the view" "I'm never sure if it's still you" "It's seems I only think of you"
That last line "Up so close, I never see the sky so blue" was the part that indicated that he was happy to be so close. It's as if the world around you is brighter now that the other person is there. In the very end of the song I hear him say "oh it's so sad." Long distance couples get that little time together, but they always have to go back to being far away.
this song is about how the more you're in love with a person, the more distorted they become and the less you know who they really are
(it's not about sex)
This song is clearly about doing cocaine...