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You follow the footsteps
Echoes leading down the hall to a room
There is music playing
Tiny bells with moving parts
Here the shadows make things ugly
An effect quite undesirable
The bold and yellow daylight
Grows like ivy across the wall
And it bounces off of the painted porcelain
A tiny dancing doll
Her body spins as she pirouettes again
The world suddenly seems small
On an off white subtle morning
You stretch your legs in the front seat
And the road has made a vacuum
Where our voices used to be
And you lay your head onto my shoulder
Pour like water over me
So if I just exist for the next ten minutes of this drive
That would be fine
And all these trees that line this curb
Would be rejoicing and alive
Soon all the joy that pours from everything
Makes fountains of your eyes
Because you finally understand the movement of a hand
Waving you goodbye
Echoes leading down the hall to a room
There is music playing
Tiny bells with moving parts
Here the shadows make things ugly
An effect quite undesirable
The bold and yellow daylight
Grows like ivy across the wall
And it bounces off of the painted porcelain
A tiny dancing doll
Her body spins as she pirouettes again
The world suddenly seems small
On an off white subtle morning
You stretch your legs in the front seat
And the road has made a vacuum
Where our voices used to be
And you lay your head onto my shoulder
Pour like water over me
So if I just exist for the next ten minutes of this drive
That would be fine
And all these trees that line this curb
Would be rejoicing and alive
Soon all the joy that pours from everything
Makes fountains of your eyes
Because you finally understand the movement of a hand
Waving you goodbye
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i love the imagery in this song. this song, for me, reminds me... it's always carried (for me) a sense of these two people, these two lovers, and they're both quite imperfect. and their relationship is falling apart - and one of them is behind, or slow to catch on, and this is about that one realizing what happened. that maybe they weren't meant to be, and they've said goodbye, and the shock has given way to grief. and i love the part about the car. i can just imagine that, these two people in a car, driving and driving on an off-white subtle morning. and the music in the background i always thought sounded like the music described in the song, the way it's both sad and happy and floating and small and tinkly. and of course, conor's voice makes everything seem so despondent. this song is just floating here, waiting, sad.