He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
I think it might just be alright
To leave what matters out of sight
Old habits die hard, holding on
Inevitable means it's never gone
Told myself what I need to hear
I think the point was very clear
I showed me what we missed since we
Slipped into inconsistency
[Chorus]
It seems if my ties with you get severed
I can't seem to hold a thing together
I just fall apart
'Cause that's my trademark
It's my, my trademark move
To turn my back on you
It's my, my trademark move
To realize I should improve
And sometime soon after that
You'll see me come crawling back
I'll kill the thing that turns me away
Amputate the arm that will disobey
Withdraw from everything that's hurting me
Until you finish your work in me
Told myself what I need to hear
I think the point was very clear
I showed me what we missed since we
Slipped into inconsistency
[Chorus]
It's my, my trademark move
To turn my back on you
It's my, my trademark move
To realize I should improve
And sometime soon after that
You'll see me come crawling back
It's my, my trademark move
To turn my back on you
It's my, my trademark move
To turn my back on you
It's my, my trademark move
To turn my back on you
It's my, my trademark move
To realize I should improve
And sometime soon after that
You'll see me come crawling back
To leave what matters out of sight
Old habits die hard, holding on
Inevitable means it's never gone
Told myself what I need to hear
I think the point was very clear
I showed me what we missed since we
Slipped into inconsistency
[Chorus]
It seems if my ties with you get severed
I can't seem to hold a thing together
I just fall apart
'Cause that's my trademark
It's my, my trademark move
To turn my back on you
It's my, my trademark move
To realize I should improve
And sometime soon after that
You'll see me come crawling back
I'll kill the thing that turns me away
Amputate the arm that will disobey
Withdraw from everything that's hurting me
Until you finish your work in me
Told myself what I need to hear
I think the point was very clear
I showed me what we missed since we
Slipped into inconsistency
[Chorus]
It's my, my trademark move
To turn my back on you
It's my, my trademark move
To realize I should improve
And sometime soon after that
You'll see me come crawling back
It's my, my trademark move
To turn my back on you
It's my, my trademark move
To turn my back on you
It's my, my trademark move
To turn my back on you
It's my, my trademark move
To realize I should improve
And sometime soon after that
You'll see me come crawling back
Lyrics submitted by ChancingTomorrow
Trademark Lyrics as written by Matthew Thiessen
Lyrics © Capitol CMG Publishing
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This song is def a twin to "Unfair" (a song she has been quoted as saying is about falling in love with someone who is already in a relationship) so it is presumably about the same person. Given the references to buying an apartment and not being able to see her love interest "after tonight," it's most likely that she's moving away and she'll "wait a day to break the bad news" (i.e. notifying him that she's leaving once she's already gone).
And, of course, the fact that she sees in him a fellow "idealist" and "dreamer" (terms commonly given to people with the INFP personality on the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)) portends that she'll always be left wondering if they would've been perfect together.
It's about the cycle we as Christians can so easily get to, of running to and from God. Its like, we finally get close, then get scared and run away, then realize we need him more than we thought, and it repeats over and over. Good song, easy for me to relate to