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.
I couldn't resist him
His eyes were like yours
His hair was exactly the shade of brown
He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell
It was dark and I was lying down
You are everything, he means nothing to me
I can't even remember his name
Why're you so upset?
Baby, you weren't there and I was thinking of you when I came
What do you expect?
You left me here alone, I drank so much and needed to touch
Don't overreact, I pretended he was you
You wouldn't want me to be lonely
How can I put it so you understand?
I didn't let him hold my hand
But he looked like you I guess he looked like you
No he wasn't you
But you can still trust me, this ain't infidelity
It's not cheating you were on my mind
Yes he looked like you
But I heard love is blind
His eyes were like yours
His hair was exactly the shade of brown
He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell
It was dark and I was lying down
You are everything, he means nothing to me
I can't even remember his name
Why're you so upset?
Baby, you weren't there and I was thinking of you when I came
What do you expect?
You left me here alone, I drank so much and needed to touch
Don't overreact, I pretended he was you
You wouldn't want me to be lonely
How can I put it so you understand?
I didn't let him hold my hand
But he looked like you I guess he looked like you
No he wasn't you
But you can still trust me, this ain't infidelity
It's not cheating you were on my mind
Yes he looked like you
But I heard love is blind
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I don't think this is a parody at all. A lot of people truly think this way and separate love from sex.
I think it is sung with a bit of sarcasm. it's clear if you watch her performing it live. she doesn't REALLY care about her current boyfriend while she's trying to explain everything to him it's more that she's explaining the situation to herself trying to calm herself down. she's not a cheater,, it was just dark, you know :)
@madame I agree!<br /> <br /> First she says heartwarming words, and ends with something like: -but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down... <br /> She doesn't care about her boyfriend, to me she's making fun of the whole situation giving regular excuses and then saying something the boyfriend didn't needed to know (haha) and then nice stuff and all that goes on and on in the lyrics.<br /> <br /> And in the last paragraph:<br /> <br /> Yes he looked like you<br /> But I heard love is blind<br /> <br /> Even when the other guy looked physically like her boyfriend she really didn't care about that because "love is blind"<br />
she slept with a boy that looked like her current boyfriend when she was drunk but she is trying to explain that she just had sex with him and sex is sex, she didn't love him or even care about him and she thought about her current boyfriend the whole time. She is trying to tell him that her heart is still his when her body was the other dudes so it doesn't really count. Her love for her boyfriend and the fact that the other boy looked like him blinded her.
Or, in other words, she was drunk and made a terrible mistake.
Just shows what alcohol can do to you.
Uhmm I think it is a paradoy of the excuses a man or woman can come up with for infidelity. It is hella funny.
i love how it ends with but i heard love was blind. i think it means that it doesn't matter what he looked like or whatever, love is love, and it it doesnt matter what they look like.
Came across this song only recently and wow, what a frickin' song!!
Sounds like a combination of Erykah Badu and Jill Scott...
Anyhow, didn't really know what she was singing until I read the lyrics now and I'm really impressed...
She takes such a unique perspective on cheating, or unique in terms of the way she wrote it... The last line "But I heard love is blind" is what it is, but if you think beyond the literal meaning, she's saying that love does not see, it feels... it's something inside of you that isn't physical... the sex she had with the other person was completely physical and heartless, because in her mind, she was thinking of the guy she loves...
i think it is part parody at least.
Amy´s really a witty songwriter. This sounds like a parody to what many men have always said to their wives through ages. The strangest thing is that I get the feeling that if a man sang this, people would laugh; since it´s a woman who does, many people feel disgusted by the lyrics.
i love this song it does sound kinda like a parody. but lets not forget women cheat too. i loooveee the lyrics. imma chick and i felt like this once. mii man left me alone im drinking cause im stressing and i need his touch. but since he wasnt there i got it from someone else. yet the other guy wasnt anything important.