Hope For Us

it's about a guy trying to salvage what was left of a relationship, hence the title of the song "there is hope for us". he felt he did everything in his power to keep the relationship from self destructing.

"i was inbetween, you were matches and kerosene"

the girl has moved on with her life and the guy still wonders if he still means anything to her, or if she has forgotten him almost as a lark.

"did you celebrate without me? did you tell them all about me?"

he wants more than anything to prove to her that his love for her was true.

"if you ever had a doubt, kiss me on the mouth"

he feels that kissing him on the mouth (an act notably similar to resuscitation) would not only re-unveil their love for each other, but would also revive their broken relationship. thus, his metophorical dying plea to her:

"kiss me on the mouth"

he tries to convince her that her life now isn't as complete or as truly happy as when they were together.

"you can't write, you can't sing, you can't do anything at all"

he wants her to make an attempt to reach out and save him to show him that she still cares.

"is there someone here, can you make the call, please make the call"

this line also reflects his feeling of desperation and fear that someone else might be part of her life.

what he wants her to understand, is that although it may have seemed logical to break up at the time, love is a very irrational thing. it defies all logic. there are "constants [they] can't define."

the last verse sums up and reemphasizes his want for her to be as complete and happy only as he knew her. if only she would kiss him on the mouth give their relationship another chance.

"can you sing for me? can you sing it out?"

i never really got into this band, but as of late, i've learned to love this song

I completely agree with passionfrenzy. but...sense this website is songMEANINGS I guess it would be the right place to say that I don't think I completely get this song....

i got the feeling of a long-term-serious-on-off-relationship, if you can follow that. I didnt think about it that way until a friend (ironicaly one of such a relationship) pointed out the kiss me on the mouth in the sense that a kiss is the place where there is the most honesty, thus truth about one's feelings.

i a new thought also just popped into my mind, it is kind of a stretch, but maybe if the entire thing is looked as an OD that one person watches and tries to save the ODer's like with rescue breathing, but at the same time is responsible, and then afterwards the issue becomes unspoken, or almost taboo and this is a way to confront it

wow, "kill-in-tons", that actually does make sense. the whole ambulance thing and all.

but since i believe that people can have their completely different reactions to it, i kind of feel like the singer is singing about someone they love but it kills them to love them. it just feels like, during the "kiss me on the mouth", they love them a lot but know that the person, i don't know, may not love them back/enough/as much? just the tone of it sounds kind of desolate and slightly sesperate and kind of grabs my heart every time i listen to this song.

this song made "jealous sound" one of my favorite bands.

i agree with the resucitation thing, but i think of it as more in the relationship sense. like, trying to revive a dying thing they can't let go of. but that's just my interpretation because this song is personal to me