Nothing Like a Song

Is it just me or does it sound like a girl is getting broken up with? "You didn't say the words I would have said" sounds like the girl is saying that they didn't get told what they wanted to hear ("I love you", "I want us to stay together", something along those lines), but she knows that her lover couldn't help the "doubt" that filled their head, or falling out love with her, because you can't hate someone because their feelings change. Their relationship was just an "ordinary try". You can't help things like that, it's a part of life: "We learn to live, we live to die." It's kind of like the girl is saying this to reassure herself that things will be okay. And then it goes back to the girl talking about her response to their break-up, her face in a forced smile with nothing to reply with. Then the next stanza is a little confusing, but it kind of sounds like she's kind of talking to herself like, "When you wake up alone, just keep singing alone. It will be okay." So then it sounds like she's talking more to herself saying, "I'm not what you write in your books, and no I'm nothing like a song," because she's convincing herself, "I'm not perfect. I'm not the sweet perfect love image you've always had in your head." Then the whole, "And will you answer me / I alread know / I asked you an answer / but I already know / And can you come back home / You already know / You don't ask / 'Cause you already know" sounds like the girl being so desperate for him to be her's again and begging ... but already knowing the rejection she'll have to face, so sure of herself. And the lover knows he can come back home,, if he ever chooses to. He'll never have to ask, because she'll always be waiting ...

As for what other things I didn't mention I'm not really sure ... I would love to know what people think of the "It's an unfamiliar song / You said you'd like to sing along ... etc" part. There's a part of that stanza that I really like though: "And when I wake up freezing, but know half believing, it was this I feared." Probably just because I can relate to it. It's like, ever since the break-up, I go to sleep heartbroken, hoping that everything will change when I wake up. Then I wake up, half-denial and half-believing. It's like, "This can't be really happening ... things were never supposed to fall apart. But they did. Shit." Haha. Yeah ...

this is a beautiful song... i think its about a relationship.. they know one another so well but she needs to remind him that she is more than what he knows.

Pretty song. :]

I always thought of this song as one terrible fight in a relationship. Sometimes, people get caught up in the idea of romance and how it's supposed to be that they forget real people aren't like that. They're not those characters in sappy Lifetime movies that make your stomach ache with their sweet words, not what you'd write in your books, and nothing like a song. So, the author's love leaves. Not because of that one fight, per say, just because of a building momentum that can't be fixed, it seems. And the author can't let go of that person, or who she made that person out to be in her mind. mm but those are just my thoughts of the song.

"Just accept and don't ask why", DAMN. I should've replied like that to him the other day when he kept asking me why.

Such a lovely song.

The song is missing the last verse:

it's an unfamiliar song you said you'd like to sing along but you couldn't change the key i can't sing, it doesn't suit me. and when i awake up freezing, now happy leaving, it was this i feared. cause it's not just the words that you whisper in my ear.

and will you answer me? i already know, i asked you to answer, but i already know.

and can you come back home? you already know, you dont ask, cause you already know.

and will you come back home?

TOTEZ ABOUT CONNOR. yes?

....wait, this song is about how she DID want to leave him? I thought it was that she was trying to get him back.

"Will you answer me?".... =[ =[

AT LAST! I THINK I GOT IT! :)

"it's an unfamiliar song you said you'd like to sing along but you couldn't change the key i can't sing, it doesn't suit me."

Okay, it's the one part I never quite could interpret, but it finally clicked. Well I think here they're talking about their failing relationship. The "unfamiliar song" is their relationship. It's just not working out. The guy would like to "sing along", meaning he'd LIKE to try and go on pretending that everything is okay but he "couldn't change the key" just can't adjust for it to work out with the rest of his life. Then it sounds like the girl is saying that she'd also like to have the relationship work, but she knows it won't work either.