This Is How A Heart Breaks

I love this song so much, love Rob Thomas anyway, but this is especially good! Reminds me of a couple of MB20 songs. Rob Thomas' voice is just so sexy!

I've heard Rob talking about it, and he said the song was about the process of falling in love: at first we think it's the best we could ever dream of, it captures us and trick us somehow but we end up realising it was not like that at all, it was just the same thing that we knew...we end up dissapointed and tired of it. I still think it's probably the song in the album that resembles the most of Matchbox Twenty songs, but I agree that it's more hopeful and upbeated...it is just not that bitter, I guess. Rob is quite a happy guy now! :) lol

I don't think this song is about a break-up at all. I think Rob "disguised" it as such, but really it's an internal dialog between two halves of a self-destructive person (potentially drugs "take a hit now", but not necessarily). It came together after seeing the video for the first time recently, in which Rob is running away from someone the entire song, only to have that person catch him...and it's Rob himself. Then I paid attention to the lyrics, and it makes sense.

First verses that begin "Don't you wanna go for a ride" are the destructive side of him trying to tempt him to do something he knows is wrong..."make the most out of life; don't take it for granted".

The rest of the song is him convincing himself not to give in to the temptation. Particularly the bridge of the song, talking to the "other" half of himself he doesn't want to need any more: "You're not the best thing that I knew Never was never cared too much For all this hanging around It's just the same thing all the time Never get what I want Never get too close to the end of the line You're just the same thing that I knew back before the time When I was only for you" All the reasons why he shouldn't indulge.

Then the chorus, of course, he breaks his own heart by giving in to temptation: "This is it now...Take a Hit Now, feel it break down...."

Like many of Rob's songs, the meanings are bewteen the lines, but the songs, particularly this one, are great on whatever level you enjoy it at. But once I interpreted it as such, this song got way cooler for me. Not just a typical "heartbreak" song indeed.

This is really a good song...can't beleive there aren't any comments yet.

Isn't this the theme song for this year's NBA Finals?

I'm heartbroken because this year's Finals SUCKS.

i love the part where he says "everybody get down". sometimes when your heart is broken you feel like you could do just about everything, but then again some other times you feel like you can't do anything at all

I like this one, is a very strong opener to his cd, like it used to happen with MB20. It's very powerful, and his voice sound as strong as they always did. Some lyrics stand out as well, like "You're not the best thing that I knew, never was never cared too much for all this hanging around..." it brings back a grasp of MB20's anguish, that we do miss so much.

This is absolutely the best way to kick off the solo stint, with the most upbeat, rocking song of the CD. I loved this song since I first heard it. I had a clip recorded off a radio station prior to the CD's release, and I listened to it repeatidly. I finally bought the CD, and the "Repeat" button was killed. Awesome song.

I agree this is an awesome song to kick off Rob's solo effort. It has the upbeat tempo and feelgood, singalong factor to it but the lyrics are still honest. It's got the trademark heartbreak in it but it's much more hopeful and upbeat than a lot of Matchbox 20 songs. I think it's just about how you feel the world crashing in around you when someone hurts you ('everybody get down'), but in the end, you move on ('you're not the best thing that I knew')

This is good stuff. I've no input on its meaning, but the song is immediately in-your-face and doesn't let up.