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.
Tell me do you want to lie, sometimes
Tell me do you want to smile, when i cry
Well you can tell me
I promise I will not laugh
Yeah you can tell me,
I could care less about that
And tell me did you want to die, sometimes
And tell me do you want to smile, when i cry
Well you can tell me
I promise I will not laugh
Yeah you can tell me,
I could care less about that
And I just wanna
Feel you close to me
I just wanna
Feel you feeling me
I just wanna x3
I just wanna sleep here
I just wanna
Feel you feeling me
Because tonight
Will be the last night
That you'll ever see
My pretty eyes
And you can finally sleep
Without your telephone ringing
And you can finally be
Better, better without me
And Tell me do you want to die, sometimes
And Tell me do you want to smile, when i cry
Well you can tell me
I promise I will not laugh
Yeah you can tell me
I could care less about that
And I just wanna
Feel you close to me
I just wanna
Feel you feeling me
I just wanna x3
I just wanna sleep here
I just wanna
Feel you feeling me
Because tonight
Will be the last night
That you'll ever see
My pretty eyes
And you can finally sleep
Without your telephone ringing
And you can finally be
Better, better without me
And I just wanna
Feel you close to me
I just wanna
Feel you feeling me
I just wanna x3
Because tonight (I just wanna)
Will be the last night (Feel you close to me)
That you'll ever see (I just wanna feel you)
My pretty eyes (Feeling me)
And you can finally sleep (i just wanna, i just wanna, i just wanna)
Without your telephone ringing (sleep here)
And you can finally be (i just wanna feel you)
Better, better without me (close to me)
You fell down
So get back up kid
Well I did
So call me when you get this x3
You fell down
So get back up kid
Well I did
Well I did
You fell down
So get back up kid
Well I did
So call me when you get this
[repeats to fade]
Tell me do you want to smile, when i cry
Well you can tell me
I promise I will not laugh
Yeah you can tell me,
I could care less about that
And tell me did you want to die, sometimes
And tell me do you want to smile, when i cry
Well you can tell me
I promise I will not laugh
Yeah you can tell me,
I could care less about that
And I just wanna
Feel you close to me
I just wanna
Feel you feeling me
I just wanna x3
I just wanna sleep here
I just wanna
Feel you feeling me
Because tonight
Will be the last night
That you'll ever see
My pretty eyes
And you can finally sleep
Without your telephone ringing
And you can finally be
Better, better without me
And Tell me do you want to die, sometimes
And Tell me do you want to smile, when i cry
Well you can tell me
I promise I will not laugh
Yeah you can tell me
I could care less about that
And I just wanna
Feel you close to me
I just wanna
Feel you feeling me
I just wanna x3
I just wanna sleep here
I just wanna
Feel you feeling me
Because tonight
Will be the last night
That you'll ever see
My pretty eyes
And you can finally sleep
Without your telephone ringing
And you can finally be
Better, better without me
And I just wanna
Feel you close to me
I just wanna
Feel you feeling me
I just wanna x3
Because tonight (I just wanna)
Will be the last night (Feel you close to me)
That you'll ever see (I just wanna feel you)
My pretty eyes (Feeling me)
And you can finally sleep (i just wanna, i just wanna, i just wanna)
Without your telephone ringing (sleep here)
And you can finally be (i just wanna feel you)
Better, better without me (close to me)
You fell down
So get back up kid
Well I did
So call me when you get this x3
You fell down
So get back up kid
Well I did
Well I did
You fell down
So get back up kid
Well I did
So call me when you get this
[repeats to fade]
Lyrics submitted by savannah_rae
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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.
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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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.
wow. they don't sound like complete assholes in this song.
Hahah lazuliazul. Agreed.
"And I just wanna Feel you close to me I just wanna Feel you feeling me
I just wanna x3 Sleep here "
the best part of the song is the end. the end.
This is about breaking up with a girl. You hate but love the person at the same time.
Ditto what lazuliazul said;; haha. And, I agree with xrediscover. Their best song, in my opinion =].
isn't it your pretty eyes?
No, that is a mistake. MY pretty eyes
i get the vibe that this song is about someone break up with someone but still wants them to be well. at the end of the song he is encouraging the girl to keep on going after the break up but i dont understand why he talks about his beautiful eyes if he's trying to comfort her during the break up, its sort of backwards.
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well i don't think this song is about a breakup. i think he likes this girl so as usual, guy called the girl every night just to talk and whatever. but the girl seems not very interested. then he gave up, he said "i just wanna feel yo close to me" but the girl love to see him suffer."And Tell me do you want to smile, when i cry". so basically he said, don't worry, tell me everything you hate about me because i won't here anymore anyway. in my interpretation, "my pretty eyes" is like a symbolic for the good heart he has.
rhythm-wise, i like it that if you didn't listen to the lyric you'll probably think that this is the song you can dance to or it's happy song. but it wasn't.