After All

I think this song's about his wife.

Besides the fact that a lot of these posted lyrics are incorrect, I still have feelings for "Afterall." This is probably the greatest "Sondre-esque" song of "Phantom Punch." The reason for this is that the song weaves a ballad about a man or boy falling in love quickly with a girl or woman. Now mind you that this love is not "Romeo and Juliet-esque," where Romeo fell in love just because Juliet was utterwardly beautiful,-no, this song is about true and seemingly unconditional love from the male narrator's perspective. The song stretches through the romance between the lovers which begins with the implied first date: "I hold back my heart's crazy rambling,-the fear that I should overwhelm your smile frightens the spiders inside me." However as the song progresses, the romance between the two begins to diminish. The male narrator tells that the girl is not sure if she feels the same way as he,-there brings tension. The song ends in a melancholy note where the protagonist is on the verge of telling the girl his true feelings but does not because he fears failure. Instead of doing anything about his current relationship with his lover, he decides to sit back and reminisce about their love "from a distance." Feeling that the joy that he had from their union is broken, he believes the only way to feel the "magic" again is by looking back in the past and reliving his joy with her through memories. A truly tragic but beautiful song. Sondre seems to have a hint of optimism in his tone which may imply that there maybe some hope for him "afterall."

excuse my grammatical error it was "outwardly," not "utterwardly."

I love the way the dude above me described it. Wow. amazing use of words and I could actually picture it better seeing lerche sitting back and actually seeing everything infron of him. :] This song is so amazing it makes me tap my toes. Any song that does that to me is an A+

I absolutely adore this song to pieces. And I agree with dude above, you describe it so perfectly!

^ Haha. Why, thank you Loneby. Guess I can really relate to this song.

You're very welcome :) Yeah, it seems so! But it's surely not a bad song to relate to! I get the chills every time I hear it :)

cool idea, dude.

i love this song. my friend did a brilliant cover and ive been listening to it ALL day. its ridiculous.

I like you too much After too little time I hold back my heart's crazy rambling The fear that I should overwhelm your smile Frightens the spiders inside me

I love this verse because its exactly what happens to me. i like someone so quickly, and then i try not to always nervously ramble because i like them so much, then i think about how much i said and how much we laughed and what not.... so cute.

but then maybe the rambling becomes too much. and the feeling starts fading.

then maybe later, when the stars align once again... magic may happen and you get a second chance.

Pretty song. Favorite lines: "The fear that I should overwhelm your smile/Frightens the spiders inside me."