The Test

"you're a stranger i know well, and not at all" amazing line.

i think this song is about finding something out about someone you thought you know so well. a friend, or girlfriend. but then there's the underlying sexual themes, as well. so im not so suree :/

This is an amazing song, my favorite from the new album I think. To me, it's about a relationship that's slowly falling apart. She's lost interest or is cheating and he's finding that he just doesn't know her like he thought he did.

i first heard this song at a time when it instantly made sense to me and explained to me what i was going through when i couldn't figure it out for myself.

"if this is test i'm losing my shit... ...if this is a test i'm wasting my breath"

if this isn't the end of the relationship, but just a really low point, there is no reason to freak out and lose hope, but you never really know if that's the case or not until it's over.

"you're a stranger i know well, and not at all."

you realize you're having all of these complicated feelings for someone that in reality, you don't know very well at all, but feel as if you do because of all that you feel for them.

This song is reaaaally good XD

idk I think it sounds more about a girl who's stringing him along in a relationship, playing him even, and he's getting tired of it; thinking that the relationship might have been a waste of time, and that they were never really that close.

To me this sounds like one of those relationships where you build someone up to be so amazing, you lose sight of who they are, and never really quite discover it. So when it starts to fall apart, you really want to keep it together, but at the same time you are realizing you don't know anything about this person, and have nothing in common except each other.

i agree with lilyloves, this album is about high school obviously...it makes me think of shit like that in my life when i was in high school, its weird and awesome at the same time...cuz things are so diff now...

also, could be about a relationship that ended..and both sides are too bitter to talk to the other...they dont wanna give in...maybe

Sounds like something I can relate to... It seems like two people are interested in each other, but they don't know much about each other.

"Look like a lush/But talk like a tease/The way you like it/In front of your house Alone on the street/You ask me to come inside/Asleep through all our classes/You hang me out to dry" Yeah, to me this has an underlying sexual theme... maybe they hooked up.

"If this is a test/I'm losing my shit/Would it kill you to care/As much as I did? Maybe the girl is playing games with him... it's driving him nuts. The guy cares and likes the girl a lot, but the girl is confusing him. Maybe she isn't showing much affection.

If this is a test/I'm wasting my breath/You're a stranger I know well/And not at all" He thinks that he's wasting his breath because the relationship isn't really stable, he doesn't want to play games so maybe he's thinking of just ending it & moving on. The whole stranger line tells that maybe he knows her in an intimate way, because they hooked up... but he doesn't know her "at all" because they don't know each other that well or they don't relate mentally.

The linee-"you're a stranger i know well, but not at all" can also mean that maybe this new girl reminds him of an ex-girlfriend in the past.

"Heart on a hook/Thrown out to the sea/Your basement busy Sitting in the dark/I turn the radio off for a/Phone call you'll likely miss Wake me when it's over/The last sound of goodbye" I don't really get the rest of this... "heart on a hook, thrown out to sea", maybe the guy is still feeling like he doesn't really have her since she doesn't know what she wants... his heart is out in the sea instead of her taking it.

"Well, let's imagine the end before we even begin," you said. AH! Favorite line... maybe she doesn't want to keep the relationship going or start going out with the guy because she doesn't think it will work out in the future. She's telling the guy to look at the ending, they're doomed, and that they should just end it now before it gets worse.

WOULD IT KILL YOU TO CARE AS MUCH AS I DID?

that's the shit.

Just about the narrator character having a girlfriend he loves who doesn't seem to care about him, or he really likes her and she's kinda leading him on to make him think she feels the same way, but does that with a ton of other guys.