This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
If we could only be in different places,
Among the same faces we can't forget,
I'd debt to the very distinction of love and hate
They're both in our hearts, we choose an imbalance
Oh, the thought, we are the force that make us
That must be why we're suffering
Interaction, delayed reaction
I've got taxes, and bills to pay
Somethings flapping, it's wings at me
Someone's clapping, I guess we're on t.v.
slow down, you broke down, ?? [x3]
slow down
stop now? [x4]
indefinitely
Moving in the right direction
I'm waiting to see if it comes to me,
or it's tied to a safe that is in the sea floor
Maybe I'll sleep, maybe I'll sleep through the century
I'm waiting to see if it comes to me,
or it's tied to a safe that is in the sea floor
What was going through my head?
Touch the pressure point on my neck
My head will snap off and fall into
The secret passage we built for enjoyment
Don't bring this to the picture
Did you manage your time?
Do you know how I do?
Downpour [x4]
On the point of your fucking patience
So I'll make this up, so we could proudly sign
Shit has come to this, it feels like no body's home
So my cover is blown, ? [x2]
And I won't forget what it means
Among the same faces we can't forget,
I'd debt to the very distinction of love and hate
They're both in our hearts, we choose an imbalance
Oh, the thought, we are the force that make us
That must be why we're suffering
Interaction, delayed reaction
I've got taxes, and bills to pay
Somethings flapping, it's wings at me
Someone's clapping, I guess we're on t.v.
slow down, you broke down, ?? [x3]
slow down
stop now? [x4]
indefinitely
Moving in the right direction
I'm waiting to see if it comes to me,
or it's tied to a safe that is in the sea floor
Maybe I'll sleep, maybe I'll sleep through the century
I'm waiting to see if it comes to me,
or it's tied to a safe that is in the sea floor
What was going through my head?
Touch the pressure point on my neck
My head will snap off and fall into
The secret passage we built for enjoyment
Don't bring this to the picture
Did you manage your time?
Do you know how I do?
Downpour [x4]
On the point of your fucking patience
So I'll make this up, so we could proudly sign
Shit has come to this, it feels like no body's home
So my cover is blown, ? [x2]
And I won't forget what it means
Lyrics submitted by stephaniesometimes
Hot Water on Wool Lyrics as written by Kurt Travis Jonathan Mess
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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Hmm. I think it has many different points all thrown into one song. But it's mainly about losing someone you care about a lot in some kind of fight, probably regarding lying or cheating. Or someone getting mad because they feel that it's not fair that some people just seem to have all the luck in life. And also how we are all so insecure with ourselves inside and out because we're so afraid of how people ar going to view us.
Idk, I'm just guessing. But that's what I got from it.
Anyhow, AMAZING song.
hot water on wool is one song that defines dance gavin dance its simply pure genius
The reaction of hot water on wool is to make it shrink and become unraveled which makes sense with the lyrics and leads me to believe the song is about a love triangle and the games a girl played with his head in the course of their relationship
The song is split into 2 parts the reprise is him getting over it while the first part is him obsessing over it.
The entire first verse is about being surrounded by the people that remind him of the situation he's in and wishing he could hold on to the love he has while not being reminded of the downsides of his situation and how the dual nature of the situation inspires both love and hate both of which feel like flaws he is creating within himself
Interaction, delayed reaction- he's interacting with the situation but fighting himself on the outcome I've got taxes and bills to pay- he wants to charge this girl for what shes doing to him so he can repay himself for the time hes lost on her and the love triangle somethings flapping its wings at me- shes teasing him with flirting as birds often flap wings to attract a mate someone's clapping, I guess were on tv- he can see that their situation is evident to all and feels mocked by the fact everyone can see what shes putting him through
the part where he says "waiting to see if it comes to me or if its tied to a safethat is in the sea floor" is basically him saying he wants to see if she'll change her ways and be with him he also says"maybe i'll slep for a century" as in he loves her so much he'd wait a hundred years for her
the part about the pressure point on his neck shows the pain he is being put through and the rest of this verse goes on to show his growing impatience and anger towards the situation with quotes like "my head will snap off and roll into the secret passage built for escorting the rapist to the victim" and "oh the boredom involved in patience"
At the end of the song he refers to "ripping the threads weve sewn" meaning he's finally through with the whole game shes putting him through and how he now feels so alone and how he'll never forget what it means to be the receiving end of some girls sick twisted games
i'll continue the rest of the explantion on the lyrics to the hot water on wool (reprise)
above was the meaning to part one now for the reprise portion
the first section is him resetting all of his feelings towards the girl and seeing her for the fake and meaningless being that she is also there is a good amount of evidence that the cause for the falling out was a love triangle hidden in the lyrics for instance the three wheeled shopping carts the reference to a mangled man thats not himself and the decision to repeat the word decide 3 times
then he goes back to the same lines in the first of the two parts of the whole song where he is getting over the fact that it can never be
In the end it turns out she is the one wishing she hadnt lost him and now that the tables are turned he decides to switch the roles and finally demands of her to be patient forcing her to give him the time of day.