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.
your flower tongue wilts with too much sun
and that's where we've been living for so long
so send it off the western coast
and watch the sun set with your shrinking voice
see, i ain't the boy she loves the most
i'm just enough to fill the void her daddy left.
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
(she says)
"wanna get me high?"
(she says)
"wanna get me high?"
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
but i often wondered just how deep i could
sink my teeth into that crease on your arm
the place where all the good times,
they go and grow.
would it taste the same, the same for me?
well, would it sound the same coming from me?
such an awful tearing sound.
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
(she says)
"wanna get me high?"
(she says)
"wanna get me high?"
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
changing for me...
oh, all the things they said about you,
paper thin walls stacked around you,
an hour glass is silhouetting me.
no matter how hard i try
or how dirty you fight
there is no place on god's great earth
where you can go to hide from me
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
(she says)
"wanna get me high?"
(she says)
"wanna get me high?"
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
changing for me...
and that's where we've been living for so long
so send it off the western coast
and watch the sun set with your shrinking voice
see, i ain't the boy she loves the most
i'm just enough to fill the void her daddy left.
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
(she says)
"wanna get me high?"
(she says)
"wanna get me high?"
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
but i often wondered just how deep i could
sink my teeth into that crease on your arm
the place where all the good times,
they go and grow.
would it taste the same, the same for me?
well, would it sound the same coming from me?
such an awful tearing sound.
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
(she says)
"wanna get me high?"
(she says)
"wanna get me high?"
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
changing for me...
oh, all the things they said about you,
paper thin walls stacked around you,
an hour glass is silhouetting me.
no matter how hard i try
or how dirty you fight
there is no place on god's great earth
where you can go to hide from me
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
(she says)
"wanna get me high?"
(she says)
"wanna get me high?"
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
don't you go changing for me.
changing for me...
Lyrics submitted by matthew_tm
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