This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
I am lost in a rainbow
Now our rainbow is gone
Overcast by your shadow
As our worlds move on
In this shirt, I can be you
To be near you for a while
In this shirt, I can be you
To be near you for a while
There's a crane knocking down
All those things that we were
I awake in the night
To hear the engines pout
There's a pain, it does ripple
Through my frame, makes me lame
There's a thorn in my side
It's the shame, it's the prize
Of you and me, ever-changing
Moving on now, moving fast
And this touch must be wanted
Must become through your ask
But I need Jake to tell you
That I love you, it never rests
And I bled every day now
For a year, for a year
I did send you a note
On the wind for to read
Our names there together
Must've fallen like a seed
To the depths of the soil
Buried deep in the ground
On the wind, I can hear you
Call my name, held the sounds
I am lost, I am lost
In a rainbow
Now our rainbow is gone
I am lost in a rainbow
Now our rainbow is gone
I am lost, I am lost
I am lost, I am lost
I am lost
Now our rainbow is gone
Overcast by your shadow
As our worlds move on
In this shirt, I can be you
To be near you for a while
In this shirt, I can be you
To be near you for a while
There's a crane knocking down
All those things that we were
I awake in the night
To hear the engines pout
There's a pain, it does ripple
Through my frame, makes me lame
There's a thorn in my side
It's the shame, it's the prize
Of you and me, ever-changing
Moving on now, moving fast
And this touch must be wanted
Must become through your ask
But I need Jake to tell you
That I love you, it never rests
And I bled every day now
For a year, for a year
I did send you a note
On the wind for to read
Our names there together
Must've fallen like a seed
To the depths of the soil
Buried deep in the ground
On the wind, I can hear you
Call my name, held the sounds
I am lost, I am lost
In a rainbow
Now our rainbow is gone
I am lost in a rainbow
Now our rainbow is gone
I am lost, I am lost
I am lost, I am lost
I am lost
Lyrics submitted by Wunderkind92, edited by apt, LukeUs, ottfangirl, madlyricist, melanie116, DealWithGod
In This Shirt Lyrics as written by James Gerard Mcdermott
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First up; this song destroys me every time I listen to it. Usually my emotional reaction to a song lessons pretty significantly after a while, but god this really has stuck with me. It's just so genuinely plaintively longing and hopeless.
Interpretation wise It's definitely Jamie McDermott's relationship with 'Jake' having come to an end, as others here have already noted. My point of contention is whether Jake has left him, whether they grew apart or whether Jake has died.
Pointing toward Jake having left him is the fairly clear 'I awake in the night, to hear the engines purr'; he's waking up to the car starting up, with Jake leaving him in the dead of night. The 'of you and me ever changing, moving on now moving fast' also feels pretty definitive- two men gone their separate ways. And the thorn in his side, the shame and pride, could be that he knows he caused this to happen, he's somehow responsible for (or at least feels he is) the crane knocking down all the things they were.
But the imagery of the note on the wind, and its burial, with the evocative links to earth and soil gives a feeling of death to the whole thing. And really the whole song's tone feels so final- 'I am lost', hearing the echo of his name on the wind. It seems more than having someone you love leave. Sounds like decay.
So my thought would be that in his leaving, Jake dies, and Jamie never gets the chance to redeem himself, doesn't have the option to repair the relationship and is stuck in this state of perpetual self hatred. Bleeding for a year. Needing to tell him how much he loves him, but being totally unable to. Writing it in a note that he knows cannot reach him. Buried deep in the ground.
Anyways, freaking love this song, especially how unabashedly gay it is. I'm normally not one to go in for the whole gay suffering trope, always looking for more positive portrayals in media for a slight self-worth boost/optimistic future, you know? But this set of lyrics is so damn powerful I'm willing to put that aside for a bit.