Excuses

Beautiful production... the song seems to be describing a couple first sexual encounter...

I love how the lyrics are just the tiniest bit raunchy and used in the Reese's commercial.

"The song is about trying to reconcile falling in love for the first time, but specifically physically having sex for the first time or kissing for the first time. That kind of experience, and then growing older with someone and picturing yourself with them forever, and trying to reconcile how you can make those two things work or exist in one person." -Chris Chu, The Morning Benders

The quote above is in the video of the link I added below. The video shows an excellent performance of the song, I would definitely check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jgmgE-QDzA&feature=player_embedded 6:26-6:53

I can see what doc7 thinks, but I've always thought of it in a different way. I think

"You tried to taste me, And I taped my tongue to the southern tip of your body."

describes the beginning of the sexual part of the relationship,

and shortly after

"Our bones are too heavy to come up, Squished into a single cell of wood."

means something like "we're too tired to get out of bed; it's like we're a single entity." I don't think it has to relate to the last verse about old bodies; I think the instrumental is meant to show time passing, and that they [the "single cell of wood", now referred to as two pieces) have ~rubbed against each other~ so much that they're "whittled down," the old bodies thing could either refer to, yeah, they're older now but still together, or just, really fucked out? Excuse my terminology haha.

And I think the sparks thing refers to how starting a fire with two really smooth pieces of wood takes a really long time, but they'll keep goin' at it, ~ow ow~ until they finally get it going. Which again could refer to, yeah they're older so it takes more time, or just keep ~going~ in general mmhmmmm.

But yeah, I don't really think about old people at all during this song, despite the mention of "old bodies" haha

Thanks for making everything fucking italicized.

Personally i believe this song is about a man and a woman(duh). She is trying to "Taste" who he is and he is basically using her, then when she is espressing her feelings he trys to get out of it and eventually relizes that he loves her back but, not before trying new things, the world has beaten down his rough edges and made him relize that sex is not everything. (?)

For a couple of months now, this has been one of my favorite songs, but only recently have I really analyzed the lyrics. Oddly enough, this is clearly a song about erectile dysfunction.

"You tried to taste me" (She's trying to perform falatio). "And I taped my tongue to the southern tip of your body," (He's eating her out). (69). "[But] bones are too heavy to come up," (He can't get it up). "Squished into a single cell of wood" (Shrunken down to a much smaller size).

"I made an excuse" (The typical excuses older men make in regards to their performance in bed). "And you found another way to tell the truth" (She tried to make him feel better with either a lie or a backhanded complement). "I put no one else above us" <Not entirely sure, but likely a piece of the argument between the two>. "We'll still be best friends when all turns to dust" <The argument ended badly?>

"We are so smooth now" <No idea>. "Our edges are beaten, drift wood whittled down" <Sounds cool, but WTF?> "Old bodies slip when they make love" <Further supports the "getting old" theory>. "We'll mine our sparks to shoot us above" <I think "mine" should be "mind," but either way, it doesn't really seem to have any meaning, although it probably does>.

Anyway, it's an awesome song, and whatever it's supposed to mean, it has some pretty odd lyrics, but the velvety-smooth use of violin, the smooth vocals, and the serene use of piano made it an excellent performance. (A rehearsed performance recorded in a studio, but an excellent one nonetheless).

I think it's just a story of two lovers and the development of their sexual relationship.

At first they are young and new to being together, and the first stanza may be a brief description of their first time to make love. Maybe it's a first love type thing, or a finally finding someone type thing.

By the second stanza, it's the realization that they are in love, but they are each at first in denial with excuses and "[other ways] to tell the truth". They then realize that they are meant to be because they can be both lovers and "best friends". (the second stanza is the one i'm most unclear on... maybe its when they are middle aged and they are just getting used to getting older)

By the end they are both an old couple, and they've lost some of the physical strength they used to both have, but they are still in love so it doesn't matter.

What a nice song...This music is for matured minded people. watch this movie: IN CASE OF YOU.. then you will know the meaning of this music...

I agree with what everyone's said! The story of a couple having sex with each other, from the first verse being a little amateur as they're new to each other, and by the final verse "we are so smooth now"