You're Going Back

I agree with Fennecfox a little bit but have a slightly different approach. I think it's about a falling out of two friends.

"I could roll you to hell I could swim from your heavens I could drive you so safe I could walk you to here"

• I take these lines to illustrate how the singer cares so much for the person he's singing to. He'd go from one extreme to the other if the person wanted. He reassures the person that he'd be safe with the singer - he'd walk along and guide him. He'd be supportive and caring.

"Let us float in the tears Let us cry from the laughters When it's not for some sake And the city's not near"

• Here is where the singer suggests that their relationship change... he suggests that they become more than surface friends, that they become people who share emotions not for the hell of it ("some sake") but to help each other, they become people who can spend the day out away from the city, away from the hustle and bustle, and be with each other and be happy.

"Well now, you're going back You're going back, you're going back"

• But the singer realizes the other person doesn't want to do that. I take "going back" as not necessarily going back to being "surface friends", but going back as like retreating away, completely.

"But I hope you could hear All the screams from the forest All the ghosts in the trees And the love of a dog"

• The singer wishes that he could have someone to talk to about his emotions. It's as if he has secrets ("ghosts") he wishes he could talk about, even scream out. I take the "love of a dog" line as the singer illustrating he wished that his friend could love him like a dog, loyal and dedicated and always there.

"You said, "Driver, please, don't go that fucking way" You said, "Just let it go away" You said, "Just let it go""

• His friend now saying, I don't want any part of this.

I also like to think about the idea of friendships looked on as "driver" and "person being driven"... whether it's always the same person in the friendship or if the roles switch throughout it... or whether it's a concept that applies to friendship at all.

Very good song, really applies to me a lot right now.