Next Year Lyrics
So I won't promise that I'll speak to you today
But if I ever find another place, another time for that moment
I was never what I am
What you've become
And what you will do when I am gone
I won't forget, I won't forget
Saying "I'll be home for next year, darling, I'll be home for next year"
But you didn't know was there
So when I say goodbye you must do your best to try and forgive me
This sweetness, this sweetness
Another day, another excuse to accentuate
Another day, another year
Saying "I'll be home for next year, darling. I'll be home for next year"
Maybe sometime in a long time, you'll remember what I was saying "I said I'll be home for next year, darling, I'll be home for next year"
I love this song, it's good for homesickness...especially if you're homesick for the same place they are
This is probably a goodbye song to a loved one (most likely girlfriend) because he needs some time to himself. I think in the first verse he's talking about how he left her maybe because he is trying to find himself. Being in a relationship is too much to ask at this time in his life when he should focus on himself. He can't guarantee he'll speak to her because he doesn't know where life will take him, but if there was a better situation where he could be himself with her ('For that moment I was never what I am' ) then he would take it. But there isn't, so he leaves to travel. 'I won't forget' and 'If you think of me, I will think of you' shows he could go back to the relationship after this break because it was something worth having. Verse 2 for me is him stating what was wrong with her and why he had to leave. 'In between the lines is the only place you'll find what you're missing but you didn't know was there' implies that she is someone who doesn't see or read between the lines; she is just seeing the obvious and getting by without curiosity. He wants to do this opposite to this. The whole chorus I think says that if after this break they get back together again or after he returns home and the relationship carries on as before, she could go and travel as well. In the last chorus he also suggests that 'maybe sometime in a long time you'll remember what I had said there I said I'll be home for next year, darling' referring to what he said when he left her just then. That could all be completely wrong, but it's how I interpreted it :)
Well yeah I think as Trimble was writing Beacon after Tourist History they were off in many places touring and a large part of the album reflects off the homesickness and hardness of it all.
I Always thought this song was about someone who died or who's long gone, but maybe could meet Alex (or whoever wrote it) again someday, in another life or something like that. Pretty non-sense, right? Well, now that I read toMUSICiLISTEN 's interpretation I thought it was a lot wiser.
@takeapiece Thank you! I think your interpretation's completely valid too. That's the thing I love about lyrics; you get a different interpretation with every person :)
@takeapiece Thank you! I think your interpretation's completely valid too. That's the thing I love about lyrics; you get a different interpretation with every person :)
I definitely have it flipped then other people on here. I see it as the narrator seeing (technically the song is gender neutral) an ex girlfriend, crush, or even old friend. The chorus reminds me of when you bump into someone in public that you haven't seen in a while. The guy in the song clearly still has feelings for the girl, romantic or not, but he indicates a certain amount of bitterness, "Take me to where you are, what you've become." He suggests that she has changed. She is acting like nothing is different between the two of them, but once she leaves, she'll go back to her new life. The term "Next Year" seems to represent the constant postponing of them really talking. Perhaps their current arrangement is better, and if she comes back, they will no longer be close because they'll realize they just aren't that compatible.