Pregnant Pause Lyrics
so the night is for mending
not everybody understands us
no-one else got the meaning
not everybody understands us
there's a blind spot that i can but get to
sometimes you seem like a lost cause
breathe a second feel that pregnant pause
when all the other words only come out wrong
a pillow talk patois from a land long gone
there's a blind spot that i can't get to
sometimes you seem like a lost cause
breathe a second feel that pregnant pause
The use of the word pregnant here refers to the phrase pregnant with meaning. The narrator is trying to salvage the relationship he has with his lover, he's trying to communicate to her but there are long, stabbing silences when they try to talk about their problems, and he is dwelling on these moments, these 'pregnant pauses', searching for possible clues in them over how their relationship is going.
I think it's more reasonable to interpret this song as it were sang to a second person but there are some songs that I instinctively feel were sang by me to me. This is one of those. As someone that's devoted to understand oneself, I think some parts of this song fit perfectly with my feelings about introspection, specially the chorus.
sometimes my heart hurts to watch you there's a blind spot that i can't get to sometimes you seem like a lost cause breathe a second feel that pregnant pause