Babe
There's something tragic about you
Something so magic about you
Don't you agree?

Babe
There's something lonesome about you
Something so wholesome about you
Get closer to me

No tired sighs, no rolling eyes, no irony
No 'who cares', no vacant stares, no time for me

Honey, you're familiar like my mirror years ago
Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword
Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me I should know
I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door

Babe
There's something wretched about this
Something so precious about this
Where to begin?

Babe
There's something broken about this
But I might be hoping about this
Oh, what a sin

To the strand a picnic plan for you and me
A rope in hand for your other man to hang from a tree

Honey, you're familiar like my mirror years ago
Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword
Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me I should know
I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door

Honey, you're familiar like my mirror years ago
Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword
Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me I should know
I slithered here from Eden just to hide outside your door


Lyrics submitted by 2014, edited by randy11242, Musical Morphine, ermoran, Martintheblade, teaspill, smokingloon4, DrazirahcSM13, DW_CW, shreykumar, XIIIFearless, keirawesley

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    My Interpretation

    This song is about an affair and is lyrically broken up into two parts featuring his lover and his wife.

    He refers to his lover as Babe. She is mysterious, alive, broken like him, looking for way to escape. She is not judgmental like his wife, and loves him in the moment. In the chorus he refers to his wife as Honey. She is familiar, boring, and the lyrics speak to the reasons why his marriage is failing. He has to slither back home from Eden where he has sinned with Babe. “just to sit outside your door” is a metaphor to the fact that when he’s home with his wife Honey he’s still mentally far away with Babe in Eden.

    Musical Morphineon November 19, 2014   Link

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