Let's Go

"Here I am tied and bound Every night feeling low Bad days come back whatever"

This guy is trapped in a cycle of negative experiences being imposed on him. Not of his own doing. So he believes.

"In the sun I bathe, in everyday light You draft me down for a split second tomorrow What am I supposed to do"

Brief moments of solace inspired by her.

"I know you would make me happy Girl, I found my way out I found it, at last now I'm sober"

He believes she would make him happy and is his only way out of his pain and addictions.

"Let's go! Hey! Your're crying How sweet the sound"

That revelation leaves her crying. The reason is unclear, but he takes pleasure in hearing it. Perhaps as proof he has an emotional effect on her. Not necessarily a good one.

"Silence on I attempt Bow and scrape, toe the line Never get back together"

She was an ex, or at least they were together in his mind. He tried silence, groveling, behaving himself, but nothing would restore the relationship he wants.

"With the same old style ran down my life You drag and drop, attract me after all Anyway, I'm gone tomorrow"

The attempt to win her (back?) was boring and repetitive. She dragged him into behaviors he wasn't into, then dropped him just as fast as a cursor on a screen dropping files in the trash, with as little thought. Still he's into her. But that's ok, because tomorrow it'll all be over anyway.

"I know you would make me happy Girl, I found my way out I found it at last now I'm sober I know it would make it concrete Now you're crying How sweet a sound"

Whatever he's doing it's to permanently seal the relationship (set in concrete) and she's crying. But he is pleased by her tears.

"Let's go! Hey! You're crying How sweet a sound Everybody, let's go!"

Still moving forward with the plan, despite or even because of the crying.

"Hey! Let's go! We're back to back for hours We're weak and what they say 'bout loving like we do We'll never give this up You're crying How sweet the sound"

It'll all be over tomorrow but they are bound together for hours getting weak. They will never be out of this situation. She's crying. He's content.

Sounds like a profile of an obsessed psychopath trapping either an ex lover or just an acquaintance who was kind but casual. Trapping into a suicide pact in which she definitely doesn't want to be Juliet to his Romeo.

All the lyrics are focused on his feelings. She's just a tool or object valuable because of her effect on his mental state. He hears her crying generically as a sweet sound without even a synonym to add insight to why. It's not clear if she's happy or overwhelmed or touched or terrified or what. Doesn't seem to matter to him. He just likes the sound.

A darker, more active but equally ambiguous version of Every Breath You Take. Just as pretty, just as twisted.

First time doing this, I'm going to use the official video as an aid.

Before the singer even begins, we are shown by the video that he has a purpose, and he is very driven.

"Here I am tied and bound Every night feeling low Bad days come back whatever"

He's experiencing bad days, not his first time. He plans to passing them out as briefly and lightly as possible. -tied and bound- he has some expectations that restrict him, probably imposed by a combination of himself and his environment.

"In the sun I bathe, in everyday light You draft me down for a split second tomorrow What am I supposed to do"

He caught her eye in his moment of peace. Got him out for a second of what he was leaving metaphorically. Maybe, as the video shows, he was driven with a cause in mind, and she got him out of his way. This reason may represent his ambitions, but also his problems. Now, as she has already entered his life, he has to rethink everything.

"I know you would make me happy Girl, I found my way out I found it, at last now I'm sober "

We don't know in which degree she has been involved in his life, not even if she solely has. He may have had problems with drugs or something else, represented by alcohol (maybe addictions or whatever, but maybe he just was too obsessed with his purpose and got him sucked in from everything else, which is what I interpreted because of the video). It is important to separate this happy more as a pleasure o comfort as his ambition is one we suppose it will make him the happiest, like he is trading this lower happiness with his purpose. This verse is him realizing that she could make him happier in that moment, but at the cost of what he has thrive for so long. He thought he could take both responsibilities, her and his dream, but he was just coping using her as if he was inhibiting himself off his pains with her love/affection or even just existence. -now i'm sober- not only because his out of her, but because his has realized that and now sees reality as it is.

He is out of her and his problems, he is just explaining to her that he now is really driven, he has purged his faults or at least taken care of them.

"Let's go! Hey! Your're crying How sweet the sound"

He is happy now that he's making it, his path seems more straight forward and to his goals. She is crying, and maybe he doesn't like that (or yes, we don't actually know), but her crying is representing that she has realized that he has cut her out. It symbolizes for him that his relationship with her is over, and so he is. He is happy that he has already passed that and he's in another "chapter".

"Silence on I attempt Bow and scrape, toe the line Never get back together"

As much as he would like, everything with her doesn't disappear as if it never existed. He tries to not think of her, he sees himself as pitiful. How he has bowed to someone when he has something more important to do? He has done what he was expected and still didn't get the result he "deserved" (again, we don't know his involvement, but he is mr. super-right and he surely applies that for interactions too, as for casual and as the more personal). He says himself to never return to that, he wishes not to come back as he was.

"With the same old style ran down my life You drag and drop, attract me after all Anyway, I'm gone tomorrow"

He reflects his life -same old style- and his persona, her influence -drag and drop- and effects on him -attract me after all-. Then how that now doesn't matter, he has already got back at his path. -Anyway, I'm gone tomorrow-

"I know you would make me happy Girl, I found my way out I found it at last now I'm sober I know it would make it concrete Now you're crying How sweet a sound"

Another time he repeats the chorus, he needs to reassure himself that he is out of her and his problems, he is "just explaining to her that he now is really driven, he has purged his faults or at least taken care of them". Now it's not for her, the second part of the song has already been played out. It seems now that as he is now happy, or at least more complacent with the situation as he seems to be growing out of that, but he has to deal with his things on his own anyway. He is miserably happy that he is not the only one who suffers from them, maybe because he realizes that she cared too and that gives him value and/or to get back at her. I don't think the song tries to make us view hims as the good guy, but to sympathize with him, she might have her view of the matter too, but the song tries to view it from his perspective. He is telling the story to cope with his situation, and that's the energy behind the infatuation of the singer.

"Let's go! Hey! You're crying How sweet a sound Everybody, let's go!

Hey! Let's go!"

Now he is going for it, he doesn't care anymore. The rest of the song is now with all being in the table (he has ended in this situation) him trying to get the most out of it.

• The other astronaut that he mistakes as a woman and uses as his last drive.
• The spongebob in the window he is the calling to alert him that out of his perception (the spaceship he's in) there are more problems to address.
• The scene with the problems (the garbage) going now in his direction now that he has already completed his dream and has nothing to rely on.
• Now that he has his mind cleared up and everything, he sees the beer barrel and can use his environment to navigate through the world, as he has taken off his blinders.
• He literally smashes himself with reality figuratively (the other ship) and literally, as he sees that the other person was in fact a man, and now he can't even make a family which is the new purpose that he had assessed himself, so he has some to be with or to do at least. Without it, he would be alone with no meaning to existence. That drive is the drive to be alive too, to endure the reason to be alive.
• He breaks down, as he sees that the other astronaut is just living his life as good and pleased, as now that he too has nothing to do or live for he can't, and sees himself in that other astronaut. He has his moment of shock, but in the end he comes to terms with his new reality.

"We're back to back for hours We're weak and what they say 'bout loving like we do We'll never give this up You're crying How sweet the sound"

The rest is just a conclusion, he has to deal with how he has done with his life, and he will have all the time in space (literally) to do so.

It seems funny to me that the video makes the conclusion a little bit deeper, they show us two astronauts, people typically super driven, disciplined, ... everything, and even their attitudes are demonstrated in the game they play at the end, they are driven by the urge to compete and complete- I don't think that the game they play was chosen random, it's a one on one competition, a literal race representing the spacial race, they try to make a record, make the most out of the minimal and optimal time possible, the path of a race is straight forward and without distractions, ...

And they show them, they show them deprived of what they thrive for to teach us that this type of people (I don't think they try to demonize them) will always try to go for that they value the most, what they are willing to do to accomplish it, what means for them everything they do/how they see the world.

But they show us too how not really thinking about we value might be our downfall.

first time doing this, bear with me

it's about a guy that, although at first, he had huge problems, he wanted to be with someone. and this girl actually cares about him, so he completely changes himself. she's crying tears of joy because he went through all that for her sake. maybe even asking her to marry him.

"Here I am tied and bound Every night feeling low Bad days come back whatever"

There was a time when he just lived for himself today, but this Girl makes him think about his future. ("You draft me down for a split second tomorrow")

"Silence on I attempt Bow and scrape, toe the line Never get back together

With the same old style ran down my life You drag and drop, attract me after all Anyway, I'm gone tomorrow"

so, in the end, despite his resistance, he did something about it. she brought him out of it, inentionally or not.

I know you would make me happy Girl, I found my way out I found it at last now I'm sober I know it would make it concrete Now you're crying How sweet a sound

Let's go! Hey! You're crying How sweet a sound Everybody, let's go!

its as though everythings clear to him suddenly. he found his way out of bad habits and became a better person. he made it concrete. the exclamation "Lets Go!" is inviting her to go out and celebrate, and shes crying tears of joy, hence "how sweet a sound"