Winter of Our Youth

This song is about not being over someone, and floods of memories and nostalgia just keep coming back to hurt you. "This is the winter of our youth, but I'm not there yet." I interpret this a few different ways. Winter could mean that the series of events that are causing him painful nostalgia took place in the winter and the season reminds him of that now. Winter is cold, and the opening line of the chorus is "I know the winter's getting colder, but why just cause we're a little older, do I relive it all?" The cold and its increase in strength could represent the cold between them, how they are growing more and more cold to one another as time goes on or the more they were together. It's not just a winter, it's a winter of youth. This happened when he was young, and now that he's older he's thinking about it again and trying to understand it. "Oh, I'm peddling backwards Even if I'm peddling alone, Can't help it, I relive it all" He's thinking back into his past, but he thinks he's the only one of this former pair that still thinks back on what they were and had and all the memories. "It's 4 AM here comes the fear, I'm not prepared yet, And when we pick over the past we glorify it" my favorite line of the song. It's 4 AM, he's nostalgic and as the song suggests, drinking, and he's afraid. He's afraid to think back on the good as well as the bad, he's afraid to miss it, and not being prepared...he'll never be prepared. You never fully move on from things like this. When we look back into our memories, we tend to be biased, think of it as being better or worse than it was, and in a drunken nostalgia trip of a youthful romance, you are likely to think only about the good parts, especially if you aren't over someone, or if you don't even have any bad parts. "I've let myself bathe in the past for way way way too long" meaning he thinks about this more than he thinks he should and he indulges these thoughts, he lets himself hold on to it. Overall, a great, raw, relatable song.