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It's Not Living (If It's Not with You) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Danny ran into some complications
He falls asleep during conversations
He's gotta search the street when he's on vacation
The worst thing is that I'm in the same situation
[Chorus]
And all I do is sit and think about you
If I knew what you'd do
Collapse my veins wearing beautiful shoes
It's not living if it's not with you
[Verse 2]
And Danny says we're living in a simulation
But he works in a petrol station (selling petrol)
He says it all began with his operation
And I know you think you're sly but you need some imagination
[Chorus]
And all I do is sit and think about you
If I knew what you'd do
Collapse my veins wearing beautiful shoes
It's not living if it's not with you
All I do is sit and drink without you
If I choose then I lose
Distract my brain from the terrible news
It's not living if it's not with you
[Bridge]
I can't stop sweating or control my feet
I've got a twenty-stone monkey that I just can't beat
I can stage a situation, but I just can't eat
And there's a feeling, you're replacing embrace
[Chorus]
It's true that, all I do is sit and think about you
If I knew what you'd do
Collapse my veins
Wearing beautiful shoes
It's not living if it's not with you
All I do is sit and drink without you
If I choose then I lose
Distract my brain from the terrible news
It's not living if it's not with you
[Outro]
Oh, I'll try to get a job in a bank, I think
Danny spent time trying to pack in the drinks for me
I feel sick and I know I can't lose but
It's not living if it's not with you, it's not, it's not
It's not living if it's not with you, it's not, it's not
It's not, it's not, It's not living if it's not with you
It's not living if it's not with you, it's not, it's not
It's not, it's not, it's not, it's not
It's not living if it's not with you
Danny ran into some complications
He falls asleep during conversations
He's gotta search the street when he's on vacation
The worst thing is that I'm in the same situation
And all I do is sit and think about you
If I knew what you'd do
Collapse my veins wearing beautiful shoes
It's not living if it's not with you
And Danny says we're living in a simulation
But he works in a petrol station (selling petrol)
He says it all began with his operation
And I know you think you're sly but you need some imagination
And all I do is sit and think about you
If I knew what you'd do
Collapse my veins wearing beautiful shoes
It's not living if it's not with you
All I do is sit and drink without you
If I choose then I lose
Distract my brain from the terrible news
It's not living if it's not with you
I can't stop sweating or control my feet
I've got a twenty-stone monkey that I just can't beat
I can stage a situation, but I just can't eat
And there's a feeling, you're replacing embrace
It's true that, all I do is sit and think about you
If I knew what you'd do
Collapse my veins
Wearing beautiful shoes
It's not living if it's not with you
All I do is sit and drink without you
If I choose then I lose
Distract my brain from the terrible news
It's not living if it's not with you
Oh, I'll try to get a job in a bank, I think
Danny spent time trying to pack in the drinks for me
I feel sick and I know I can't lose but
It's not living if it's not with you, it's not, it's not
It's not living if it's not with you, it's not, it's not
It's not, it's not, It's not living if it's not with you
It's not living if it's not with you, it's not, it's not
It's not, it's not, it's not, it's not
It's not living if it's not with you
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I like how if you really listen to the song you can hear Matty singing to you about his drug addiction. "Collapse my veins Wearing beautiful shoes It's not living if it's not with you". Make it more obvious, i love it.
It\'s a song about two people who are both abusing substances. The guy whose perspective we get lets us know that he\'s using substance abuse as a way to avoid thinking about the person he\'s in love with who doesn\'t love him back. \n\nMy favorite line is "If I choose then I lose", meaning that if he has the opportunity to use substances, he will. Should he have to choose what to do, he\'ll choose being high every time. In doing that, he can temporarily avoid thinking about his heartbreak ("Distract my brain from the terrible news / It\'s not living if it\'s not with you").\n\n"It\'s not living if it\'s not with you" is an interesting lyric, especially considering how he talks about Danny as a bit pathetic, a lost cause, and a loser. It\'s like he\'s saying that his \'new life\' without this person with whom he\'s in unrequited love isn\'t even life, it\'s just some form of stupor or living death. "I feel sick and I know that I\'ll lose, but / It\'s not living if it\'s not with you", in other words he sees himself engaging in the same behaviors that make him look down on Danny, he knows if he keeps up the substance abuse he\'ll fail to achieve more in life than Danny, but he just doesn\'t care because life is just not worth living, and is too shitty to live through sober, without this person he loves. He knows that he\'ll lose.