Cold Contagious

"Reality daytrips and your suit me, suit me ways Turn out the light switch, we've been awake for days And no-one's coming round here no more, no-one's coming round here"

• the first part of this reminds me of how when you're in a relationship, sometimes the person your with is always needing more and more pieces of you. or maybe you have to continually do things to suit the person your with in order for them to want to be with you. the second part of this paragraph is actually one of my favorite parts of the song "turn out the like switch , we've been awake for days". sometimes when depression really hits you hard (in this case, over a relationship gone bad) you always feel so tired all the time. no matter how much sleep you get, you always feel like you've been awake for days. it's like your mind is in so much pain and struggle that it continually tries to convince you to go back to sleep so it can rest. finally, the last part is just another impication of feeling abandoned by everyone, or more particularly, one certain person.

"Cold contagious, all the might mighty men What you save is what you lose out in the end Cold contagious, cold contagious"

*i think this is where i get the real meaning of the song. what it makes me think about is how when you're depressed, you eventually start to spread that darkness to the people you love ... the people who are around you most often. as if "depression (cold) is contagious". he realizes that the reason this girl couldn't stay with him is because his constant depression was making her become depressed as well. i see the "what you save is what you lose out in the end" line as a direct statement of his negativity. kind of like saying "why should we try to live life and strive to be happy or succesfully , when ultimately, in the end we all die"

"Paint your perfect day, I don't mind this I'm better off by the way, deeply grounded"

• what a perfect ending to this song. a very sad and hopeless ending, but probably my favorite two lines. he realizes that the girl will be so much happier without him, but he still resents her for it. gavin says something that is so simple is such a beautiful and poetic way. alot of times people who are depressed fall in love with it, and will give up people that they love before they will change. so in the end i think he's saying "go on and have your perfect, happy life without me, because i can only be myself if i'm depressed"

thanks to anyone who took the time to read this. hopefully i'll read a few more interpretations for this song.