This Time

A couple of corrections on the lyrics...

"For every chemical, you trade a piece of your soul, with no return. And who you think you know, doesn't know you at all, Their drain is needless.

Someday we'll wave hello, and wish we'd never waved goodbye to this romance, we'll drink up every line, and shoot up every word. Till there's no more"

Source: Machina lyrics...right out of the CD case

The song's about Darcy, the shady people she became involved with and her drug addiction. Her departure forced the pumpkins to breakup.

I was listening to this the other day and "someday we'll wave hello and wish we'd never said goodbye to this romance" got me thinking. If you haven't noticed, Billy still wears his wedding band, so maybe some of the song is inspired by what happened with his short marriage. Maybe letting go for the wrong reasons or something.

This song means a lot more to me after a bad experience; someone letting go because of circumstance and nothing else.

backfruey i think you're wrong, i feel it refers more to human relationship's chemistry than drugs. But then again it might be about jimmy's addiction too. This seems unlikely because it seems too personal to be about anyone else than the writer of the song, aka billy, who's never had big drug issues.

I love the last 2 lines...

You can play with the song order in this album. If you put this one in the end, it's like the sad climax ending. if you put With Every Light, it's the comforting optimistic ending. And if you put Age Of Innocence, it's the more mature and resigned ending.

As happy as I am that they're back together, it would've been nice to look back years later to say it ended with this band, this album, this song.

To me this song signifies the defeat of true love in the face of circumstance. It says to me that, when you're in love, you believe in it completely...and you believe that you can beat the odds and that lasting love has found you. But then when "the spell is broken", you really "must be told" and hear it be said out loud because you can't believe it's gone.

But lyrics like "crashing down again" and "only love can win" seem to say that even though you thought this would be the one, you've got to keep trying and that you may lose and love many more times.

It seems that the protagonist wanted this to be the one, and will forever feel sorrow for this loss but realizes the reality that there's nothing they can do to bring back the way it was.

mary mother of a god...that song is beautiful. That hit me hard...especially the "someday we'll wave hello, and wish we'd never wave good bye"...sounds like a breakup that happened for the wrong reasons type of song. Perhaps Billy was referring to those unique situations when people breakup not because they don't love each other but because circumstances make things difficult. The song is just gorgeous though...and as i really read the lyrics for the first time it touched home. Reality bites...just like the movie says.

"Someday we'll wave hello, and wish we'd never waved goodbye to this romance"... Great song... i thought this song was related to the end of the band, but it can also be about the end of a relationship.

SO Beautiful :( So sad...

oops... i wrote "to this romance" but it's really to those brown eyes...