Slip and stumble at my first offenses
It's not treason, it's no lie
You talk in paragraphs
I write my sentence
It's not treason, it's no lie
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x2]
Crush and crumble under your defenses
It's not treason, it's no lie
You frame the photograph
I sit on fences
Change of season, love can die
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x4]
If we tear out the tumor
It's later, never sooner
If we tear out the tumor
It's later, never sooner
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x2]
You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
Wake up x3
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x2]
You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up [Repeat: x4]
Wake up
It's not treason, it's no lie
You talk in paragraphs
I write my sentence
It's not treason, it's no lie
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x2]
Crush and crumble under your defenses
It's not treason, it's no lie
You frame the photograph
I sit on fences
Change of season, love can die
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x4]
If we tear out the tumor
It's later, never sooner
If we tear out the tumor
It's later, never sooner
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x2]
You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
Wake up x3
It seemed a place for us to dream [Repeat: x2]
You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up [Repeat: x4]
Wake up
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In a way I think there's some reference to drug use here too and how that's making him lose reality of the dying relationship, as many drugs cause coma/make you sleep better when used in certain quantities.
In a way I think there's some reference to drug use here too and how that's making him lose reality of the dying relationship, as many drugs cause coma/make you sleep better when used in certain quantities.
"You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up"
Just beautiful...it's amazing, how Placebo took a sleep disorder, and made it seem so heavenly!
It shows how the protagonist tries to make his partner see that their relationship has failed.
And we progress through different stages with him.
In the first verse, there's the first argument between the lovers 'my first offenses' which throws the partner off balance and who tries to justify 'talk in paragraphs' while the protagonist has already made up his mind "I write my sentence'.
In the second verse, the partner is still fighting against the shocking truth the protagonist tells them 'defenses'.
While they hold on to what once was 'frame the photograph', the protagonist is ready to leave 'I sit on fences'.
The turning point moment is the confession 'Change of season, love can die'.
They had a wonderful time together but it was just a dream and now they have to wake up and accept reality. They can't stay in that dream any longer or they will never get out of a life in which they are not meant for each other. The 'tumor' refers to the illness that has befallen their relationship, and as the saying goes: Better a miserable end than endless misery.
also
"You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
Wake up x3 "
also refers to being Narcoleptic because you can become paralyzed and never wake up. If you dont keep in check with what youre doing you can become paralyzed and since it causes hullusionasions it would be easier to get caught up in it.
Then again, Im not positive.
'Place for us to dream' - the idea of a paradise
'Slip and stumble at my first offenses' - descent in savargery etc.
I dunno
"you talk in paragraphs, i write my sentence"--- that line illustrates that he's the one with no important things to say and thus the weaker one; the one who's tired of the seriousness and wants to dream with her.
then Bribri's voice rises as he sings, "you better keep it in check or you'll end up a wreck and you'll never wake up", which sounds like the stronger spouse telling the narcoleptic 'i told you so'.