I basically see this one as being an insiders view of a complicated romantic situation and then after stumbling twice in your own confusion resolving to get back up and say to the other person "Hey! Ever been really fucked up? Ever not known left from right anymore? Ever just felt like a complete freak, misunderstood? Well that's how I feel but I know it and the fact that I'm defining the Freaks as something other, as something different to me, this means I'm already on the way up again."
I mean, listen to the positive undercurrent in the melodies, they're beautiful and warm and have this slightly apologetic tenderness to them, building up to a ride into a velvet sunset.
The lyrics are self-admonishing, addressing the author as much as the object. He's qualifying his role in the relationship "You're the lifeguard, you're the information guy".
He's asking himself repeatedly "Have you ever been all messed up?" and then advising himself "...things look much bigger on your knees". Come on, I think it's nothing but positive.
I basically see this one as being an insiders view of a complicated romantic situation and then after stumbling twice in your own confusion resolving to get back up and say to the other person "Hey! Ever been really fucked up? Ever not known left from right anymore? Ever just felt like a complete freak, misunderstood? Well that's how I feel but I know it and the fact that I'm defining the Freaks as something other, as something different to me, this means I'm already on the way up again." I mean, listen to the positive undercurrent in the melodies, they're beautiful and warm and have this slightly apologetic tenderness to them, building up to a ride into a velvet sunset. The lyrics are self-admonishing, addressing the author as much as the object. He's qualifying his role in the relationship "You're the lifeguard, you're the information guy". He's asking himself repeatedly "Have you ever been all messed up?" and then advising himself "...things look much bigger on your knees". Come on, I think it's nothing but positive.