Sure the song is about a broken heart, but the things she describes can only really be understood by someone who goes through a bad breakup after a long relationship. ("I now for sure that your home, but I just have to pass on by") This song personifies that sinking feeling in your stomach when you see something of your ex's (You left behind some clothes My belly summersaults when I pick them off the floor"), or a blindsided by a memory of them. In addition it shows how we rarely went to know exactly why a relationship failed, but would rather preserve that person in our mind as they were
Sure the song is about a broken heart, but the things she describes can only really be understood by someone who goes through a bad breakup after a long relationship. ("I now for sure that your home, but I just have to pass on by") This song personifies that sinking feeling in your stomach when you see something of your ex's (You left behind some clothes My belly summersaults when I pick them off the floor"), or a blindsided by a memory of them. In addition it shows how we rarely went to know exactly why a relationship failed, but would rather preserve that person in our mind as they were