The beauty of this song is that the lyrics, though well written, aren't very deep. The depth comes from the basic truths about life that the story describes. He is visiting an old girlfriend, but how much she has changed amazes him. She seems "out of context" where she is, and it seems all wrong to him. One amazing thing is that despite the fact that none of the changes he describes are positive (out of context, gaudy, stranger) he still understands why he was the one worth leaving. Kind of a non sequitur thing. But perhaps he sees that he was unable to change. Amazing song, my favorite of 2003. And I can't stop listening to it.
The beauty of this song is that the lyrics, though well written, aren't very deep. The depth comes from the basic truths about life that the story describes. He is visiting an old girlfriend, but how much she has changed amazes him. She seems "out of context" where she is, and it seems all wrong to him. One amazing thing is that despite the fact that none of the changes he describes are positive (out of context, gaudy, stranger) he still understands why he was the one worth leaving. Kind of a non sequitur thing. But perhaps he sees that he was unable to change. Amazing song, my favorite of 2003. And I can't stop listening to it.