Split Screen Sadness Lyrics

Lyric discussion by vapur 

Cover art for Split Screen Sadness lyrics by John Mayer

i can tell you, i truly believe that this song, is about the pain he feels because of a releationship that never was, and should have been. he knows with all his heart that it should have happened, and because they were both heasatant weather its due to pure timidness or the fear of losing one another if it were to depredate their friendship. they have lost out on something that will now haunt the both of them everytime they close their eyes, forever. dreams full of "what ifs". this spilt screen is a picture his mind has created to bring comfort to himself. it helps him to believe that she longs for him as badly has he for her. he wishes he could bring himself to find her and make ammends or right his wrongs but the same forces that kept them apart are now aplimified by a distance barrier and the fact that it probably came to a hault. the hault due to i believe being too hard for one or both of them to keep masquerading as friends when they both long for so much more. ex. line " And it stings when it nobody's fault, Cause there's nothing to blame . ." i feel he is more the cause of the final decent, and that this is his realization that it will now never happen because they have let things slip too far away and too deep into that past. i find this song to be almost a regretful wish . . but maybe thats just me, i could be wrong. maybe he misses a dog he lost as a child on a family vacation. who knows . .

vapur i completely agree on what your saying. even though many people would disagree and this song may be about something else. i went through exactly what you just said and it kills me. and this song fits it perfectly and i couldnt of said it any better my self. thanks for posting this.

Wow. I love your explanation almost more than the song lyrics. You put into words exactly what I believe this song to be and it fits perfectly with my situation. Thank you for showing me the words I couldn't find.