Careful Lyrics

Lyric discussion by stoolhardy 

Cover art for Careful lyrics by Guster

Now that I've read the lyrics again, it actually isn't a jealous breakup song. It sounds like a song written after he had a fight with his girl, perhaps resulting in a "breakup." She is insecure and needs to be constantly reassured, that I see - but she only hears what she wants to hear from people, and can't stand it when the truth told to her is disagreeable. She must have fought with him at one point where the truth hurt her too much. She'd rather live in a world of make believe, but she needs him to knock some sense into her so she can live in the real world. From the rest of the songs on this album, especially "Amsterdam," I'd guess that she is idle and is high all the time, and he's the only thing that she has that is grounded in reality in her life. She wants to leave the relationship and go into the fantasy world of Amsterdam, something she probably says in many of her drug-induced conversations.