Oh god I could write volumes about this story. It's such a well thought out fiction about lack of communication. She falls asleep at the wheel after a fight. He's left at home to think. The screen door he slams representing a useless display of emotion. While she slips off into oblivion, and the useless drunk who witnessed the whole deal but was unable to communicate anything about it because of his innebriated state. "Bottle in between his teeth...Buried in the sand at the beach." The cops scrambling for clues but the real reason for the crash is much deeper than just some ordered evidence. The cops again representing order. The moth that is doomed to repeat this self-abusing action of bumping into a light bulb...do you think the light bulb represents him or her? Light bulb, something bright that the moth is constantly attracted to. He loves talking about the moon. It's cycles, how it will follow you around, or in this case, she follows the moon aimlessly and thus crashes. Kinda like the light bulb. He's blowing smoke signs to her, another useless attempt at communication. And then he finally delivers the most biting line of the whole song. "What a shitty thing to say, did you really mean it?" There's so much subdued angst in that line and spiteful indifference in that line. And then finally the resolution where he tells you what the song is about and how he is finally going to deal with their situation. "You never said a word to me about what passed between us." And "Na na na na" Geez man, and he allegedly wrote it in high school!!! unbelievable.
Oh god I could write volumes about this story. It's such a well thought out fiction about lack of communication. She falls asleep at the wheel after a fight. He's left at home to think. The screen door he slams representing a useless display of emotion. While she slips off into oblivion, and the useless drunk who witnessed the whole deal but was unable to communicate anything about it because of his innebriated state. "Bottle in between his teeth...Buried in the sand at the beach." The cops scrambling for clues but the real reason for the crash is much deeper than just some ordered evidence. The cops again representing order. The moth that is doomed to repeat this self-abusing action of bumping into a light bulb...do you think the light bulb represents him or her? Light bulb, something bright that the moth is constantly attracted to. He loves talking about the moon. It's cycles, how it will follow you around, or in this case, she follows the moon aimlessly and thus crashes. Kinda like the light bulb. He's blowing smoke signs to her, another useless attempt at communication. And then he finally delivers the most biting line of the whole song. "What a shitty thing to say, did you really mean it?" There's so much subdued angst in that line and spiteful indifference in that line. And then finally the resolution where he tells you what the song is about and how he is finally going to deal with their situation. "You never said a word to me about what passed between us." And "Na na na na" Geez man, and he allegedly wrote it in high school!!! unbelievable.