This song isn't so obvious. What I get from it is that he used to have it in for this girl, but then she left him, and got with another guy. He sort of pitties this guy because this girl isn't as special as she seems. Then things start to go wrong between them, and they call him to ask him for help. And he claims to have forgotten everything about her. His memory's remote he only remembers things he chooses. And he's only choosing to remember the present. It's easier to hate her, when he doesn't remember all the good times they had. "Looking out on a subsitute scene," she's married to this guy who is pretty much fullfilling the same role he had before.
Now he seems almost like a child at camp, he's all alone. When you are at camp you mother sends letters to see how you're doing. You miss everyone terribly, but you say, "It's okay, it's alright, nothings wrong." Then you talk to the new friends of yours about your problems, and the councelor comes over to talk to him. The councelor never really helps, and tells you things you should do to keep your mind off things, alot of the time it's things you can't do. And then you begin to wish you were back where it all made sense, and you could do the things you had to do.
His biggest problem is that he remembers the times he had with this horrible girl, that were actually really fun. That, however, was a different girl, who does not actually exist. Since she doesn't exist, he can't ever know her. Thus, "I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you, anyhow."
This song isn't so obvious. What I get from it is that he used to have it in for this girl, but then she left him, and got with another guy. He sort of pitties this guy because this girl isn't as special as she seems. Then things start to go wrong between them, and they call him to ask him for help. And he claims to have forgotten everything about her. His memory's remote he only remembers things he chooses. And he's only choosing to remember the present. It's easier to hate her, when he doesn't remember all the good times they had. "Looking out on a subsitute scene," she's married to this guy who is pretty much fullfilling the same role he had before. Now he seems almost like a child at camp, he's all alone. When you are at camp you mother sends letters to see how you're doing. You miss everyone terribly, but you say, "It's okay, it's alright, nothings wrong." Then you talk to the new friends of yours about your problems, and the councelor comes over to talk to him. The councelor never really helps, and tells you things you should do to keep your mind off things, alot of the time it's things you can't do. And then you begin to wish you were back where it all made sense, and you could do the things you had to do. His biggest problem is that he remembers the times he had with this horrible girl, that were actually really fun. That, however, was a different girl, who does not actually exist. Since she doesn't exist, he can't ever know her. Thus, "I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you, anyhow."