This is the pivot of the album (Foiled). Justin has laid out the history and this song encapsulates the transition from his old (horribly failed) relationship, to his new (he's now engaged) relationship.
The first verse is the old relationship. "An icing drip below your lip" echoes the wedding in "Congratulations" and "we undo the math" is easy enough to equate with the fact that 1+1 doesn't make 2 anymore (more accurately 1 doesn't "+" 1 anymore, if that makes sense to anyone besides me).
The second half of the song is the new relationship. A friend who has become more (A sudden slip from where / We used to be a year ago) and has shown Justin that love is worth the gamble (and the effort).
"I might crumble, I might take a fall again / But you're my everlasting friend" will make perfect sense to anyone in a really good relationship (I mean soul-mate territory, here). I was told before I got married that, if she's the right one, we would become each others' best friend. That is absolutely true, and finding that is worth the chance that something bad could happen on the way.
The story of "Foiled" is that love can happen again with the right person. One of the definitions for foiled means to make something brighter by placing it in the proper, complementary setting, and another is to stop something bad from continuing.
This is the pivot of the album (Foiled). Justin has laid out the history and this song encapsulates the transition from his old (horribly failed) relationship, to his new (he's now engaged) relationship.
The first verse is the old relationship. "An icing drip below your lip" echoes the wedding in "Congratulations" and "we undo the math" is easy enough to equate with the fact that 1+1 doesn't make 2 anymore (more accurately 1 doesn't "+" 1 anymore, if that makes sense to anyone besides me).
The second half of the song is the new relationship. A friend who has become more (A sudden slip from where / We used to be a year ago) and has shown Justin that love is worth the gamble (and the effort). "I might crumble, I might take a fall again / But you're my everlasting friend" will make perfect sense to anyone in a really good relationship (I mean soul-mate territory, here). I was told before I got married that, if she's the right one, we would become each others' best friend. That is absolutely true, and finding that is worth the chance that something bad could happen on the way. The story of "Foiled" is that love can happen again with the right person. One of the definitions for foiled means to make something brighter by placing it in the proper, complementary setting, and another is to stop something bad from continuing.
Justin is a genius.