situational lyrics here are simply brilliant: a 15-minute smoke and a silent wave, exaggerated and sadly familiar from across the party or room or street. I see people noise not allowing a voice greeting. I see a slightly unsurprising run-in with a recently estranged love interest. Someone with whom things were going nowhere. The writer's recount of memories involving this person is instantaneous the moment he sees her, and from his dark unnoticed nook across the crowded party, he is again painted with misfortune and thoughtful disappointment (echoes drowning out conversations); in a place of which he is not unfamiliar. I feel that bitterness is not as prominent here as in other elliott songs, more like a regretful sort of harsh lament came at me from the first time i heard this song in lines like "there's no changing my mind" and "it's dead and gone as a matter of fact/ maybe for the best"
situational lyrics here are simply brilliant: a 15-minute smoke and a silent wave, exaggerated and sadly familiar from across the party or room or street. I see people noise not allowing a voice greeting. I see a slightly unsurprising run-in with a recently estranged love interest. Someone with whom things were going nowhere. The writer's recount of memories involving this person is instantaneous the moment he sees her, and from his dark unnoticed nook across the crowded party, he is again painted with misfortune and thoughtful disappointment (echoes drowning out conversations); in a place of which he is not unfamiliar. I feel that bitterness is not as prominent here as in other elliott songs, more like a regretful sort of harsh lament came at me from the first time i heard this song in lines like "there's no changing my mind" and "it's dead and gone as a matter of fact/ maybe for the best"