My guess is that the song is about two people who had had a relationship in the past, but now the narrator is just her friend, and helps her through all her failed relationships.
"We’ll drink away the pain of the one you lost this time"
Now that the narrator has gotten a little older, he realizes that he misses being with her. He begins asking himself questions such as "How do you sleep in the cinema alone?" and wonders if he should call her up and pour his heart out to her
"Do you keep in touch with the one that killed you?
The one that made you start to dream your life away?
Get on the telephone and tell her you’re alone
And if she doesn’t take you back
It’s gonna stay that way"
Now he just sits alone in the theaters, missing her, and pretending that the love story playing on the screen is actually his.
"I haven’t seen the movie but I know the play
The lovers reunite, but it’s not your face up there"
He then decides that its dumb to sit in a theater and wonder what his life could be like, he needs to get out and do something otherwise hell end up alone forever.
"So dream all you like
Dream all you like, you’re gonna end up alone"
My guess is that the song is about two people who had had a relationship in the past, but now the narrator is just her friend, and helps her through all her failed relationships. "We’ll drink away the pain of the one you lost this time"
Now that the narrator has gotten a little older, he realizes that he misses being with her. He begins asking himself questions such as "How do you sleep in the cinema alone?" and wonders if he should call her up and pour his heart out to her "Do you keep in touch with the one that killed you? The one that made you start to dream your life away? Get on the telephone and tell her you’re alone And if she doesn’t take you back It’s gonna stay that way"
Now he just sits alone in the theaters, missing her, and pretending that the love story playing on the screen is actually his. "I haven’t seen the movie but I know the play The lovers reunite, but it’s not your face up there"
He then decides that its dumb to sit in a theater and wonder what his life could be like, he needs to get out and do something otherwise hell end up alone forever. "So dream all you like Dream all you like, you’re gonna end up alone"