i just watched the music video for this song and the lyrics started to make a lot more sense to me. It shows the band playing in a glass box made of two way mirrors so that no one can see out, but anyone on the outside can look in. There is a girl outside looking in at the lead singer, and he is at the glass looking blindly out, he moves around the box and she follows him outside trying to get his attention, but that is impossible. I think this is talking about the perfect girl that a man wants to be in his arms (representing ownership and possession) and she is right in front of him, but he ignores her and passes her off as not the right one. She wants him, and he wants what she is, he just doesn't realize that she is the embodiment of what he wants. She eventually gives up at the end of the song and turns off the lights and leaves. The guy ends up losing his perfect girl that he dreams of holding in his arms all because he fails to see her in his life before she gives up trying to get his attention. I see this all as poetic, sad, and realistically lifelike.
i just watched the music video for this song and the lyrics started to make a lot more sense to me. It shows the band playing in a glass box made of two way mirrors so that no one can see out, but anyone on the outside can look in. There is a girl outside looking in at the lead singer, and he is at the glass looking blindly out, he moves around the box and she follows him outside trying to get his attention, but that is impossible. I think this is talking about the perfect girl that a man wants to be in his arms (representing ownership and possession) and she is right in front of him, but he ignores her and passes her off as not the right one. She wants him, and he wants what she is, he just doesn't realize that she is the embodiment of what he wants. She eventually gives up at the end of the song and turns off the lights and leaves. The guy ends up losing his perfect girl that he dreams of holding in his arms all because he fails to see her in his life before she gives up trying to get his attention. I see this all as poetic, sad, and realistically lifelike.