i agree abotu the first line meaning that he wants to have sex with her but she doesnt but to me it goes a bit deeper than that. the singer shows that he does fee somewhat bad for what he is doing in the line "quieted my conscience hoping you didnt see it, but i do i do i do"
to me that line means he knows what he is doing is wrong however as in many situations though we know the right thing to do...we often do not do it.
in the chorus he describes how much he has worked for getting "his" in the end, or in other words getting sex for all his romantic efforts because despite any reservations from beleifs he may have implied to in teh first verse are gone by the chorus as he is overcome by lust and the want...or need to have sex.
i don't agree with the previous oppinions of the second verse however. i don't beleive he is saying that he is dumb for waiting or that she is dumb for wanting him to wait, however i beleive he is saying how dumb he is because he gave into the desires that he knew he shouldnt have and she is dumb for letting him go so far with it.
which somewhat brings me back to the first verse and the line "we met in the courtyard where no one would notice, two kids contemplating all highschool has shown us". which by that line it is describing the feelings that many young teens have about sex, all that they learn from highschool is that it's perfectly fine, everyone does it why dont yousort of mentality. however christian beleifs greatly differ in this (sorry to be the one to bring the God topic in but lets not forget that Emery is christian based). the singer knows what he is doing is wrong but as with all sins it is hard to resist, and he wants it so badly that it becomes a need and no longer just a want.
now coming to the line never gonna go away. this i beleive is not so much meaning the singer anymore but instead in reference to the action or the temptation of the action. because as many people know sex can e as addicting as drugs or alchohol, and lust can take over, and make us want it more and more to satisfy ourselves, but as the line says "I'm never satisfied" because really once you become addicted to something you can never be satisfied with just once more. you will always want more of it.
as for the closing lines, "one by one side by side" this could either mean the singer will keep finding more lovers and commiting the same acts over and over again in a desperate need to feed his sexual appetite or in a more general sense applying to all people not just the main character of this song. because all people fall prey to lust, its one of the hardest to resist sins, i myself knwo that first hand as i am a christian and as many know it is against my beleifs to have premarital sex, but just because it is against my beleifs does not mean i will automatically deny that sin when it comes my way. no person is perfect, not christians not anyone, we all fall down at times.
now i do not mean to be pushing my beleifs upon anyone else here. the meanings of most songs are left up to the interpereter. so its up to you what to beleive or not beleive. one last note i'd liek to add is that the entire album is filled with songs much liek this one that accentuate human frailties and places where we just give in to every sin that comes our way. the title of the album says is all "i'm only a man" which can easily be translated to "i'm only human" that theme appears in each of their songs on this album in one way or another and this one especially, playing off of the sin of lust and desire.
i agree abotu the first line meaning that he wants to have sex with her but she doesnt but to me it goes a bit deeper than that. the singer shows that he does fee somewhat bad for what he is doing in the line "quieted my conscience hoping you didnt see it, but i do i do i do"
to me that line means he knows what he is doing is wrong however as in many situations though we know the right thing to do...we often do not do it.
in the chorus he describes how much he has worked for getting "his" in the end, or in other words getting sex for all his romantic efforts because despite any reservations from beleifs he may have implied to in teh first verse are gone by the chorus as he is overcome by lust and the want...or need to have sex.
i don't agree with the previous oppinions of the second verse however. i don't beleive he is saying that he is dumb for waiting or that she is dumb for wanting him to wait, however i beleive he is saying how dumb he is because he gave into the desires that he knew he shouldnt have and she is dumb for letting him go so far with it.
which somewhat brings me back to the first verse and the line "we met in the courtyard where no one would notice, two kids contemplating all highschool has shown us". which by that line it is describing the feelings that many young teens have about sex, all that they learn from highschool is that it's perfectly fine, everyone does it why dont yousort of mentality. however christian beleifs greatly differ in this (sorry to be the one to bring the God topic in but lets not forget that Emery is christian based). the singer knows what he is doing is wrong but as with all sins it is hard to resist, and he wants it so badly that it becomes a need and no longer just a want.
now coming to the line never gonna go away. this i beleive is not so much meaning the singer anymore but instead in reference to the action or the temptation of the action. because as many people know sex can e as addicting as drugs or alchohol, and lust can take over, and make us want it more and more to satisfy ourselves, but as the line says "I'm never satisfied" because really once you become addicted to something you can never be satisfied with just once more. you will always want more of it.
as for the closing lines, "one by one side by side" this could either mean the singer will keep finding more lovers and commiting the same acts over and over again in a desperate need to feed his sexual appetite or in a more general sense applying to all people not just the main character of this song. because all people fall prey to lust, its one of the hardest to resist sins, i myself knwo that first hand as i am a christian and as many know it is against my beleifs to have premarital sex, but just because it is against my beleifs does not mean i will automatically deny that sin when it comes my way. no person is perfect, not christians not anyone, we all fall down at times.
now i do not mean to be pushing my beleifs upon anyone else here. the meanings of most songs are left up to the interpereter. so its up to you what to beleive or not beleive. one last note i'd liek to add is that the entire album is filled with songs much liek this one that accentuate human frailties and places where we just give in to every sin that comes our way. the title of the album says is all "i'm only a man" which can easily be translated to "i'm only human" that theme appears in each of their songs on this album in one way or another and this one especially, playing off of the sin of lust and desire.