Gah, I just had a huge disagreement with some friends and I think it's led to the ending of a friendship. Then, this song comes on and it's meaning seems clear --
I take the song as, well, now.. The first verse: A guy talking of his friends and some kind of topic that came up a lot. It always ended up in arguments and petty feelings, but 'nothing was ever done about it'. So the guy, somewhat sarcastically, asks if everything would be better if they'd just shut up about it.
Second verse talks about the problem of the fighting in question, and the friends tried to convince themselves nothing was wrong. Still, nothing was done to stop it.
The chorus.. "All my mistrust - we never discussed anyone's reservations", meaning the friends wanted others to understand where they were coming from but that didn't happen. The narrator is again wondering if all would be solved if these things were never brought up.
The bridge mentions "there was a time when a crime was a crime" - sometimes his opinions of the matter were probably viewed as wrong, but he can't take it anymore. Everyone is blowing the topic up when it's nothing, but it can't be seen as nothing because for some reason it isn't that easy. That brings us to the end - Maybe they're right, but he still denies it. He's probably no better than his friends, but that's the way it goes.
Ugh, this speaks to me so much right now. I always liked Maybe You're Right before, but I didn't fully realize the meaning til now.
Gah, I just had a huge disagreement with some friends and I think it's led to the ending of a friendship. Then, this song comes on and it's meaning seems clear --
I take the song as, well, now.. The first verse: A guy talking of his friends and some kind of topic that came up a lot. It always ended up in arguments and petty feelings, but 'nothing was ever done about it'. So the guy, somewhat sarcastically, asks if everything would be better if they'd just shut up about it.
Second verse talks about the problem of the fighting in question, and the friends tried to convince themselves nothing was wrong. Still, nothing was done to stop it.
The chorus.. "All my mistrust - we never discussed anyone's reservations", meaning the friends wanted others to understand where they were coming from but that didn't happen. The narrator is again wondering if all would be solved if these things were never brought up.
The bridge mentions "there was a time when a crime was a crime" - sometimes his opinions of the matter were probably viewed as wrong, but he can't take it anymore. Everyone is blowing the topic up when it's nothing, but it can't be seen as nothing because for some reason it isn't that easy. That brings us to the end - Maybe they're right, but he still denies it. He's probably no better than his friends, but that's the way it goes.
Ugh, this speaks to me so much right now. I always liked Maybe You're Right before, but I didn't fully realize the meaning til now.