Very simple, but executed excellently, song about an on and off relationship that doesn’t ever fully stop.
“You knew in five minutes, / but I knew in a sentence.”
I agree with saying that this refers to the five-minutes theory. Upon meeting, they were both very attracted to each other.
“So why do we go through all of this again? / Your eyes are fluttering, such pretty wings, / a moth, flying into the same old flame again. / It never ends.”
Clearly, about a relationship that keeps going on and off. He questions why they continue doing, reiterates on her beauty (that moth eyelash is a lovely image), and recognizes that they are seemingly addicted to each other despite the danger.
“It's not like I dropped the bomb / on my conscience, mom.”
I believe this is him confirming that he knows what he’s doing, knows that the continued relationship is damaging. He knows. It doesn’t stop him.
“It takes fighting day and night / to make such a good thing die.”
I love how this slightly has a double-meaning. Fighting, as in arguing, and then fighting as in trying hard to make it stop working. Here he recognizes that is is a good thing, they are a good couple, but it’s the fighting (in either sense) that ruins things.
“Out, everyone out. I give too much shit at home / in my heart and mind, it gets me every time.
“Out, everyone out” is squalled with such emotion. I imagine someone just getting fed up, feeling like he’s trying so hard, giving himself to this relationship (home means perhaps a marriage?) and feels like he is getting nothing in return.
“So why do we go through all this shit again? / Your eyes are fluttering, such pretty wings, / a moth flying into me, the same old flame again. / It never ends.”
The repetition is wonderful in that it reinforces the idea of never ending. The addition of “shit” again shows much anger, the heightened vocals. It all adds so much emotion. And it never ends.
Very simple, but executed excellently, song about an on and off relationship that doesn’t ever fully stop.
“You knew in five minutes, / but I knew in a sentence.”
I agree with saying that this refers to the five-minutes theory. Upon meeting, they were both very attracted to each other.
“So why do we go through all of this again? / Your eyes are fluttering, such pretty wings, / a moth, flying into the same old flame again. / It never ends.”
Clearly, about a relationship that keeps going on and off. He questions why they continue doing, reiterates on her beauty (that moth eyelash is a lovely image), and recognizes that they are seemingly addicted to each other despite the danger.
“It's not like I dropped the bomb / on my conscience, mom.”
I believe this is him confirming that he knows what he’s doing, knows that the continued relationship is damaging. He knows. It doesn’t stop him.
“It takes fighting day and night / to make such a good thing die.”
I love how this slightly has a double-meaning. Fighting, as in arguing, and then fighting as in trying hard to make it stop working. Here he recognizes that is is a good thing, they are a good couple, but it’s the fighting (in either sense) that ruins things.
“Out, everyone out. I give too much shit at home / in my heart and mind, it gets me every time.
“Out, everyone out” is squalled with such emotion. I imagine someone just getting fed up, feeling like he’s trying so hard, giving himself to this relationship (home means perhaps a marriage?) and feels like he is getting nothing in return.
“So why do we go through all this shit again? / Your eyes are fluttering, such pretty wings, / a moth flying into me, the same old flame again. / It never ends.”
The repetition is wonderful in that it reinforces the idea of never ending. The addition of “shit” again shows much anger, the heightened vocals. It all adds so much emotion. And it never ends.