I will attempt to explain this song to you all, becuase this song directly applies to me right now. this song, even though she may be talking to her record label, it totally has a double meaning. shes talking to a boy, who they could potentially be in a good relationship, but she's not gonna do everything he wants her to do, to make the relationship work. he's gotta give her a reason to love him.
"Head under water
and they tell me to breathe easy for a while
the breathing gets harder, even i know that"
meaning: you're no help. my heads underwater, and you tell me to breathe easy...thanks. you can't always take the easy road.
"You made room for me but it’s too soon to see
if I’m happy in your hands
I’m unusually hard to hold on to"
meaning: it started too soon
Blank stares at blank pages
no easy way to say this
you mean well, but you make this hard on me
meaning: how can I tell you? you mean well i know, but this isn't working for me.
"I'm not gonna write you a love song
'cause you asked for it
'cause you need one, you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'cause you tell me it's
make or breaking this
if you’re on your way
I'm not gonna write you to stay"
meaning: I'm not gonna do what you want me to, just so you'll be with me. Even if he plans on leaving... its not worth it to fight.
"If all you have is leaving I’m gonna need a better reason to write you a love song today"
meaning: he hasn't given her any reason to love him..or really fight for him.
"I learned the hard way
that they all say things you want to hear
and my heavy heart sinks deep down under you
and your twisted words, your help just hurts
you are not what i thought you were
hello to high and dry"
meaning: guys tell you want you want to hear. and you get caught up in them telling you what they want you to be. insisting that they are "helping" you. turns out, she wised up. and now she's just kind of like..bummed out. she thought he was more than he is.
"Convinced me to please you
made me think that I need this too
I’m trying to let you hear me as I am"
meaning: for a while, she did all the bs..whatever he wanted...but now he needs to listen.
"Promise me that you'll leave the light on
to help me see with daylight, my guide, gone
'cause I believe there's a way you can love me because I say"
meaning: she's saying, she thinks that it could work, she thinks that they can love each other. that the relationship is possible.
"I’m not gonna write you to stay
if your heart is nowhere in it
I don’t want it for a minute
Babe, I’ll walk the seven seas when i believe that there's a reason to
write you a love song today"
meaning: She's made up in her mind, shes strong enough, to not deal with it anymore. that ultimatum point (where I am right now) and if he would just stop with the bs. admit that he loves her..and act like it. that she would do anything...maybe even write him that love song...
I will attempt to explain this song to you all, becuase this song directly applies to me right now. this song, even though she may be talking to her record label, it totally has a double meaning. shes talking to a boy, who they could potentially be in a good relationship, but she's not gonna do everything he wants her to do, to make the relationship work. he's gotta give her a reason to love him.
"Head under water and they tell me to breathe easy for a while the breathing gets harder, even i know that"
meaning: you're no help. my heads underwater, and you tell me to breathe easy...thanks. you can't always take the easy road.
"You made room for me but it’s too soon to see if I’m happy in your hands I’m unusually hard to hold on to" meaning: it started too soon
Blank stares at blank pages no easy way to say this you mean well, but you make this hard on me meaning: how can I tell you? you mean well i know, but this isn't working for me.
"I'm not gonna write you a love song 'cause you asked for it 'cause you need one, you see I'm not gonna write you a love song 'cause you tell me it's make or breaking this if you’re on your way I'm not gonna write you to stay" meaning: I'm not gonna do what you want me to, just so you'll be with me. Even if he plans on leaving... its not worth it to fight.
"If all you have is leaving I’m gonna need a better reason to write you a love song today" meaning: he hasn't given her any reason to love him..or really fight for him.
"I learned the hard way that they all say things you want to hear and my heavy heart sinks deep down under you and your twisted words, your help just hurts you are not what i thought you were hello to high and dry" meaning: guys tell you want you want to hear. and you get caught up in them telling you what they want you to be. insisting that they are "helping" you. turns out, she wised up. and now she's just kind of like..bummed out. she thought he was more than he is.
"Convinced me to please you made me think that I need this too I’m trying to let you hear me as I am" meaning: for a while, she did all the bs..whatever he wanted...but now he needs to listen.
"Promise me that you'll leave the light on to help me see with daylight, my guide, gone 'cause I believe there's a way you can love me because I say" meaning: she's saying, she thinks that it could work, she thinks that they can love each other. that the relationship is possible.
"I’m not gonna write you to stay if your heart is nowhere in it I don’t want it for a minute Babe, I’ll walk the seven seas when i believe that there's a reason to write you a love song today" meaning: She's made up in her mind, shes strong enough, to not deal with it anymore. that ultimatum point (where I am right now) and if he would just stop with the bs. admit that he loves her..and act like it. that she would do anything...maybe even write him that love song...