I interpret this a little bit differently than the rest of you it seems...I think it's more about a guy (or a girl, depending on listener's perspective, I guess) who really likes someone but there's just some sort of boundary. He thinks she might like him or it's possible to get her to like him. They're good friends and talk a lot, and besides actually dating or whatever, they have a mutual attraction ("everything short of I love you"). He's kind of confused about the whole thing, which the chorus represents.
I might just be seeing it this way because of a situation I'm in. I currently like a girl that's dating someone else, and we're both really good friends. I always hope, at least, that maybe she likes me or maybe I can work to get her to like me, so this song kind of represents that to me.
I interpret this a little bit differently than the rest of you it seems...I think it's more about a guy (or a girl, depending on listener's perspective, I guess) who really likes someone but there's just some sort of boundary. He thinks she might like him or it's possible to get her to like him. They're good friends and talk a lot, and besides actually dating or whatever, they have a mutual attraction ("everything short of I love you"). He's kind of confused about the whole thing, which the chorus represents.
I might just be seeing it this way because of a situation I'm in. I currently like a girl that's dating someone else, and we're both really good friends. I always hope, at least, that maybe she likes me or maybe I can work to get her to like me, so this song kind of represents that to me.