For me, this fits perfectly with Blue Piccadilly, and I love the fact that they merged the two songs into one track on the album.
Blue Piccadilly is about a relationship that is coming to an end - the first verses indicate that perhaps they were in it for the wrong reasons, and later in the song comes the line 'Ain't it a shame there's another' - possibly another reason for the break up.
Perhaps I'm using a little poetic licence here, but I feel that he is saying that there is already a distance between them; illustrated in the line 'twelve stops and home'. It is unclear whether 'home' refers to the home that they share, or a new home that he has had to make for himself.
....then at the end of the song, there is a period of silence, the sound of footsteps returning, and then this song.
I think that this song is about confusion. Whilst Blue Piccadilly indicated that they may not have been compatible, by the time he wrote this song, he seems to have changed his mind;
'Everyone knows it
Can you deny it
I was the only one for you
Everyone knows it
Cause we couldn't hide it'
Now he is saying that it was obvious to everyone that they were supposed to be together.
I think that the line, 'I wonder who you've seen and I hope that hes just a friend' refers to the 'another' mentioned in Blue Piccadilly.
As well as confusion about why the relationship had to end, and who the other person is, I think this song is about pain and regret
'My love was stronger than you think
Much stronger now I've had a drink'
One of those memories that is so painful that you automatically stop yourself from going back over it in your head, so that you only really think about in when you've been drinking and have let down your guard.
Perhaps this song is the equivalent of that 'drunken phone call' so many of us have made...?!
I could be totally wrong.... but I'd LIKE to think that's what it means. =)
For me, this fits perfectly with Blue Piccadilly, and I love the fact that they merged the two songs into one track on the album.
Blue Piccadilly is about a relationship that is coming to an end - the first verses indicate that perhaps they were in it for the wrong reasons, and later in the song comes the line 'Ain't it a shame there's another' - possibly another reason for the break up. Perhaps I'm using a little poetic licence here, but I feel that he is saying that there is already a distance between them; illustrated in the line 'twelve stops and home'. It is unclear whether 'home' refers to the home that they share, or a new home that he has had to make for himself.
....then at the end of the song, there is a period of silence, the sound of footsteps returning, and then this song.
I think that this song is about confusion. Whilst Blue Piccadilly indicated that they may not have been compatible, by the time he wrote this song, he seems to have changed his mind; 'Everyone knows it Can you deny it I was the only one for you Everyone knows it Cause we couldn't hide it' Now he is saying that it was obvious to everyone that they were supposed to be together.
I think that the line, 'I wonder who you've seen and I hope that hes just a friend' refers to the 'another' mentioned in Blue Piccadilly.
As well as confusion about why the relationship had to end, and who the other person is, I think this song is about pain and regret 'My love was stronger than you think Much stronger now I've had a drink' One of those memories that is so painful that you automatically stop yourself from going back over it in your head, so that you only really think about in when you've been drinking and have let down your guard. Perhaps this song is the equivalent of that 'drunken phone call' so many of us have made...?!
I could be totally wrong.... but I'd LIKE to think that's what it means. =)