HoHum Lyrics

Lyric discussion by alovelyfadeout 

Cover art for HoHum lyrics by Pinback

I interpret it as someone who has some kind of insecurity maybe because of a past experience that they can't seem to forget or live down that keeps coming back up in the present. the lines:

no one's gonna take the pair of scissors stuck in my arm from you no one's gonna try to repair the messages that you pushed me to

makes me think this--it's something that the person has to deal with because no one's gonna fix it for them and no one can really, it's their own problem.

Also, the part "you forget I'm awake/ I forget I'm awake" suggests too that this person who is having the conflict is walking around like he/she is dreaming or dead, and the person thinks they are too--again the whole thing about there being something wrong that the person has to fix within their self.

sidenote: the "I wanna breathe in blue" lines are the best. I imagine the air from my breath literally being blue (though that's probably not what it's about) and that would be awesome!