Is it just me or does it sound like a girl is getting broken up with? "You didn't say the words I would have said" sounds like the girl is saying that they didn't get told what they wanted to hear ("I love you", "I want us to stay together", something along those lines), but she knows that her lover couldn't help the "doubt" that filled their head, or falling out love with her, because you can't hate someone because their feelings change. Their relationship was just an "ordinary try". You can't help things like that, it's a part of life: "We learn to live, we live to die." It's kind of like the girl is saying this to reassure herself that things will be okay. And then it goes back to the girl talking about her response to their break-up, her face in a forced smile with nothing to reply with. Then the next stanza is a little confusing, but it kind of sounds like she's kind of talking to herself like, "When you wake up alone, just keep singing alone. It will be okay." So then it sounds like she's talking more to herself saying, "I'm not what you write in your books, and no I'm nothing like a song," because she's convincing herself, "I'm not perfect. I'm not the sweet perfect love image you've always had in your head." Then the whole, "And will you answer me / I alread know / I asked you an answer / but I already know / And can you come back home / You already know / You don't ask / 'Cause you already know" sounds like the girl being so desperate for him to be her's again and begging ... but already knowing the rejection she'll have to face, so sure of herself. And the lover knows he can come back home,, if he ever chooses to. He'll never have to ask, because she'll always be waiting ...
As for what other things I didn't mention I'm not really sure ... I would love to know what people think of the "It's an unfamiliar song / You said you'd like to sing along ... etc" part. There's a part of that stanza that I really like though: "And when I wake up freezing, but know half believing, it was this I feared." Probably just because I can relate to it. It's like, ever since the break-up, I go to sleep heartbroken, hoping that everything will change when I wake up. Then I wake up, half-denial and half-believing. It's like, "This can't be really happening ... things were never supposed to fall apart. But they did. Shit." Haha. Yeah ...
Is it just me or does it sound like a girl is getting broken up with? "You didn't say the words I would have said" sounds like the girl is saying that they didn't get told what they wanted to hear ("I love you", "I want us to stay together", something along those lines), but she knows that her lover couldn't help the "doubt" that filled their head, or falling out love with her, because you can't hate someone because their feelings change. Their relationship was just an "ordinary try". You can't help things like that, it's a part of life: "We learn to live, we live to die." It's kind of like the girl is saying this to reassure herself that things will be okay. And then it goes back to the girl talking about her response to their break-up, her face in a forced smile with nothing to reply with. Then the next stanza is a little confusing, but it kind of sounds like she's kind of talking to herself like, "When you wake up alone, just keep singing alone. It will be okay." So then it sounds like she's talking more to herself saying, "I'm not what you write in your books, and no I'm nothing like a song," because she's convincing herself, "I'm not perfect. I'm not the sweet perfect love image you've always had in your head." Then the whole, "And will you answer me / I alread know / I asked you an answer / but I already know / And can you come back home / You already know / You don't ask / 'Cause you already know" sounds like the girl being so desperate for him to be her's again and begging ... but already knowing the rejection she'll have to face, so sure of herself. And the lover knows he can come back home,, if he ever chooses to. He'll never have to ask, because she'll always be waiting ...
As for what other things I didn't mention I'm not really sure ... I would love to know what people think of the "It's an unfamiliar song / You said you'd like to sing along ... etc" part. There's a part of that stanza that I really like though: "And when I wake up freezing, but know half believing, it was this I feared." Probably just because I can relate to it. It's like, ever since the break-up, I go to sleep heartbroken, hoping that everything will change when I wake up. Then I wake up, half-denial and half-believing. It's like, "This can't be really happening ... things were never supposed to fall apart. But they did. Shit." Haha. Yeah ...