This song had to grow on me, but now that it has a like it a lot.
I agree with others- it's about not wanting to be the other half to someone else's whole. When I listen to the song I get the image of a slightly obsessive ex boyfriend who plays the "I can't live without you/you're my everything" card - "but you were awful adament that if I didn't love you then you have just one alternative". To me this song is a response to that sort of behaviour - that she can only be herself, and has no time for the concept of only being seen as one half of "you & me". It's the realisation that it's this very sort of thinking that drives a person crazy, and if you enter into it you "lose your voice completely".
This song had to grow on me, but now that it has a like it a lot.
I agree with others- it's about not wanting to be the other half to someone else's whole. When I listen to the song I get the image of a slightly obsessive ex boyfriend who plays the "I can't live without you/you're my everything" card - "but you were awful adament that if I didn't love you then you have just one alternative". To me this song is a response to that sort of behaviour - that she can only be herself, and has no time for the concept of only being seen as one half of "you & me". It's the realisation that it's this very sort of thinking that drives a person crazy, and if you enter into it you "lose your voice completely".