Sunset, 1989 DEMO

so i just joined this site to put what i think this song means.

i personally think that it's about friends.

"You told me everything in your defense and never understood the consequence"

i think it has something to do with a friend maybe doing something bad at one point and trying to justify the decision that they made. they didn't realize that what they were doing was going to cost them a friendship in the end.

"I won't console, when you have control, every time's the last time, but I know you'll go and do it again. yeah, you'll do it again."

how they say "oh it'll be the last time i do it i promise" but they know that the friend is just going to go and make the same mistake again. because things don't really just change in the drop of a hat.

"There was a halo resting above your head but it slid down around your neck and I bet you thought I'd never find out cuz you think you're so clever."

this might have something to do with how a friend was "acting" like being someone that they aren't or being two different people at the same time. and how they thought the other friend wouldn't find out about it but the one who's pretending isn't hiding it as well as they think they are.

"So, now we're all grown up and settled down and you're the only one thats livin' in this ghost town try to keep in touch; at least pretend. I know we'll always be fair-weather friends, 'til the end"

and last but not least, this is probably one of my favorite parts of the whole song. i think it's talking about maybe this one friend is living in the past of something the two of them used to have but they don't anymore because of all that's happened. and the one will keep holding onto it. and they can pretend that everything's ok even though it's really not. the "fair-weather friend" thing is like a friend how just comes around when the good things are happening to you. so in other words, it's not a real friend at all.

i mean that's my take on the song. i can be completely wrong, but that's what it means to me.