Few songs capture the simple resentment after a relationship's end as this song does. Will Sheff perfectly describes every frustration and emotion that goes into that traumatic times -- the possibility of becoming friends, hoping her new boyfriend won't work out, on one ending wanting to be the bigger man but still hoping she'll be "hurt and have the hardest of landings". He even plans to hurt others emotionally such as the ‘blonde in the bleacher’. He’s grown numb and jaded. But at the end of the day, he’s resigned to his own depression and loneliness — “I don’t want the earth new.”
I highly recommend “All My Little Words” by the Magnetic Fields if you like this song, it captures a similar sentiment.
Few songs capture the simple resentment after a relationship's end as this song does. Will Sheff perfectly describes every frustration and emotion that goes into that traumatic times -- the possibility of becoming friends, hoping her new boyfriend won't work out, on one ending wanting to be the bigger man but still hoping she'll be "hurt and have the hardest of landings". He even plans to hurt others emotionally such as the ‘blonde in the bleacher’. He’s grown numb and jaded. But at the end of the day, he’s resigned to his own depression and loneliness — “I don’t want the earth new.”
I highly recommend “All My Little Words” by the Magnetic Fields if you like this song, it captures a similar sentiment.