Lyric discussion by plain_jane 

Cover art for If She Wants Me lyrics by Belle & Sebastian

My favorite part of this song is "I climbed the hill, I wanted to look down on you / But all I saw was twenty miles of wilderness so I went home." To me, it means that you keep looking for something in a person and cannot find it, perhaps because they don't have it in the first place or maybe they don't want to show it to you. But then at some point it doesn't matter anymore and you just give up.

Sometimes the forest was never really there. It was all a figment of ones wishful imagination. And once you come to terms with the lie, you learn to live again.

Voted up. My favorite part too. but I don't interpret it as really a missing quality in somebody as much as not being let in enough to find it. or maybe they are not holding you back, and there's no specific quality, but there's too much thick to get through to really figure them out. but really it's more your fault than theirs for not knowing where to start, and then you.. give up