There Is No Mathematics To Love And Loss Lyrics

Lyric discussion by lightmastertech 

Cover art for There Is No Mathematics To Love And Loss lyrics by Anberlin

My take on the chorus is this:

"Have you ever heard a word?"

  • He's asking if she's heard anything that he's said, and he's probably asked her to reconsider the divorce/break-up.

"(Rather be lonely in love, than alive with you and dead)"

  • He's saying that out of the three choices, he'd rather deny that the divorce/break-up ever happened, as opposed to being alive and living in the real world or being dead.

"Have you ever heard a word?"

  • Same as above

"Hear me out this time (hear me out this time)"

  • He's saying that he's asked her to reconsider the divorce/break-up and he wants her to at least listen and hear him out.
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