When I first heard the song, I thought it was a love song. Having read the lyrics, I'm not sure anymore.
Since the lyrics are "[l]ying to you is a river of sin," and not lying to you would be a river of sin, it appears that he's lying to her. And he's lying when she's opening her heart to him. "Let them spew, a fall from grace would do us good today..." The fall from grace--the river of sin of his lies in pretending to share emotions together--would make both of them feel better today than the truth. He'll feign the emotion she needs ("we can love or cry"), and by declaring his love, he takes her up into a delusional happiness.
They're "late" in different ways. For her, she's late in the pregnancy sense. For him, he's late in taking steps to prevent it. Now that they're going to have a baby together, they're "older," i.e., adults. And he's promising her the wedding that of the fairytale kind that some girls dream of when they're young. Which I think they still are age-wise.
So I agree with the comment above that he's expressing his undying love to his partner. I just don't think he actually feels it.
In my own defense, I'm happily in a relationship, and not in a post-breakup-there's-no-such-thing-as-love funk. I just think the music's upbeat lovesong feeling doesn't match the somewhat depressing lyrics. (Band of Horses' song "Funeral" is another example of this kind of intentional mismatch.)
When I first heard the song, I thought it was a love song. Having read the lyrics, I'm not sure anymore.
Since the lyrics are "[l]ying to you is a river of sin," and not lying to you would be a river of sin, it appears that he's lying to her. And he's lying when she's opening her heart to him. "Let them spew, a fall from grace would do us good today..." The fall from grace--the river of sin of his lies in pretending to share emotions together--would make both of them feel better today than the truth. He'll feign the emotion she needs ("we can love or cry"), and by declaring his love, he takes her up into a delusional happiness.
They're "late" in different ways. For her, she's late in the pregnancy sense. For him, he's late in taking steps to prevent it. Now that they're going to have a baby together, they're "older," i.e., adults. And he's promising her the wedding that of the fairytale kind that some girls dream of when they're young. Which I think they still are age-wise.
So I agree with the comment above that he's expressing his undying love to his partner. I just don't think he actually feels it.
In my own defense, I'm happily in a relationship, and not in a post-breakup-there's-no-such-thing-as-love funk. I just think the music's upbeat lovesong feeling doesn't match the somewhat depressing lyrics. (Band of Horses' song "Funeral" is another example of this kind of intentional mismatch.)