Agreed - it's definitely "I bent (or maybe bend) the tips all over." It might also be "...or when it returns" instead of "or will it return," but the smooth/rough thing sounds right to me.
I feel like this is maybe the undiscovered theme song for "(500) Days of Summer." This guy is apparently in a casual relationship with somebody who he really has feelings for: it's just "fun," but he wants her (when she, of course, doesn't want him). This has the obvious consequences - he feels like he's laboring, like their time together has passed its expiration date, like she can just "choose a different story." There's a pretty deep level of emotional damage here, what with him being confused and frustrated, but his heart won't let him leave because he needs to know that requited love exists. (At least, that's my interpretation; the lyrics are of course intentionally vague about "it," which is maybe the point - if he doesn't know what it is he wants, how can he find it?) If I understand the stuff about trees correctly, it's a metaphor for him sort of reshaping her natural desires to make him the center: trees point to stars all on their own, but he's going to bend them over so they point at something else instead. Like I said - sort of the plot of "(500) Days of Summer" in a nutshell.
Agreed - it's definitely "I bent (or maybe bend) the tips all over." It might also be "...or when it returns" instead of "or will it return," but the smooth/rough thing sounds right to me.
I feel like this is maybe the undiscovered theme song for "(500) Days of Summer." This guy is apparently in a casual relationship with somebody who he really has feelings for: it's just "fun," but he wants her (when she, of course, doesn't want him). This has the obvious consequences - he feels like he's laboring, like their time together has passed its expiration date, like she can just "choose a different story." There's a pretty deep level of emotional damage here, what with him being confused and frustrated, but his heart won't let him leave because he needs to know that requited love exists. (At least, that's my interpretation; the lyrics are of course intentionally vague about "it," which is maybe the point - if he doesn't know what it is he wants, how can he find it?) If I understand the stuff about trees correctly, it's a metaphor for him sort of reshaping her natural desires to make him the center: trees point to stars all on their own, but he's going to bend them over so they point at something else instead. Like I said - sort of the plot of "(500) Days of Summer" in a nutshell.