Things Fall Apart Lyrics

Lyric discussion by unclebengi 

Cover art for Things Fall Apart lyrics by Built to Spill

"stay out of my nightmares stay out of my dreams you're not even welcome in my memories when things are alright and I want what I got it' only momentarily thought"

In this part I think he's talking about death...How he doesn't want to even think about memories of others deaths, let alone his own. And how everything is always going great and the thoughts resurface, even if just for a moment.

"we've all seen enough now it's time to decide the meekness of love or the power of pride it doesn't matter if you're good or smart goddamn it things fall apart"

Saying we actually have a choice in life, we can choose to love, or we can selfishly choose our own pride. Everyone dies anyway, so why choose pride?

"Let's go for a walk yeah let's go for a drive don't know how to say thanks for being alive let's go for a lifetime let's go for a fling don't know how to say anything"

I love the line "don't know how to say thanks for being alive". One of my favorite lines in any song.

interestingly, this made me think how sometimes it really does sort of seem that these are the only two options: love or pride.