at a glance, the song is about two friends who are obliviously more than friends:
"maybe its something you misplaced"
she has "misplaced" her love, or in other words cannot develop feelings for any other guy.
"maybe i'll see it in your face,
could you have left it in your coat?
could you have left it in your coat?"
he questions that he might see her feelings for him in the way that she acts, because he has no clue as to where her love could be and why she cannot feel anything for anybody. he thinks the answer is right in front of her, maybe its just figuratively forgotten in her "coat"
"Maybe it's somewhere in a drawer
Sometimes those things can get ignored
I hadn't thought about it much
I hadn't thought about it much"
he still thinks the answer is right in front of her, and he is starting to see that he and the girl have a stronger bond than he had thought, because he "hadn't thought about it much," with "it" being the possbility of the two of them as a couple
"But if your love returns to me
If what's not, turns out to be
Oh, you don't know
No, you don't know"
here he actually starts to consider the possiblity that he is meant for her, that they just might be great as a couple, but they just can't be sure, they can't know
"I guess it started to make sense
We were just sitting on the fence
There wasn't writing on the wall
There wasn't anything at all"
this is more elaboration on the realization of their potential as a couple, and talk about how they just spent time togehter without considering the possbility because there wasn't any apparent signs pointing to them being together
Thats just my initial interpretation, feel free to point out fallacies, please.
at a glance, the song is about two friends who are obliviously more than friends:
"maybe its something you misplaced"
she has "misplaced" her love, or in other words cannot develop feelings for any other guy.
"maybe i'll see it in your face, could you have left it in your coat? could you have left it in your coat?"
he questions that he might see her feelings for him in the way that she acts, because he has no clue as to where her love could be and why she cannot feel anything for anybody. he thinks the answer is right in front of her, maybe its just figuratively forgotten in her "coat"
"Maybe it's somewhere in a drawer Sometimes those things can get ignored I hadn't thought about it much I hadn't thought about it much"
he still thinks the answer is right in front of her, and he is starting to see that he and the girl have a stronger bond than he had thought, because he "hadn't thought about it much," with "it" being the possbility of the two of them as a couple
"But if your love returns to me If what's not, turns out to be Oh, you don't know No, you don't know"
here he actually starts to consider the possiblity that he is meant for her, that they just might be great as a couple, but they just can't be sure, they can't know
"I guess it started to make sense We were just sitting on the fence There wasn't writing on the wall There wasn't anything at all"
this is more elaboration on the realization of their potential as a couple, and talk about how they just spent time togehter without considering the possbility because there wasn't any apparent signs pointing to them being together
Thats just my initial interpretation, feel free to point out fallacies, please.