"I thought I heard the door open, oh no
Thought I heard the door open, but I only heard it close"
he was hopeful about the relationship, thinking it was full of opportunity when in fact it was a shut door (not a possible relationship or a dead end)
"I thought I heard a plane crashing
But now I think it was your passion snapping"
he is comparing her falling out of love with him with a plane crash, a rather heavy metaphor that probably speaks for itself (fast, unstoppable, explosive, deadly, tragic, catastrophic etc)
any passion she had for him dissipated all at once
"I think you saw me confronting my fear
It went up with the bottle and down with the beer"
use/abuse of alcohol to simulate courage, 'liquid courage' as the saying goes
its possible he was drunk while confronting her or using booze as a coping mechanism
he obsessively thinks about this girl to the point of being almost haunted by it. this song leaves me with this empty 'looking back on what was and what could have been' feeling. the 'you oughta stay away from here' part makes me feel like he doesn't want her to see any of his brokenness or see how haunted he is but still strongly desires for her to make things right again
"I thought I heard the door open, oh no Thought I heard the door open, but I only heard it close" he was hopeful about the relationship, thinking it was full of opportunity when in fact it was a shut door (not a possible relationship or a dead end)
"I thought I heard a plane crashing But now I think it was your passion snapping" he is comparing her falling out of love with him with a plane crash, a rather heavy metaphor that probably speaks for itself (fast, unstoppable, explosive, deadly, tragic, catastrophic etc) any passion she had for him dissipated all at once
"I think you saw me confronting my fear It went up with the bottle and down with the beer" use/abuse of alcohol to simulate courage, 'liquid courage' as the saying goes its possible he was drunk while confronting her or using booze as a coping mechanism
he obsessively thinks about this girl to the point of being almost haunted by it. this song leaves me with this empty 'looking back on what was and what could have been' feeling. the 'you oughta stay away from here' part makes me feel like he doesn't want her to see any of his brokenness or see how haunted he is but still strongly desires for her to make things right again