The song is about a guy and a girl who are just friends - but the guy wants more. He knows that she thinks it will never happen and that they are better as friends. Whenever he is with her he "has never been so alive" because he is able to spend time with her but also he "has never been so alone" because he can't be intimate with her, a feeling that is killing him.
I assume they both live in NYC. She loves it but he hates it. The only reason he still stays there is because he thinks there is still a chance they will end up together.
"And this is our last time We'll be friends again" most likely means that he puts it all out on the line. He tells her how he feels, and she turns him down (as he expected she would).
The last few verses is about him getting over her and moving on with his life.
@levere19 actually he’s clearly despondent at the end of the song. He paddles out in the water too deep. It’s late. The sun is going down in his eyes, which is a metaphor similar to the wave that’s coming to take him home. He commits suicide by drowning. It’s implied by both those lines, and just the general mood of the song as well.
@levere19 actually he’s clearly despondent at the end of the song. He paddles out in the water too deep. It’s late. The sun is going down in his eyes, which is a metaphor similar to the wave that’s coming to take him home. He commits suicide by drowning. It’s implied by both those lines, and just the general mood of the song as well.
The song is about a guy and a girl who are just friends - but the guy wants more. He knows that she thinks it will never happen and that they are better as friends. Whenever he is with her he "has never been so alive" because he is able to spend time with her but also he "has never been so alone" because he can't be intimate with her, a feeling that is killing him.
I assume they both live in NYC. She loves it but he hates it. The only reason he still stays there is because he thinks there is still a chance they will end up together.
"And this is our last time We'll be friends again" most likely means that he puts it all out on the line. He tells her how he feels, and she turns him down (as he expected she would).
The last few verses is about him getting over her and moving on with his life.
@levere19 actually he’s clearly despondent at the end of the song. He paddles out in the water too deep. It’s late. The sun is going down in his eyes, which is a metaphor similar to the wave that’s coming to take him home. He commits suicide by drowning. It’s implied by both those lines, and just the general mood of the song as well.
@levere19 actually he’s clearly despondent at the end of the song. He paddles out in the water too deep. It’s late. The sun is going down in his eyes, which is a metaphor similar to the wave that’s coming to take him home. He commits suicide by drowning. It’s implied by both those lines, and just the general mood of the song as well.
@levere19 Good. Better to never have loved at all.
@levere19 Good. Better to never have loved at all.