It's a song about the way so many young adults enter into casual sexual relationships. The narrator wants to do the same, but he can't bring himself to. He can see the beauty in the momentary connection, saying "It's like medicine. It's self discovery" but he also sees that the connections are temporary and he can't handle watching people leave, even if he only cared about them for a single night.
The root of this fear is that he's been left before. There's a past love he can't get over. The line "Was it integrity that kept my hands to myself or just the thought of getting too far ahead of you?" might indicate that he still keeps a vain hope that they might get back together one day.
As the song ends he wonders if he's been placing too much value on his past relationship. Maybe it wasn't as good as he remembers it. Maybe it was no more complex than the fleeting relationships he's been avoiding. He ends proclaiming that temporary love is better than no love. He asks us to open ourselves up to love so that we might eventually find "a body that makes sense" or in other words, our true love
It's a song about the way so many young adults enter into casual sexual relationships. The narrator wants to do the same, but he can't bring himself to. He can see the beauty in the momentary connection, saying "It's like medicine. It's self discovery" but he also sees that the connections are temporary and he can't handle watching people leave, even if he only cared about them for a single night.
The root of this fear is that he's been left before. There's a past love he can't get over. The line "Was it integrity that kept my hands to myself or just the thought of getting too far ahead of you?" might indicate that he still keeps a vain hope that they might get back together one day.
As the song ends he wonders if he's been placing too much value on his past relationship. Maybe it wasn't as good as he remembers it. Maybe it was no more complex than the fleeting relationships he's been avoiding. He ends proclaiming that temporary love is better than no love. He asks us to open ourselves up to love so that we might eventually find "a body that makes sense" or in other words, our true love
@krikitarmy excellent analysis!
@krikitarmy excellent analysis!