Lyric discussion by cwhite52 

Cover art for Speak lyrics by Nickel Creek

It's a song as said earlier about a guy who is not socially good at initiating conversations, so he's in a battle, showing his frustration trying to be smooth talking to this girl, it's such a terrifying thing that he's losing sleep over it, but it shouldn't be that big of a deal, cause he barely knows her and does not love her. He sees that she's going to be tough to connect with, but says he vows to continue the journey to get her to open up to him, social awkwardness or not.

She then chimes in on the song stating she doesn't see how love is as complicated as he's making it, stating it's just supposd to be her and the guy she's to be with, in the sunset, romanticizing it and oversimplifying, taking away her responsibility to respond back in talking to him when he approaches her. And reluctantly states at the end, she'll concede and try to speak up.

He then shows the rest of his efforts, sitting next to her to try to talk to her but was greeted with complete rejection as she did not respond to him much at all still, making him feel completely rejected. So he responds by wrapping himself around her for fear that he will lose her. The last line he gives is stating he won't accept failure (failure will not procede), but he'll continue to drink of it in other words keep feeling rejected.

She responds as you would expect stating this is not what she's looking for, but instead of telling him that, she just coldly continues to not speak to him and giving him the cold shoulder.

To me, it's high school relationships, guys feelings towards it versus girls.