With this song, I picture a person in the middle of field in the middle of no where laying on the hood of their car all alone staring up at the stars on a cold and clear February night. They are reflecting on a close friendship with someone over time where they developed romantic feelings for the other person that were not reciprocated:
"hanging on
here until I'm gone
I'm right where I belong
just hanging on
even know I watched you come and go
how was I to know
you'd steal the show?"
In this verse what is being said is "we have been good friends forever, I have developed feelings beyond just friendship".
"one day I'll have enough to gamble
I'll wait to hear your final call
and bet it all"
Here he is waiting to build up enough courage to tell her how he feels and see if she feels the same way. Bet is all is a reference to the value of their friendship and his feelings. He could ruin both by telling her.
"I'm hanging on
here until I'm gone
right where I belong
just hanging on
even know I pass this time alone
somewhere so unknown
it heals the soul"
This really paints a picture of someone just staring into the sky reflecting on their feelings. "Hanging on" represents time passing, day by day, week by week, month by month.
"you ask for walls
I'll build them higher
we'll lie in the shadows of them all
I'd stand but they're much to tall
and I fall"
Here walls represent the boundaries of friendship. He builds these walls higher as he enjoys their friendship and spending time with her, but he has built the walls so tall he will never be able to get over them to something more than friendship, so he gives up and and comes to accept that friendship is the only thing this relationship will ever be.
"February stars
Floating in the dark
Temporary scars
February stars..."
The final words and instrumentals of this song really represent the bittersweet feelings one can have when they come to a moment of truth. In this case it is that their friendship will always be something special, but it will only be a friendship. Now, all alone in a field in the middle of no where, a man lays staring at the stars and the blackness of space and comes to terms with his feelings.
With this song, I picture a person in the middle of field in the middle of no where laying on the hood of their car all alone staring up at the stars on a cold and clear February night. They are reflecting on a close friendship with someone over time where they developed romantic feelings for the other person that were not reciprocated:
"hanging on here until I'm gone I'm right where I belong just hanging on even know I watched you come and go how was I to know you'd steal the show?"
In this verse what is being said is "we have been good friends forever, I have developed feelings beyond just friendship".
"one day I'll have enough to gamble I'll wait to hear your final call and bet it all"
Here he is waiting to build up enough courage to tell her how he feels and see if she feels the same way. Bet is all is a reference to the value of their friendship and his feelings. He could ruin both by telling her.
"I'm hanging on here until I'm gone right where I belong just hanging on even know I pass this time alone somewhere so unknown it heals the soul"
This really paints a picture of someone just staring into the sky reflecting on their feelings. "Hanging on" represents time passing, day by day, week by week, month by month.
"you ask for walls I'll build them higher we'll lie in the shadows of them all I'd stand but they're much to tall and I fall"
Here walls represent the boundaries of friendship. He builds these walls higher as he enjoys their friendship and spending time with her, but he has built the walls so tall he will never be able to get over them to something more than friendship, so he gives up and and comes to accept that friendship is the only thing this relationship will ever be.
"February stars Floating in the dark Temporary scars February stars..."
The final words and instrumentals of this song really represent the bittersweet feelings one can have when they come to a moment of truth. In this case it is that their friendship will always be something special, but it will only be a friendship. Now, all alone in a field in the middle of no where, a man lays staring at the stars and the blackness of space and comes to terms with his feelings.
@BuGaLoU well explained
@BuGaLoU well explained