Lyric discussion by jonjon5124 

Cover art for Go With The Flow lyrics by Queens of the Stone Age

It’s about a guy who is in love with a lady that has been emotionally damaged in the past and now she dates people for a short while. When things start to get more serious in the relationship, she’s out the door and into another relationship leaving behind a broken heart. She leaves emotionlessly and he says he will go with the flow and let her leave without a fighting for her but just don’t say what they had wasn’t special. The lines “She said I’ll throw myself away, There just photos after all ,I can’t make you hang around, I can’t wash you off my skin, Outside the frame, is what we’re leaving out” is referencing when she takes him out sight, he no longer exist to her but he still has feelings for her and they don’t wash away. What’s outside of those pictures is what she’s forgetting.

The second verse makes me wonder if they are both the victims of emotionally damaged relationships. The first meaning. The second set of lines is the game she is playing. “It’s so safe to play along, Little soldiers in a row, Falling in and out of love, Something sweet to throw away” It describes her game. Little soldiers are the future guys who will date her just to have the same thing happen. “I want something good to die for, To make it beautiful to live” He wants a real relationship with someone with reciprocating feelings.

“I want a new mistake, to lose is more than to hesitate” Interesting twist on words here but I believe he want another relationship even if he loses the next one also. To lose love is better than to hesitate and not have love. The second meaning could also mean he may be as damaged and he always finds women like this and he reacts the same way in every relationship. Thinking of it this way could also change the second verse of lines saying it’s basically his game and he constantly finds women who are emotionally unavailable. The soldiers are the women he will date just to be constantly rejected.
Either way, it’s about emotionally damaged people who go through fucked up relationships. Great rock song with an awesome vid.

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