I think this song is someone explaining fighting with their girlfriend. He is saying, I dont bow out or give in because I think your right but because I dont want to fight. Some lines suggest how quickly things change after a fight, how quickly they go back to normal, such as: "Its all so subway-grim and then its gone".
The end of the song describes how the couple go to bed angry with each other; "We lay down seething and smell our pillows burn and drift off to a place where youd think wed learn". This also describes how they dream of being happy all the time like they probably once were, the singer is saying you would think wed stop fighting when we dream about happy times but we dont.
I think this song is someone explaining fighting with their girlfriend. He is saying, I don
t bow out or give in because I think your right but because I dont want to fight. Some lines suggest how quickly things change after a fight, how quickly they go back to normal, such as: "Its all so subway-grim and then its gone".The end of the song describes how the couple go to bed angry with each other; "We lay down seething and smell our pillows burn and drift off to a place where you
d think wed learn". This also describes how they dream of being happy all the time like they probably once were, the singer is saying you would think wed stop fighting when we dream about happy times but we dont.