Here's the story: he knew this girl when they were kids, and kind of had a crush on her when they were teenagers but they're still just friends. One day they go to the beach, alone or with some other friends, it doesn't matter. There are those signs that say it's dangerous to go in the water, because there are rip tides or something. But she's the typical teenage girl trying to impress someone, and she says she'll be fine and goes in anyway. I feel like this song is set a year or two afterwards, when he's remembering her and what happened.
"I wish I could eat the salt off of your lost faded lips"
Her lips are salty because she drowned in the ocean, and lost and faded because she'd been gone for so long. I would probably interpret it as saying he wishes he could have her back and got the chance to kiss her.
"We can cap the old times, make playing only logical harm
We can cap the old lines, make playing that nothing else will change"
Cap, sort of like capture, bring things back to when she was alive. He wants to make playing (like they were playing on the beach before she died) only "logical harm" instead of the physical harm it actually brought to her.
He's just being nostalgic about their friendship now that she's gone and he's wishing nothing had changed.
"Well she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad"
This is afterwards when everyone is grieving, and they're all angry and saying that "couldn't she read the signs?!" that said not to go in the water because it was dangerous. He's telling them all that yeah, she read it, she was just too "bad" to care and did it anyway.
"But it's different now that I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this face again
You'll go stabbing yourself in the neck"
He's probably not actually that old, but he's like a young adult (college age or so, they're always poor) and feels depressed, like he's older than he is. He's probably standing on the beach looking back, thinking about how he'll never see her again and how she really did it to herself (not literally stabbing herself in the neck, but it has the same effect -- she's dead now).
The rest of the song is just his memories of her from when she was still alive.
"It's in the way that she poses, it's in the things that she puts in my hair
Her stories are boring and stuff, she's always calling my bluff
She puts the, she puts the weights in to my little heart and she gets in my room and she takes it apart"
is probably her memories of her when they were in elementary school. They had kind of a love/hate relationship back then. She puts weight into his heart because she's always made him feel stronger emotions than anyone else can.
"It's in the way that she walks, her heaven is never enough"
is about how he started to think of her when they were older and he found himself developing feelings for her, but realized she never thought she was good enough, and feigned confidence so that no one would see she really had self-esteem issues, and maybe that was why she went into the water.
"She puts the, she puts the weight into my little heart"
He feels unemotional about most things after the trauma of watching one of his closest friends drown and not being able to do anything about it (this is why his heart is little), but when he's here reliving the moment and their past together the memory of her makes his heart feel weighted.
It's a really sad song about friendship and death.
I think it's about a drowning.
Here's the story: he knew this girl when they were kids, and kind of had a crush on her when they were teenagers but they're still just friends. One day they go to the beach, alone or with some other friends, it doesn't matter. There are those signs that say it's dangerous to go in the water, because there are rip tides or something. But she's the typical teenage girl trying to impress someone, and she says she'll be fine and goes in anyway. I feel like this song is set a year or two afterwards, when he's remembering her and what happened.
"I wish I could eat the salt off of your lost faded lips"
Her lips are salty because she drowned in the ocean, and lost and faded because she'd been gone for so long. I would probably interpret it as saying he wishes he could have her back and got the chance to kiss her.
"We can cap the old times, make playing only logical harm We can cap the old lines, make playing that nothing else will change"
Cap, sort of like capture, bring things back to when she was alive. He wants to make playing (like they were playing on the beach before she died) only "logical harm" instead of the physical harm it actually brought to her. He's just being nostalgic about their friendship now that she's gone and he's wishing nothing had changed.
"Well she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad"
This is afterwards when everyone is grieving, and they're all angry and saying that "couldn't she read the signs?!" that said not to go in the water because it was dangerous. He's telling them all that yeah, she read it, she was just too "bad" to care and did it anyway.
"But it's different now that I'm poor and aging I'll never see this face again You'll go stabbing yourself in the neck"
He's probably not actually that old, but he's like a young adult (college age or so, they're always poor) and feels depressed, like he's older than he is. He's probably standing on the beach looking back, thinking about how he'll never see her again and how she really did it to herself (not literally stabbing herself in the neck, but it has the same effect -- she's dead now).
The rest of the song is just his memories of her from when she was still alive. "It's in the way that she poses, it's in the things that she puts in my hair Her stories are boring and stuff, she's always calling my bluff She puts the, she puts the weights in to my little heart and she gets in my room and she takes it apart" is probably her memories of her when they were in elementary school. They had kind of a love/hate relationship back then. She puts weight into his heart because she's always made him feel stronger emotions than anyone else can.
"It's in the way that she walks, her heaven is never enough" is about how he started to think of her when they were older and he found himself developing feelings for her, but realized she never thought she was good enough, and feigned confidence so that no one would see she really had self-esteem issues, and maybe that was why she went into the water.
"She puts the, she puts the weight into my little heart"
He feels unemotional about most things after the trauma of watching one of his closest friends drown and not being able to do anything about it (this is why his heart is little), but when he's here reliving the moment and their past together the memory of her makes his heart feel weighted.
It's a really sad song about friendship and death.