Starting with the music itself screams nostalgia, the echoing of the guitar, everything is really slow with the reverb. And this perfectly mimics the kind of emotions that are associated with a sense of loss, of hopelessness. The vocalists are also speaking to each other in the wind, hoping that that somehow, someway they will hear each other and some kind of real connection or reconciliation can take place... Now for the lyrics themselves...
"After all the time
After you
Had you seen me with someone new
Hanging so high for your return
But the stillness is a burn"
He's wondering if his attempts at forging a new relationship have been noticed and have made any sort of emotional impact on her. He wants her to seduce her, albeit, cruelly by making her feel jealous. However he acknowledges that his attempts so far have been unsuccessful, noting the stillness is a burn. He feels even more hopeless now.
"Had I seen it in your eyes
There'd have been no try after try
Your leaving had no goodbye
Had I just seen one in your eyes"
In this stanza he begins to reminisce. If he had just noticed sooner that she was going to leave, the utter shock of her doing so would not have been as traumatic as it was.
"I can't give it up
To someone else's touch
Because I care too much"
Finally confessing her feelings, she admits that she is still holding on to him and the past. This makes it very difficult for her to move on.
"Could you tell
I was left lost and lonely
Could you tell
Things ain't worked out my way"
"Wish the best for you
Wish the best for me
Wished for infinity
If that ain't me"
He is ready to acknowledge his pain for her at his darkest place without her. He able to see a ray of hope for the both of them, but yet still a sense of regret and almost a sense of martyrdom at the last line, "wished for infinity, if that ain't me". Still, a part of her courses through his veins.
In the next series of lines he repeatedly tells himself to give it up, and she echoes that she cannot give it up. He is trying to force himself to fully move on, just as she realizes that she cannot. In summation, they've both become entrenched in an emotional stalemate with themselves, where it will lead is anyone's guess.
Starting with the music itself screams nostalgia, the echoing of the guitar, everything is really slow with the reverb. And this perfectly mimics the kind of emotions that are associated with a sense of loss, of hopelessness. The vocalists are also speaking to each other in the wind, hoping that that somehow, someway they will hear each other and some kind of real connection or reconciliation can take place... Now for the lyrics themselves...
"After all the time After you Had you seen me with someone new Hanging so high for your return But the stillness is a burn"
He's wondering if his attempts at forging a new relationship have been noticed and have made any sort of emotional impact on her. He wants her to seduce her, albeit, cruelly by making her feel jealous. However he acknowledges that his attempts so far have been unsuccessful, noting the stillness is a burn. He feels even more hopeless now.
"Had I seen it in your eyes There'd have been no try after try Your leaving had no goodbye Had I just seen one in your eyes"
In this stanza he begins to reminisce. If he had just noticed sooner that she was going to leave, the utter shock of her doing so would not have been as traumatic as it was.
"I can't give it up To someone else's touch Because I care too much"
Finally confessing her feelings, she admits that she is still holding on to him and the past. This makes it very difficult for her to move on.
"Could you tell I was left lost and lonely Could you tell Things ain't worked out my way"
"Wish the best for you Wish the best for me Wished for infinity If that ain't me"
He is ready to acknowledge his pain for her at his darkest place without her. He able to see a ray of hope for the both of them, but yet still a sense of regret and almost a sense of martyrdom at the last line, "wished for infinity, if that ain't me". Still, a part of her courses through his veins.
In the next series of lines he repeatedly tells himself to give it up, and she echoes that she cannot give it up. He is trying to force himself to fully move on, just as she realizes that she cannot. In summation, they've both become entrenched in an emotional stalemate with themselves, where it will lead is anyone's guess.