To me, this song is about love unrequited, desire unfulfilled. It will never be fulfilled. I was in love with my best friend my junior year, and even though he was dating someone else, I always thought there was something more that went unsaid between me and him. I might have been fooling myself, but I still to this day don't think our friendship was totally platonic. That's why I related to the words, "codes of silence speak too loud in too many languages."
Unfortunately, the girl he was dating was one of my friends, making him totally off-limits. I tried so hard to stop thinking about him the way I did, but I couldn't. I fell hard for him and I couldn't reverse those feelings. I thought maybe in a different life we would have been together.
"If I
could bend space and time,
would you
think of being mine?"
And of course, he made my heart beat faster just sitting next to me. He used to sit close to me while we did homework, seemingly without thinking anything of it, and I would be sitting next to him, going crazy and trying to hide it. He was my weakness, so the most fitting lyrics for me were,
"...You have starred in all of my daydreams.
Mesmerizing, to your credit my armour's failing.
Take it easy on a heart with trouble inhaling.
Take it easy on my now cause I'm going crazy."
When I first heard this song, it was during that time of my life, and I connected with it because of him. He and I will never be together. I know that. We're attending college in different states and he lives 2000 miles away. But this song will always bring me back to those memories. It's a song of deep longing and confusion. It's about your world being turned upside down by someone you can't have. It's about falling for someone right when you thought you had your heart under control ("an ice age catching fire"), and being surprised at how intensely you can want someone. Charlotte Martin captures that feeling perfectly in this poetic, beautiful song.
To me, this song is about love unrequited, desire unfulfilled. It will never be fulfilled. I was in love with my best friend my junior year, and even though he was dating someone else, I always thought there was something more that went unsaid between me and him. I might have been fooling myself, but I still to this day don't think our friendship was totally platonic. That's why I related to the words, "codes of silence speak too loud in too many languages."
Unfortunately, the girl he was dating was one of my friends, making him totally off-limits. I tried so hard to stop thinking about him the way I did, but I couldn't. I fell hard for him and I couldn't reverse those feelings. I thought maybe in a different life we would have been together. "If I could bend space and time, would you think of being mine?"
And of course, he made my heart beat faster just sitting next to me. He used to sit close to me while we did homework, seemingly without thinking anything of it, and I would be sitting next to him, going crazy and trying to hide it. He was my weakness, so the most fitting lyrics for me were, "...You have starred in all of my daydreams. Mesmerizing, to your credit my armour's failing. Take it easy on a heart with trouble inhaling. Take it easy on my now cause I'm going crazy."
When I first heard this song, it was during that time of my life, and I connected with it because of him. He and I will never be together. I know that. We're attending college in different states and he lives 2000 miles away. But this song will always bring me back to those memories. It's a song of deep longing and confusion. It's about your world being turned upside down by someone you can't have. It's about falling for someone right when you thought you had your heart under control ("an ice age catching fire"), and being surprised at how intensely you can want someone. Charlotte Martin captures that feeling perfectly in this poetic, beautiful song.