Seems, to me, as if the song is about finding someone and then the process of them leaving and how everything they said comes to linger(in the speakers head), even though they are not physically there anymore.
First verse is about coming to know them, love them and ultimately why it will be so difficult to let them go(they're great).
"Fire works at the water"
"You were holy"
"Styrofoam cup held between your teeth
"Telling me how you are going to outlive your body."
Second verse is things getting even more intense and heavy. His intensity is causing him to grip too tight, and it's only pushing her away.The speaker who is "falling", is reading to much into everything and insecurity and doubt is talking him out of living normally.His confidence is ruined and he is struggling to do anything at all.
"Gathering your storm
I talk to fill the space
You know where so and so was, when they were our age?
Every night you seem
To talk me out of everything
Careful what you say next
Don't waste a single drop
What you said I wrote it down
It won't say, it won't speak the same"
The final verse is him recollecting on her now being gone and how he blames her, but knows neither party is really guilty of anything. He fell too hard and should have known better to, not only fall, but to think gripping was the answer to falling and losing love. Now all he is left with is the memories of all their conversation and all the mistakes he perceives he had made. Which is unfortunate because she may have loved him, but just couldn't stay for some reason which has nothing to do with him personally. He is saying he should have known better than to take it personally.
"Careful what you say next
Don't waste a single drop
What you said I wrote it down
It won't say, it won't speak the same
After everything
Left in the sun, shivering
What you said I wrote it down
It won't say, it won't speak the same
Maybe I know better than
To read more than what's there"
Seems, to me, as if the song is about finding someone and then the process of them leaving and how everything they said comes to linger(in the speakers head), even though they are not physically there anymore.
First verse is about coming to know them, love them and ultimately why it will be so difficult to let them go(they're great).
"Fire works at the water" "You were holy" "Styrofoam cup held between your teeth "Telling me how you are going to outlive your body."
Second verse is things getting even more intense and heavy. His intensity is causing him to grip too tight, and it's only pushing her away.The speaker who is "falling", is reading to much into everything and insecurity and doubt is talking him out of living normally.His confidence is ruined and he is struggling to do anything at all.
"Gathering your storm I talk to fill the space You know where so and so was, when they were our age? Every night you seem To talk me out of everything
Careful what you say next Don't waste a single drop What you said I wrote it down It won't say, it won't speak the same"
The final verse is him recollecting on her now being gone and how he blames her, but knows neither party is really guilty of anything. He fell too hard and should have known better to, not only fall, but to think gripping was the answer to falling and losing love. Now all he is left with is the memories of all their conversation and all the mistakes he perceives he had made. Which is unfortunate because she may have loved him, but just couldn't stay for some reason which has nothing to do with him personally. He is saying he should have known better than to take it personally.
"Careful what you say next Don't waste a single drop What you said I wrote it down It won't say, it won't speak the same
After everything Left in the sun, shivering
What you said I wrote it down It won't say, it won't speak the same Maybe I know better than To read more than what's there"
Or, it's aout losing a loved one to illness and death?
Or, it's aout losing a loved one to illness and death?