This is a complicated and beautiful song. I'll try to organize the breakdown chronologically but I am not sure that the song is written in linear time.
With the song and the official video it seems like a straight forward struggle for the love of a woman. He seems to be addressing his foe in the video but if you read the lyrics it seems that he is fighting his lover. He says that "to fight is to defend", but he did not realize that he was supposed to fight to defend the relationship from the anger of his lover. He did not realize that he had to fight her for her love and that "playing it cool" (letting her blow off steam/win) was not what she needed.
"I don't know where the sun beams end and the star
Lights begins it's all a mystery"
Refers to the passage of time and his wondering where it has gone.
The song uses the chorus to show that the singer often revisits his memories of this breakup and that the woman he let go might have been more than just a girlfriend.
He did not fight to keep her, and he regrets not fighting for her as much as he regrets losing her. When he says that he is a man and not a boy, he tells us that he recognizes that he should have been more assertive and his ambivalence about the relationship is gone now that she left him. He wants to try again, but "you're with him now do no good"
Without the opportunity to fight for her, he slips back into indecision. He knows what he has done wrong but he is having trouble changing and moving on. He knows that he needs to stop thinking about her so he tells himself "the test is over, now"
The echo on the "now" feels like the these memories are not over and will continue to haunt him.
This is a great song and I've revisited it for years.
@madscience84 "I don't know where the sun beams end and the star
Lights begins it's all a mystery"
@madscience84 "I don't know where the sun beams end and the star
Lights begins it's all a mystery"
I always thought this is a reflection of how his views changed. He is reflecting in the moment he faced the choice, he was certain it was better to stay cool. But that turned out wrong. Now he's reflecting he should have done the opposite: Lost his cool, demonstrated he loved her, tell her to tell the other guy to get lost and pick him. Fight for her. But in the time, not fighting was choice that was clear as...
I always thought this is a reflection of how his views changed. He is reflecting in the moment he faced the choice, he was certain it was better to stay cool. But that turned out wrong. Now he's reflecting he should have done the opposite: Lost his cool, demonstrated he loved her, tell her to tell the other guy to get lost and pick him. Fight for her. But in the time, not fighting was choice that was clear as night and day to him. Now he can't trust himself to tell starlight from sunlight. Night is day, day is night and he's lost his confidence in even making the right choices anymore.
This is a complicated and beautiful song. I'll try to organize the breakdown chronologically but I am not sure that the song is written in linear time.
With the song and the official video it seems like a straight forward struggle for the love of a woman. He seems to be addressing his foe in the video but if you read the lyrics it seems that he is fighting his lover. He says that "to fight is to defend", but he did not realize that he was supposed to fight to defend the relationship from the anger of his lover. He did not realize that he had to fight her for her love and that "playing it cool" (letting her blow off steam/win) was not what she needed.
"I don't know where the sun beams end and the star Lights begins it's all a mystery"
Refers to the passage of time and his wondering where it has gone.
The song uses the chorus to show that the singer often revisits his memories of this breakup and that the woman he let go might have been more than just a girlfriend.
He did not fight to keep her, and he regrets not fighting for her as much as he regrets losing her. When he says that he is a man and not a boy, he tells us that he recognizes that he should have been more assertive and his ambivalence about the relationship is gone now that she left him. He wants to try again, but "you're with him now do no good"
Without the opportunity to fight for her, he slips back into indecision. He knows what he has done wrong but he is having trouble changing and moving on. He knows that he needs to stop thinking about her so he tells himself "the test is over, now"
The echo on the "now" feels like the these memories are not over and will continue to haunt him.
This is a great song and I've revisited it for years.
@madscience84 "I don't know where the sun beams end and the star Lights begins it's all a mystery"
@madscience84 "I don't know where the sun beams end and the star Lights begins it's all a mystery"
I always thought this is a reflection of how his views changed. He is reflecting in the moment he faced the choice, he was certain it was better to stay cool. But that turned out wrong. Now he's reflecting he should have done the opposite: Lost his cool, demonstrated he loved her, tell her to tell the other guy to get lost and pick him. Fight for her. But in the time, not fighting was choice that was clear as...
I always thought this is a reflection of how his views changed. He is reflecting in the moment he faced the choice, he was certain it was better to stay cool. But that turned out wrong. Now he's reflecting he should have done the opposite: Lost his cool, demonstrated he loved her, tell her to tell the other guy to get lost and pick him. Fight for her. But in the time, not fighting was choice that was clear as night and day to him. Now he can't trust himself to tell starlight from sunlight. Night is day, day is night and he's lost his confidence in even making the right choices anymore.