to me this song isn't about a romantic relationship, so much as a tight bond that was ruined when someone was betrayed and abandoned, and this is the confrontation as a result. there goes my outfit is like military jargon, there's my new social group or unit, like both people have moved on but one person had come face to face with their former friend and is asking "why didn't you speak up, why didn't you help me?!" clearly there was some expectation of support, and none was given, and it's split these two apart.
I think the first half is them meeting again, and the speaker is beating around the bush, and the approached asks "ok what is it?" which is where you get the 'alright, you've got me, no small talk, had a speech ready, but lets get down to it.' They do a little catching up, and then he lays it out there "You left me there and didn't stand by me and it broke my heart." He doesn't even demand an apology or an explanation, he just wants his friend to admit what happened, and then he's going to go off to his new life with his new 'outfit' of friends.
ah, it's also possible that the first half is the betrayer approaching the betrayed, and the second half is the betrayed getting upset at his former friend trying to make amends. grabbing him by the lapel and telling him what he thinks of him. While the betrayer is saying 'this is my current life', the abandoned friend is saying, in contrast, there goes my former life, like perhaps a mirroring situation. Cut off from the people he trusted, abandoned and undefended by his truest friend, left to be abused and bloodied. It seems to me to be a song about...
ah, it's also possible that the first half is the betrayer approaching the betrayed, and the second half is the betrayed getting upset at his former friend trying to make amends. grabbing him by the lapel and telling him what he thinks of him. While the betrayer is saying 'this is my current life', the abandoned friend is saying, in contrast, there goes my former life, like perhaps a mirroring situation. Cut off from the people he trusted, abandoned and undefended by his truest friend, left to be abused and bloodied. It seems to me to be a song about a break up, but between former comrades.
to me this song isn't about a romantic relationship, so much as a tight bond that was ruined when someone was betrayed and abandoned, and this is the confrontation as a result. there goes my outfit is like military jargon, there's my new social group or unit, like both people have moved on but one person had come face to face with their former friend and is asking "why didn't you speak up, why didn't you help me?!" clearly there was some expectation of support, and none was given, and it's split these two apart.
I think the first half is them meeting again, and the speaker is beating around the bush, and the approached asks "ok what is it?" which is where you get the 'alright, you've got me, no small talk, had a speech ready, but lets get down to it.' They do a little catching up, and then he lays it out there "You left me there and didn't stand by me and it broke my heart." He doesn't even demand an apology or an explanation, he just wants his friend to admit what happened, and then he's going to go off to his new life with his new 'outfit' of friends.
ah, it's also possible that the first half is the betrayer approaching the betrayed, and the second half is the betrayed getting upset at his former friend trying to make amends. grabbing him by the lapel and telling him what he thinks of him. While the betrayer is saying 'this is my current life', the abandoned friend is saying, in contrast, there goes my former life, like perhaps a mirroring situation. Cut off from the people he trusted, abandoned and undefended by his truest friend, left to be abused and bloodied. It seems to me to be a song about...
ah, it's also possible that the first half is the betrayer approaching the betrayed, and the second half is the betrayed getting upset at his former friend trying to make amends. grabbing him by the lapel and telling him what he thinks of him. While the betrayer is saying 'this is my current life', the abandoned friend is saying, in contrast, there goes my former life, like perhaps a mirroring situation. Cut off from the people he trusted, abandoned and undefended by his truest friend, left to be abused and bloodied. It seems to me to be a song about a break up, but between former comrades.