So as far as I can tell the song is roughly about a guy who has given up trying to figure out a way to get the girl back after doing something wrong (cheating maybe?) and is saying "ya know what? If you wanna be with me, you can but I am done trying."
Especially the lines:
"Hold yourself, I'm done. My arms are tired"
"We betray what we can't deny, cuz I believe she needs me"
"just as sad as the words we'd say...it's all gone in an instant"
All of this points to a guy who screwed up but in his mind it wasn't enough to warrant all his begging for her to come back and now he is just done with it.
As a separate point, I am not sure that this isn't an unreliable narrator since some of the lyrics seem to say that he is gonna keep chasing her.
e.g.
"it's just so easy
it's hard
hold me close,
I can't feel you
you'll have to trust me
I can't steal you"
It's just so easy is what he says to himself to leave her. But it's not. Especially the way that it was sang when he did it with Brian, one was singing the first part but both sang the "it's hard"
In any event, just what I am seeing in it (and full disclosure, this is similar to something that happened to me).
So as far as I can tell the song is roughly about a guy who has given up trying to figure out a way to get the girl back after doing something wrong (cheating maybe?) and is saying "ya know what? If you wanna be with me, you can but I am done trying."
Especially the lines: "Hold yourself, I'm done. My arms are tired" "We betray what we can't deny, cuz I believe she needs me" "just as sad as the words we'd say...it's all gone in an instant"
All of this points to a guy who screwed up but in his mind it wasn't enough to warrant all his begging for her to come back and now he is just done with it.
As a separate point, I am not sure that this isn't an unreliable narrator since some of the lyrics seem to say that he is gonna keep chasing her.
e.g. "it's just so easy it's hard
hold me close, I can't feel you you'll have to trust me I can't steal you"
It's just so easy is what he says to himself to leave her. But it's not. Especially the way that it was sang when he did it with Brian, one was singing the first part but both sang the "it's hard"
In any event, just what I am seeing in it (and full disclosure, this is similar to something that happened to me).