I heard this song on the radio the other day and it reminded me how much I loved it when it first came out. In my opinion, it's not about someone who is cheating or who is still in love with an ex. It's about him being in love with someone who is emotionally unavailable, someone who never fully let him in, someone who always expected too much of him and was never content with the love he gave, they always wanted more and it has drained him of his love for her. It seems like the relationship started off as 'perfect' but has become something else and a darker side of her has emerged ('shouting out is all you know') and he can't keep fighting to make the relationship work when every time he does she finds something else to be unhappy about. A beautiful but tragic song about people that don't know when they've got a good thing going on.
I heard this song on the radio the other day and it reminded me how much I loved it when it first came out. In my opinion, it's not about someone who is cheating or who is still in love with an ex. It's about him being in love with someone who is emotionally unavailable, someone who never fully let him in, someone who always expected too much of him and was never content with the love he gave, they always wanted more and it has drained him of his love for her. It seems like the relationship started off as 'perfect' but has become something else and a darker side of her has emerged ('shouting out is all you know') and he can't keep fighting to make the relationship work when every time he does she finds something else to be unhappy about. A beautiful but tragic song about people that don't know when they've got a good thing going on.