I'll give my two cents.
So the way I see it, is that it's about a relationship that was once really great turning into sh*t as a result of the girl avoiding her man; making excuses ("said you stay at home alone with the flu/find out from friends that wasn't true") to do other things, not necessarily cheating but just distancing herself and thus, him feeling at a total loss - he didn't want to be "anyone's ghost" - forgotten about, left longing and wondering like this.
As far as this verse goes;
You said I came close
As anyone has come
To live underwater
For more than a month
You said it was not inside my heart, it was
You said it should tear a kid apart, it does
the way I interpret this is the girl told him he'd been the most important lover she'd ever had and the one she'd been with the longest and uses 'living underwater' as an analogy for being in a relationship with her - she's saying, basically, you're the one who's come close to being with me for longer than a month! I'm kinda interpreting this girl as a bit of a free spirit haha.
The last two (beautiful) lines of that verse to me relate to her perhaps misjudging how he feels about her/them and the situation. She's saying he should care and that it was not inside his heart, to which he replies "it was" and the second line is quite self explanatory in that it's tearing him apart, with the use of "a kid" adding to the fragile, needy person he is in this song. In fact the whole song proves that "you said it should tear a kid apart - it does" is absolutely true.
Ultimately, he doesn't want to let go ("I don't want anybody else")
I'll give my two cents. So the way I see it, is that it's about a relationship that was once really great turning into sh*t as a result of the girl avoiding her man; making excuses ("said you stay at home alone with the flu/find out from friends that wasn't true") to do other things, not necessarily cheating but just distancing herself and thus, him feeling at a total loss - he didn't want to be "anyone's ghost" - forgotten about, left longing and wondering like this.
As far as this verse goes;
You said I came close As anyone has come To live underwater For more than a month You said it was not inside my heart, it was You said it should tear a kid apart, it does
the way I interpret this is the girl told him he'd been the most important lover she'd ever had and the one she'd been with the longest and uses 'living underwater' as an analogy for being in a relationship with her - she's saying, basically, you're the one who's come close to being with me for longer than a month! I'm kinda interpreting this girl as a bit of a free spirit haha. The last two (beautiful) lines of that verse to me relate to her perhaps misjudging how he feels about her/them and the situation. She's saying he should care and that it was not inside his heart, to which he replies "it was" and the second line is quite self explanatory in that it's tearing him apart, with the use of "a kid" adding to the fragile, needy person he is in this song. In fact the whole song proves that "you said it should tear a kid apart - it does" is absolutely true.
Ultimately, he doesn't want to let go ("I don't want anybody else")