i was about to change/but you stayed the same/had pinned against the wall/that we are preordained /if they gave you extra scenes/you'd hit back to main
This verse is fairly simple. The narrator is expecting he will change, but someone else refuses to, making his job of change difficult probably because we depend on each other's existence.
gonna disappear by train/cut my signal chain/find a stable girl/and fill it up again/you can't foresee intent/when the writer writes all bent/armies walk inside/armies walk physically
This verse is an extrapolation on the first verse, and this includes how he will change despite the existence of someone who refuses to. The narrator also includes why he feels the need to change - "you can't forsee intent/when the writer writes all bent" - He did something wrong, according to himself, and he has chosen to rectify the situation - "armies walk inside/armies walk physically". These two lines also develops the first stanza by reporting that his actions to change are public - "armies walk physically" - and they will result in changes in existence.
every day i steal a car/that's how hard it is/to go from where you are
This stanza describes the difficulty of his situation as it is. "every day I steal a car...to go from where you are" - repeating the topic of stature of relationships - how people hold you the way they think you are. But he's also saying he does the work to change himself, ergo change peoples opinion of him.
[repetition of verse 2] ... /we'd like you to leave/coz we've gotta breathe
This expansion describes his appetite for freedom, or at least his appetite for breath. The narrator believes he'd be free, or could at the very least "breathe" if the other person or people he's talking about left him alone.
who's to say/why we're built so strange/disappointing ourselves/before we change?/grass is greener right over here/why do simple things/take so many years?
This verse pisses me off, I guess the entire song pisses me off, though its an important and useful lesson. The narrator is essentially blaming not only himself, but everyone for the strange build of "us" (we) - blaming everyone for "disappointment" when what we want is clear to us - "before we change/grass is greener right over here" - He knows what he wants, at the very least. And to finish it off, "Why do simple things/take so many years" describes once again that there has been a distance between what he wants and what is true.
Honestly, I'd take it as advice... Don't fuck up your life doing or presenting yourself in a way that you don't want to be because other people will recognize it and if you ever want to be the way you want to be, you'll have to cut ties or convince them you've changed.
i was about to change/but you stayed the same/had pinned against the wall/that we are preordained /if they gave you extra scenes/you'd hit back to main
This verse is fairly simple. The narrator is expecting he will change, but someone else refuses to, making his job of change difficult probably because we depend on each other's existence.
gonna disappear by train/cut my signal chain/find a stable girl/and fill it up again/you can't foresee intent/when the writer writes all bent/armies walk inside/armies walk physically This verse is an extrapolation on the first verse, and this includes how he will change despite the existence of someone who refuses to. The narrator also includes why he feels the need to change - "you can't forsee intent/when the writer writes all bent" - He did something wrong, according to himself, and he has chosen to rectify the situation - "armies walk inside/armies walk physically". These two lines also develops the first stanza by reporting that his actions to change are public - "armies walk physically" - and they will result in changes in existence.
every day i steal a car/that's how hard it is/to go from where you are
This stanza describes the difficulty of his situation as it is. "every day I steal a car...to go from where you are" - repeating the topic of stature of relationships - how people hold you the way they think you are. But he's also saying he does the work to change himself, ergo change peoples opinion of him.
[repetition of verse 2] ... /we'd like you to leave/coz we've gotta breathe
This expansion describes his appetite for freedom, or at least his appetite for breath. The narrator believes he'd be free, or could at the very least "breathe" if the other person or people he's talking about left him alone.
who's to say/why we're built so strange/disappointing ourselves/before we change?/grass is greener right over here/why do simple things/take so many years?
This verse pisses me off, I guess the entire song pisses me off, though its an important and useful lesson. The narrator is essentially blaming not only himself, but everyone for the strange build of "us" (we) - blaming everyone for "disappointment" when what we want is clear to us - "before we change/grass is greener right over here" - He knows what he wants, at the very least. And to finish it off, "Why do simple things/take so many years" describes once again that there has been a distance between what he wants and what is true.
Honestly, I'd take it as advice... Don't fuck up your life doing or presenting yourself in a way that you don't want to be because other people will recognize it and if you ever want to be the way you want to be, you'll have to cut ties or convince them you've changed.